ArchShowcase 
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. Compás de las Ánimas y del Nazareno in Málaga, Spain by Waterscales architectsJanuary 27th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Waterscales architects About the place and the intervention Álora is placed as a bow of the mountainous landscape of Sierra del Hacho facing to the coast of Málaga and the Valley of Guadalhorce. One of its Its main highlights is its Castle surrounded by an ancient Arrabal (arab quarter). The village has a rich and interesting history related to the Moorish defence against the Catholics and about the beginings of the malagueña, a kind of flamenco song.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda
 Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda
 Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda It took place an architectural competition for refurbishing and renovating the castle surroundings in order to renovate public facilities as well as attract new travellers. We purposed an intervention called “tapestry scale 1:1” which captures the energy of its landscape. It would be a kind of stone map which would help the visitant to see, discover, know and experience the cultural landscape. The first phase of the complete intervention has been a small square called Compás de las Ánimas y del Nazareno.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda Compás de las Ánimas y del Nazareno It occupies the place of two ancient dwellings. It would be used as a compás (open air place for waiting or resting). It takes the name from the religious images guarded in the Chapel of the Castle: the Virgen de las Ánimas and Jesús Nazareno de las Torres. Their street processions take place on Holy Friday during Easter and stop in the front of the compás. Thus, the space, during Easter, would be like a tribune.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda Thanks to its textures, colours, aromas, texts and pavements, it shows its domestic past, underline its religious present and offers itself to the meeting of inhabitants and travellers. In its walls some texts tell the amazing discovering of the thrones. The “fountain of the souls”, pilar de las Ánimas, it’s a spring which blows water through the eroded stone. The slope is used for creating long stone benches surrounded by aromatic plants. It finishes in a stair seeming a floating carpet which takes us to an upper belvedere to the Valley of Guadalhorce. The materials are used following their own truth. We would like having captured a bit of the essence of the rich history of the cultural landscape of Álora.  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Fernando Alda  Image Courtesy © Waterscales architects  Image Courtesy © Waterscales architects  Image Courtesy © Waterscales architects  Image Courtesy © Waterscales architects  Image Courtesy © Waterscales architects  Image Courtesy © Waterscales architects  Image Courtesy © Waterscales architects
Contact Waterscales architects
Categories: Intervention, Renovation |
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||
|
|||||
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
