Landscape echoes
Basic information
Project Title
Landscape echoes
Full project title
Landscape echoes, sport high performance centre and mountain school in Sierra Nevada
Category
Prioritising the places and people that need it the most
Project Description
The project is evidenced as a narrative itinerary configured by a network of pre-existing nature paths capable of activating the resonance spaces that form the project, allowing the genius loci to be understood through a balance of artificial and natural rhythms.
The fragmentation of the identity of the place becomes the guiding thread of the educational nature of the project, where natural heritage, sustainability and accessibility challenge the limits of the built in high mountains.
The fragmentation of the identity of the place becomes the guiding thread of the educational nature of the project, where natural heritage, sustainability and accessibility challenge the limits of the built in high mountains.
Geographical Scope
Local
Project Region
Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain
Urban or rural issues
Mainly rural
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
EU Programme or fund
No
Description of the project
Summary
The project is a firm commitment to integrate the values and principles of the new European bauhaus where natural and artificial rhythms complement each other, creating a set of accessible and sustainable measures based on self-consumption and raising awareness in local communities of the importance of natural heritage through the educational capacity of architecture.
The proposal intervenes in peri-urban landscapes degraded by speculative tourism, where the natural heritage is at urgent risk of disappearing. The project is conceived as a flexible self-consumption space thanks to the independence of the constructive layers for the needs of local communities.
Objectives
1) To educate through narrative itineraries in fragmented peri-urban landscapes.
2) To use nature as a source of energy integrated into the architectural design.
3) To establish a model for the development of accessible measures in natural heritage.
4) Reduce the footprint of architecture on the landscape and integrate a responsible life cycle, allowing a second life adapted to the needs of local communities.
5) Promote a circular economic model based on self-consumption in architecture.
Outcomes
The project demonstrates the capacity of architecture as an educational tool in peri-urban landscapes fragmented by speculative activity, where nature and economy can, through architectural design, make local communities participate in their connection with nature. Through a project that barely rests on the landscape, a reversible construction model is defined, reducing the impact on the landscape and integrating nature as a source of energy to establish a circular and self-consumption economic model in extreme climates.
The proposal intervenes in peri-urban landscapes degraded by speculative tourism, where the natural heritage is at urgent risk of disappearing. The project is conceived as a flexible self-consumption space thanks to the independence of the constructive layers for the needs of local communities.
Objectives
1) To educate through narrative itineraries in fragmented peri-urban landscapes.
2) To use nature as a source of energy integrated into the architectural design.
3) To establish a model for the development of accessible measures in natural heritage.
4) Reduce the footprint of architecture on the landscape and integrate a responsible life cycle, allowing a second life adapted to the needs of local communities.
5) Promote a circular economic model based on self-consumption in architecture.
Outcomes
The project demonstrates the capacity of architecture as an educational tool in peri-urban landscapes fragmented by speculative activity, where nature and economy can, through architectural design, make local communities participate in their connection with nature. Through a project that barely rests on the landscape, a reversible construction model is defined, reducing the impact on the landscape and integrating nature as a source of energy to establish a circular and self-consumption economic model in extreme climates.
Key objectives for sustainability
The project implements bioclimatic and environmental design measures that are totally disruptive today.
Key objectives:
1) Study the climatic conditions of the site, optimising them through architecture-nature interaction, without mechanical equipment, as an integrated part of the architectural design.
2) Interaction of wind with architecture by creating adiabatic cooling devices and greenhouse effect capable of modifying the sensible temperature in a natural way through architectural design in favour of the inhabitant, adapting the temperature to the season.
2) To reduce the impact on the natural heritage as much as possible, avoiding the degradation of the orography.
3) To optimise the self-consumption of water in extreme climates by reusing runoff water due to the slopes of the topography and rainwater by storing it for subsequent treatment with the project's sanitary equipment, reusing this water in the project.
4) Integrate renewable photovoltaic and wind energy sources into the architectural design.
5) The electricity obtained from renewable energy sources feeds the entire consumption of the building, oversizing the installation to convert the architecture into a profitable economic agent through the sale of surpluses to achieve its proper maintenance.
6) The construction systems comply with passivehaus standards, incorporating local and sustainable materials with a high degree of sustainability.
7) Knowledge of the various life cycles of the construction layers enables the integration of reversible construction systems to optimise maintenance and flexibility.
8) Evidencing the timeless value of the landscape through the temporality of the architecture, by managing the life cycle of the architecture and its ephemeral nature, adapted to future needs.
The project is exemplary due to the use of technology and vernacular architecture, counteracting the weaknesses of the site, managing to integrate the local popular culture.
Key objectives:
1) Study the climatic conditions of the site, optimising them through architecture-nature interaction, without mechanical equipment, as an integrated part of the architectural design.
2) Interaction of wind with architecture by creating adiabatic cooling devices and greenhouse effect capable of modifying the sensible temperature in a natural way through architectural design in favour of the inhabitant, adapting the temperature to the season.
2) To reduce the impact on the natural heritage as much as possible, avoiding the degradation of the orography.
3) To optimise the self-consumption of water in extreme climates by reusing runoff water due to the slopes of the topography and rainwater by storing it for subsequent treatment with the project's sanitary equipment, reusing this water in the project.
4) Integrate renewable photovoltaic and wind energy sources into the architectural design.
5) The electricity obtained from renewable energy sources feeds the entire consumption of the building, oversizing the installation to convert the architecture into a profitable economic agent through the sale of surpluses to achieve its proper maintenance.
6) The construction systems comply with passivehaus standards, incorporating local and sustainable materials with a high degree of sustainability.
7) Knowledge of the various life cycles of the construction layers enables the integration of reversible construction systems to optimise maintenance and flexibility.
8) Evidencing the timeless value of the landscape through the temporality of the architecture, by managing the life cycle of the architecture and its ephemeral nature, adapted to future needs.
The project is exemplary due to the use of technology and vernacular architecture, counteracting the weaknesses of the site, managing to integrate the local popular culture.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
The building is based on the premise of relating technology and context, thus adapting sustainable and high-tech principles to the popular vernacular architecture of high mountain refuges.
- The different user profiles and their mobility flows are studied with the aim of relating the dimensions by reinterpreting the connection between nature and human beings.
- The linear composition of the project is an opportunity to integrate visual relations with the landscape and adapt to the existing topography reducing the environmental impact.
- The flexibility of use emphasises the public character of the project in view of the lack of facilities in the adjacent urban centre.
- Slow and agile mobilities are generated, creating a continuity with the paths.
- Water is used as an architectural resource in context with the site.
- Horizontality is given priority over verticality in the landscape, creating a unique luminosity.
- The project programme aims to generate interest for the user in the summer season, balancing the seasonal overcrowding.
Form and function
The exterior envelope synthesises the fundamental premises of the high mountain: to protect and evacuate, an element that catalyses natural and artificial rhythms. At the same time, this envelope is triangulated, allowing the structural and thermal stability of the complex, configuring a free height adapted to the use.
Materiality
The envelope allows a contemporary reading of the changing texture of the landscape, highlighting the snow and slate, adding lightness to the massiveness of the programme of needs. In this way, the zinc allows the reflected light to be reinterpreted.
At the same time, the semi-circular configuration of the roof creates layers of snow integrated into the landscape. The idea is to generate a project that is materially mutable with the landscape without losing its relationship with it, both in winter and in summer. It is worth highlighting the materialisation of the wind.
- The different user profiles and their mobility flows are studied with the aim of relating the dimensions by reinterpreting the connection between nature and human beings.
- The linear composition of the project is an opportunity to integrate visual relations with the landscape and adapt to the existing topography reducing the environmental impact.
- The flexibility of use emphasises the public character of the project in view of the lack of facilities in the adjacent urban centre.
- Slow and agile mobilities are generated, creating a continuity with the paths.
- Water is used as an architectural resource in context with the site.
- Horizontality is given priority over verticality in the landscape, creating a unique luminosity.
- The project programme aims to generate interest for the user in the summer season, balancing the seasonal overcrowding.
Form and function
The exterior envelope synthesises the fundamental premises of the high mountain: to protect and evacuate, an element that catalyses natural and artificial rhythms. At the same time, this envelope is triangulated, allowing the structural and thermal stability of the complex, configuring a free height adapted to the use.
Materiality
The envelope allows a contemporary reading of the changing texture of the landscape, highlighting the snow and slate, adding lightness to the massiveness of the programme of needs. In this way, the zinc allows the reflected light to be reinterpreted.
At the same time, the semi-circular configuration of the roof creates layers of snow integrated into the landscape. The idea is to generate a project that is materially mutable with the landscape without losing its relationship with it, both in winter and in summer. It is worth highlighting the materialisation of the wind.
Key objectives for inclusion
The project is located in Sierra Nevada, at an altitude of 2600m, the road adjacent to the project is the highest road in Europe, which allows to extend the imagined limits of accessibility in the architecture, being a fundamental premise through the following project decisions:
- Accessibility by means of road access using pre-existing mobility.
- Existence of public transport by means of the existing chairlift, connection at less than 200m. Improvement of urban-rural connectivity with minimal environmental impact.
- Accentuate the access parts by detaching them from the exterior envelope to improve accessibility in extreme high mountain climates.
- Dimensioning all spaces for people with reduced mobility.
- The project is understood as a continuity of the pre-existing paths through ramps, creating accessible itineraries throughout the project.
- Direct road access to all the rooms, with an electric recharging point.
- The accesses to the rooms are through recessed doors, facilitating evacuation in case of emergency.
- The zinc strips before the monomaterial allow blind people to find their way around the project.
- The visual relationship with the landscape improves the mental health of the users.
- The creation of abundant public spaces allows generational interaction of local communities.
- Windbreaks are produced throughout to minimise thermal bridges.
Inclusive and independent economic model
The project's proposal to turn architecture into an economic production device, allowing independence from supply networks and its own economic management to maintain the building and study possible future modifications.
Innovative social model
Architecture is conceived as a flexible tool adapted to the future needs of local communities through its connection with nature. It is ephemeral and constantly adapting, providing an economic return.
- Accessibility by means of road access using pre-existing mobility.
- Existence of public transport by means of the existing chairlift, connection at less than 200m. Improvement of urban-rural connectivity with minimal environmental impact.
- Accentuate the access parts by detaching them from the exterior envelope to improve accessibility in extreme high mountain climates.
- Dimensioning all spaces for people with reduced mobility.
- The project is understood as a continuity of the pre-existing paths through ramps, creating accessible itineraries throughout the project.
- Direct road access to all the rooms, with an electric recharging point.
- The accesses to the rooms are through recessed doors, facilitating evacuation in case of emergency.
- The zinc strips before the monomaterial allow blind people to find their way around the project.
- The visual relationship with the landscape improves the mental health of the users.
- The creation of abundant public spaces allows generational interaction of local communities.
- Windbreaks are produced throughout to minimise thermal bridges.
Inclusive and independent economic model
The project's proposal to turn architecture into an economic production device, allowing independence from supply networks and its own economic management to maintain the building and study possible future modifications.
Innovative social model
Architecture is conceived as a flexible tool adapted to the future needs of local communities through its connection with nature. It is ephemeral and constantly adapting, providing an economic return.
How Citizens benefit
The project is an educational tool through the routes and the relationship between the natural and artificial facets of the landscape. In addition, basic public facilities are promoted to provide users with assistance in the event of an emergency, due to the lack of facilities in the urban centre:
- The types of users and their flows are analysed, given that there are hikers and skiers in the area. Based on these analyses, the slow and agile parts and routes are positioned to integrate the project as a space for the relationship between the two.
- The project is provided with public space due to the existence of many tourists and local communities.
- Due to the risk of accidents in natural environments by skiers, hikers or local families, the project is provided with medical assistance.
- The project is provided with semi-public accommodation due to the risk of freezing in winter.
- The project reflects on the degradation of the natural landscape and is an educational tool for local communities.
- The mountain school allows tourists and local families to learn more about the integrity of the landscape and its natural processes, being valid in summer or winter, reducing the effects of seasonal tourism in high mountain areas.
- The project provides an opportunity for people with reduced mobility due to the full accessibility proposed by the design, the impact of its inclusion is to expand the boundaries in natural environments where architecture is key to ensure accessibility due to the topography.
- The use of local materials has an economic impact on local communities. In addition to creating emotional links to the project.
-Future uses of deconstruction and adaptation of the project allow the project to be adapted to possible shelters for local communities.
- Understanding architecture as an economic tool for self-consumption allows local communities an economic return and better maintenance of the building.
- The types of users and their flows are analysed, given that there are hikers and skiers in the area. Based on these analyses, the slow and agile parts and routes are positioned to integrate the project as a space for the relationship between the two.
- The project is provided with public space due to the existence of many tourists and local communities.
- Due to the risk of accidents in natural environments by skiers, hikers or local families, the project is provided with medical assistance.
- The project is provided with semi-public accommodation due to the risk of freezing in winter.
- The project reflects on the degradation of the natural landscape and is an educational tool for local communities.
- The mountain school allows tourists and local families to learn more about the integrity of the landscape and its natural processes, being valid in summer or winter, reducing the effects of seasonal tourism in high mountain areas.
- The project provides an opportunity for people with reduced mobility due to the full accessibility proposed by the design, the impact of its inclusion is to expand the boundaries in natural environments where architecture is key to ensure accessibility due to the topography.
- The use of local materials has an economic impact on local communities. In addition to creating emotional links to the project.
-Future uses of deconstruction and adaptation of the project allow the project to be adapted to possible shelters for local communities.
- Understanding architecture as an economic tool for self-consumption allows local communities an economic return and better maintenance of the building.
Physical or other transformations
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Innovative character
The project is a research in itself, where the future way of designing is considered through reflection on: the footprint of architecture, the inclusion of people and cultural traditions, architecture as an educational tool for connecting with nature and the integration of sustainable measures in architectural design. The following innovative aspects are identified:
1) The prevailing high mountain wind is used as an architectural resource to modify the sensible temperature according to the season, improving habitability. In this way, the weaknesses of the site are turned into strengths.
2) The project rises out of the landscape and applies agricultural principles to reduce its environmental footprint.
3) Total accessibility is achieved in the natural heritage at an altitude of 2600m, making it a world reference. In addition, the accessible itineraries show continuity with the pre-existing trails.
4) The project is profoundly innovative, achieving an integration of renewable systems in the architectural design itself, and not as an annex to it.
5) The project is born as an educational tool in the landscape, putting in relation the natural facet with the artificial one.
6) The independence of the constructive layers and the deconstruction of the architecture shows a before and after in the passage from theory to practice.
7) Relationship between technology and context, achieving a vernacular aesthetic in context with the traditions of the place and the pre-existing high mountain architecture, innovating with respect to the contemporary alpine aesthetics of Northern Europe that treat mountain architecture as an object alien to the landscape.
8) Integration of the architecture and the performance of photovoltaic and wind power plants in a single element, proposing a new economic model of self-consumption that allows the autonomous economic management of the building.
1) The prevailing high mountain wind is used as an architectural resource to modify the sensible temperature according to the season, improving habitability. In this way, the weaknesses of the site are turned into strengths.
2) The project rises out of the landscape and applies agricultural principles to reduce its environmental footprint.
3) Total accessibility is achieved in the natural heritage at an altitude of 2600m, making it a world reference. In addition, the accessible itineraries show continuity with the pre-existing trails.
4) The project is profoundly innovative, achieving an integration of renewable systems in the architectural design itself, and not as an annex to it.
5) The project is born as an educational tool in the landscape, putting in relation the natural facet with the artificial one.
6) The independence of the constructive layers and the deconstruction of the architecture shows a before and after in the passage from theory to practice.
7) Relationship between technology and context, achieving a vernacular aesthetic in context with the traditions of the place and the pre-existing high mountain architecture, innovating with respect to the contemporary alpine aesthetics of Northern Europe that treat mountain architecture as an object alien to the landscape.
8) Integration of the architecture and the performance of photovoltaic and wind power plants in a single element, proposing a new economic model of self-consumption that allows the autonomous economic management of the building.
Disciplines/knowledge reflected
In order to achieve the independence of the construction layers and a sustainable and economical self-consumption system through architecture in a high mountain climate, local experience is combined with academic disciplines from different fields, making the project a transdisciplinary milestone.
Branches of knowledge outside the field of architecture:
- Physics: in order to achieve the interaction of the building with nature through architectural design, a large number of physical effects have been applied, such as adiabatic cooling or the greenhouse effect. In addition, in order to understand the physical dynamics in high mountains, it was essential to know about the foehn effect, among other things.
- Engineering: the act of lifting the project from the ground, achieving the independence of the construction layers through reversible connections and integrating the dynamic effects of nature into the project, as well as the implementation of renewable energy sources, would not have been possible without a great deal of technical knowledge of each specialisation in the relevant engineering fields.
- Economy: The proposal of a sustainable economic model through renewable energies is due to economic agreements with the energy companies and an understanding of the building costs.
- Agriculture: in order to achieve the independence of the building layers without damaging the landscape, systems used in agriculture have been employed, such as water storage by gravity and reversible PVC fabrics.
- Experience of local communities: without a doubt, the greatest of the knowledge applied is the development over the centuries by local high mountain communities through primitive shelters, measures such as: the protection of the exterior envelope, the positioning of windbreaks or the marking of accesses in the event of snow storms.
Branches of knowledge outside the field of architecture:
- Physics: in order to achieve the interaction of the building with nature through architectural design, a large number of physical effects have been applied, such as adiabatic cooling or the greenhouse effect. In addition, in order to understand the physical dynamics in high mountains, it was essential to know about the foehn effect, among other things.
- Engineering: the act of lifting the project from the ground, achieving the independence of the construction layers through reversible connections and integrating the dynamic effects of nature into the project, as well as the implementation of renewable energy sources, would not have been possible without a great deal of technical knowledge of each specialisation in the relevant engineering fields.
- Economy: The proposal of a sustainable economic model through renewable energies is due to economic agreements with the energy companies and an understanding of the building costs.
- Agriculture: in order to achieve the independence of the building layers without damaging the landscape, systems used in agriculture have been employed, such as water storage by gravity and reversible PVC fabrics.
- Experience of local communities: without a doubt, the greatest of the knowledge applied is the development over the centuries by local high mountain communities through primitive shelters, measures such as: the protection of the exterior envelope, the positioning of windbreaks or the marking of accesses in the event of snow storms.
Methodology used
1) Understanding the landscape as a project: the fragmentation of the landscape identity caused by tourist overcrowding produces an alteration of the natural habitat. The project is conceived as an educational tool to give relevance to the Sierra Nevada National Park through the language of the traces of the landscape and the local traditional culture, integrating the economic focus of the ski resort. For this reason:
- The natural boundary between both dimensions is sought through the pinching of contour lines.
- The different user profiles and their mobility flows are studied with the aim of relating the dimensions by reinterpreting the connection between nature and human beings.
- The climatic conditions of the site and its seasonal dynamics are studied.
2) Understanding the project as a landscape: the project is located on a hill, dividing its programme into slopes. The natural one, where the technical centre is located, and the artificial one, where the ski resort is located, generating a reverberation between both dimensions, configuring a narrative itinerary based on the pre-existing paths. Thus a building-landscape emerges. Therefore:
- Visual relations to the landscape predominate the proposal.
- It is worth highlighting the accessibility by means of road access using the pre-existing mobility. - The flexibility of use emphasises the public nature of the project in view of the lack of facilities in the urban core.
- Slow and agile mobility is generated by creating continuity with the paths.
- Water is used as an architectural resource in context with the site.
- Horizontality is given priority over verticality in the landscape, creating a unique luminosity.
- The materiality of the project is integrated through a contemporary language to the seasonal changes and materials of the place.
- Integration of renewable energy sources in the project, avoiding visual noise.
- The natural boundary between both dimensions is sought through the pinching of contour lines.
- The different user profiles and their mobility flows are studied with the aim of relating the dimensions by reinterpreting the connection between nature and human beings.
- The climatic conditions of the site and its seasonal dynamics are studied.
2) Understanding the project as a landscape: the project is located on a hill, dividing its programme into slopes. The natural one, where the technical centre is located, and the artificial one, where the ski resort is located, generating a reverberation between both dimensions, configuring a narrative itinerary based on the pre-existing paths. Thus a building-landscape emerges. Therefore:
- Visual relations to the landscape predominate the proposal.
- It is worth highlighting the accessibility by means of road access using the pre-existing mobility. - The flexibility of use emphasises the public nature of the project in view of the lack of facilities in the urban core.
- Slow and agile mobility is generated by creating continuity with the paths.
- Water is used as an architectural resource in context with the site.
- Horizontality is given priority over verticality in the landscape, creating a unique luminosity.
- The materiality of the project is integrated through a contemporary language to the seasonal changes and materials of the place.
- Integration of renewable energy sources in the project, avoiding visual noise.
How stakeholders are engaged
Europe:
A) The current Sierra Nevada Action Plan 2019-2023 is supported by the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism, which brings the natural and cultural heritage closer to groups with special needs and disseminates the values of the National Park, also supporting socio-economic development.
B) NextGeneration funds help to finance quality building systems and a large part of the self-consumption system through renewable energies, making it possible to expand the limits of sustainable architecture and its connection with nature in extreme climates.
Spain:
The landscape area adjacent to the project is included in the list of national park, being protected by Law 2/89, without this protection it would be impossible to guarantee the protection of the biodiversity and habitats of the site.
Local:
The province of Granada allocates a large part of investment to improve infrastructure in order to connect different points of the province to the Sierra Nevada as a natural attraction. This allows for a large amount of public transport to ensure accessibility and to guarantee the ski resort as a tourist focus increasing the reach and awareness of the project.
My participation:
The architectural project favours sustainable tourism and responds to the needs of the place and the people, through a proposal to recover traditions and knowledge of high mountains adapted to contemporary society and favour the inclusion of people in a climate as extreme as the high mountains. The project is characterised by linking natural and artificial rhythms in an unprecedented architectural development through knowledge of the needs of the place.
A) The current Sierra Nevada Action Plan 2019-2023 is supported by the European Charter for Sustainable Tourism, which brings the natural and cultural heritage closer to groups with special needs and disseminates the values of the National Park, also supporting socio-economic development.
B) NextGeneration funds help to finance quality building systems and a large part of the self-consumption system through renewable energies, making it possible to expand the limits of sustainable architecture and its connection with nature in extreme climates.
Spain:
The landscape area adjacent to the project is included in the list of national park, being protected by Law 2/89, without this protection it would be impossible to guarantee the protection of the biodiversity and habitats of the site.
Local:
The province of Granada allocates a large part of investment to improve infrastructure in order to connect different points of the province to the Sierra Nevada as a natural attraction. This allows for a large amount of public transport to ensure accessibility and to guarantee the ski resort as a tourist focus increasing the reach and awareness of the project.
My participation:
The architectural project favours sustainable tourism and responds to the needs of the place and the people, through a proposal to recover traditions and knowledge of high mountains adapted to contemporary society and favour the inclusion of people in a climate as extreme as the high mountains. The project is characterised by linking natural and artificial rhythms in an unprecedented architectural development through knowledge of the needs of the place.
Global challenges
The solutions provided to global challenges are justified on the basis of the criteria of the 2030 goals covered in the project:
3) Health and wellbeing: increasing the habitability of architecture and increasing wellbeing in extreme places thanks to the integration of natural processes in architecture.
4) Quality education: use of architecture as an educational tool capable of integrating fragmented territories.
5) Gender equality: The project is exemplary in terms of equality and inclusion.
6) Clean water and sanitation: the project achieves self-management of water, reducing costs and increasing water supply in places of extreme need and difficult supply through local solutions.
7) Affordable and clean energy: Exemplary project in terms of sustainable materials and integration of renewable sources in the architecture.
9) Industry, innovation and infrastructures: development of innovative architectural solutions through cross-disciplinary knowledge.
10) Reduction of inequalities: The project is exemplary in terms of equality and inclusion, enabling people with reduced mobility to access natural heritage.
11) Sustainable cities and communities: definition of a self-sustainable and responsible project with the environment and local culture and tradition in extreme climates.
12) Responsible production and consumption: independence of construction layers, applying local and sustainable materials.
13) Climate action: bioclimatic and environmental design, integrating natural and artificial rhythms with respect to the landscape. Innovative renewable energy sources are applied.
15) Ecosystem living: the project integrates the natural processes of the landscape to generate a building that respects the environment, emphasising local ecosystems.
17) Partnerships to achieve objectives: integration of the different landscape realities and users based on respect for the landscape and the promotion of its natural facet in extreme climates.
3) Health and wellbeing: increasing the habitability of architecture and increasing wellbeing in extreme places thanks to the integration of natural processes in architecture.
4) Quality education: use of architecture as an educational tool capable of integrating fragmented territories.
5) Gender equality: The project is exemplary in terms of equality and inclusion.
6) Clean water and sanitation: the project achieves self-management of water, reducing costs and increasing water supply in places of extreme need and difficult supply through local solutions.
7) Affordable and clean energy: Exemplary project in terms of sustainable materials and integration of renewable sources in the architecture.
9) Industry, innovation and infrastructures: development of innovative architectural solutions through cross-disciplinary knowledge.
10) Reduction of inequalities: The project is exemplary in terms of equality and inclusion, enabling people with reduced mobility to access natural heritage.
11) Sustainable cities and communities: definition of a self-sustainable and responsible project with the environment and local culture and tradition in extreme climates.
12) Responsible production and consumption: independence of construction layers, applying local and sustainable materials.
13) Climate action: bioclimatic and environmental design, integrating natural and artificial rhythms with respect to the landscape. Innovative renewable energy sources are applied.
15) Ecosystem living: the project integrates the natural processes of the landscape to generate a building that respects the environment, emphasising local ecosystems.
17) Partnerships to achieve objectives: integration of the different landscape realities and users based on respect for the landscape and the promotion of its natural facet in extreme climates.
Learning transferred to other parties
1) The methodology for detecting and analysing landscape fragmentation based on knowledge of cultural tradition and the reading of traces in the landscape.
2) Accessibility measures in the natural heritage, both in architecture and in its integration into the landscape.
3) The new economic model of self-consumption is proposed as an exemplary measure of integration between energy production through renewable sources and architecture, highly transferable to any other place with similar sunlight conditions.
4) The connection of natural rhythms in architecture through its integration in bioclimatic design, improving the habitat in extreme situations in a natural way and due to the conditioning factors of the environment.
5) Measures applied to the management of the life cycle of the constructive layers through their independence, as well as the constructive systems provided through technical details.
6) Thinking about the educational role of architecture and its integrative character in degraded places and for people in need.
7) Use of local and sustainable materials in future constructions.
8) Implementation of a contextual high-tech architectural aesthetic, through the analysis and knowledge of places and the knowledge of traditional architecture.
9) Self-management systems for water and electricity in rural areas.
10) Positioning of multi-purpose and public spaces of primary need (rest and medical) in rural areas with extreme climates due to the lack of nearby facilities to cover emergency needs.
2) Accessibility measures in the natural heritage, both in architecture and in its integration into the landscape.
3) The new economic model of self-consumption is proposed as an exemplary measure of integration between energy production through renewable sources and architecture, highly transferable to any other place with similar sunlight conditions.
4) The connection of natural rhythms in architecture through its integration in bioclimatic design, improving the habitat in extreme situations in a natural way and due to the conditioning factors of the environment.
5) Measures applied to the management of the life cycle of the constructive layers through their independence, as well as the constructive systems provided through technical details.
6) Thinking about the educational role of architecture and its integrative character in degraded places and for people in need.
7) Use of local and sustainable materials in future constructions.
8) Implementation of a contextual high-tech architectural aesthetic, through the analysis and knowledge of places and the knowledge of traditional architecture.
9) Self-management systems for water and electricity in rural areas.
10) Positioning of multi-purpose and public spaces of primary need (rest and medical) in rural areas with extreme climates due to the lack of nearby facilities to cover emergency needs.
Keywords
Sustainability
Accessibility
Circular economy
Educational narratives
Landscape identities
