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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Consolidation of the Tower of Matrera Castle in Cádiz, Spain by Carquero ArquitecturaApril 3rd, 2016 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Carquero Arquitectura After the partial collapse that this medieval tower suffered, being a historical landmark for its strategic position in the latest “Nazari” border through the Valley of Guadalete, where it´s cut with Bética range, we project the consolidation of this landscape icon that lost part of its imposing volume, leaving at risk the stability of the rest popup, removing with it not only part from the architectural element, but also the landscape reference of a landmark very linked with the iconography and culture of the region.Being cultural modals and emblems of our own cities and territories, the crisis has done that they succumb in the abandon for the own economic disinterest that carries his maintenance.  Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco
 Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco For the buttresses that guarantee its stability and for the reinforcements/protections of the internal degraded cores that they had lost their exterior stonework, we re-use the same limestone collapsed.The top is executed in order to consolidate the slender wall that it remained after the collapse and that was traversing a serious risk of overturn, removed the flesh in its exterior face and in that the original white covering remains in its interior face as well as an interesting fresco painting of a boat in tonality ocher. All the edges have rethought from the details of geometric existing elements to mark its original volume.  Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco  Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco This intervention sought to achieve three basic objectives: to structurally consolidate the elements that were at risk; to differentiate the additions from the original structure (avoiding the mimetic reconstructions that our law prohibits) and to recover the volume, texture and tonality that the tower originally had (some little surfaces still remain). The essence of the project is not intended to be, therefore, an image of the future, but rather a reflection of its own past, its own origin.  Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco  Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco In parallel with the practice in intervention of movable heritage, its historical value is enhanced, facing its original volume using a continuous coating (lime mortar) similar to that originally covered it, which clogs the gap and allows reading of architectural recessed unit. Likewise the upper casing defines its construction phases enhancing the original battlements shots that were hidden behind their stratigraphic superposition.  Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco  Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco With brandian reference, this project aims to look at the potential restoration of unity without undertaking a historic monument false or cancel every trace of the passage in time. It tries to approach the work in recognition of the “monumentum” (memory) in its physical consistency and its dual polarity, aesthetic and historical, in order to transmit to the future.  Image Courtesy © Mariano Copete Franco  Image Courtesy © Carquero Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Carquero Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Carquero Arquitectura  Image Courtesy © Carquero Arquitectura
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