NO.28.

Memory Garden in Vinaròs, Spain, 2015

•Architects: Camilla Mileto, Fernando Vegas
•Location: Carrer de Sant Francesc & Carrer de l'Hospital, 12500 Vinaròs, Castelló, Spain
•Project Year: 2015
•Photography: Vicente A. Jiménez
•Manufacturers: Inmar Stone Group
•Promotor: Ayuntamiento de Vinaroz
•Architects: Camilla Mileto, Fernando Vegas
•Installations: Antonio Vte. Martí Guillamón, ingeniero
•Lighting: Elías Hurtado Pérez, ingeniero
•Stucture: Adolfo Alonso Durá, arquitecto
•Budget Control: Salvador Tomás Márquez, arquitecto técnico
•Garden Advisory: Marta Edo Albalate
•Contributors: M. Soledad García Sáez, Lidia García Soriano, F. Javier Gómez Patrocinio, Isabel Segovia Campos
•Project Direction: Camilla Mileto y Fernando Vegas, arquitectos (UPV)Universitat Politècnica de Valencia
•Director of Execution: Salvador Tomás Márquez, arquitecto técnico
•Project Collaborators: M. Soledad García Sáez, Lidia García Soriano, F. Javier Gómez Patrocinio
•Archeology: Noema Restauradores S.L.
•Archeology Study: Pablo Rodríguez Navarro (UPV)
•Restorer: Noema Restauradores S.L.
•Constuction: Construcciones Rafael Zarzoso S.L.
•Garden: U.T.E. Jardines

In 2001 the church and convent of San Francisco, in the Castellón town of Vinaroz were demolished and only part of the north outer wall and the indoor flooring were left standing. Following this unfortunate event, what had been the site of the church and convent was asphalted and used as a parking space, and over the years the remains of the outer wall and flooring greatly deteriorated due to natural causes and vandalism.
The garden of San Francisco was born from the archaeological remains of the original 17th-century convent and designed to evoke the historic memory of the building, as well as that of the gardens and orchards surrounding it, aiming to restore dignity to the site and transform it into a place for meeting, relaxation and amusement, recovering a living space for the community.
The traces of the former walls of the convent were discovered when the new asphalt was broken up and have been built up to form garden seats using the original building ashlars, stones, tiles and roof tiles found during the excavation. The aim of this operation was to evoke the original convent by incorporating the archaeological remains, rather than adding to the municipal landfill where these remains and their unique background would be amalgamated with many others to finally become environmental waste. The surviving church wall has been carefully restored using remains and imprints of renderings, paintings, joinery, etc., as well as the remains of adjoining houses which had enabled the wall to survive until the present day.
The area inside the convent and church was paved with local stone, allowing the different spaces to be clearly distinguished. While the pavement in the church area is closely spaced and follows the bays of the original building, the convent area features spaces for vegetation to grow between the pavement slabs, perfectly integrated into the garden as a whole. The remains of the masonry walls and pebble paving of the convent found on the ground interact with the vegetation of the garden, blending into it.
The square still preserves many underground crypts and archaeological remains which have been respected for the future following the necessary cleaning. In addition to recovering and restoring the traces of the convent and church, the original access from calle San Francisco through the fence which surrounds the whole area has also been recovered, and new accesses to the surrounding square have also been incorporated.
In addition, the surviving vegetation, palm trees and a cypress, have been preserved and used as the basis for the new vegetation in the garden areas.

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NO.29.

QUID Vicolo Luna, Italy, 2016

•Architects: Lillo Giglia Architecture
•Location: Favara AG, Italy
•Collaborator: Giorgio Parrino
•Area: 1500.0 sqm
•Project Year: 2016
•Photographs: Salvatore & Lillo Giglia
•Manufacturers: Chiraema, Euwork resine, Weber

Named after its charmingly christened Moon Alley, the Vicolo Luna neighborhood is an urban quarter on the edge of Favara’s town – which is a unique web of dammusi, low stone-and-lime buildings directly derived from the Roman domus, of which dammuso is the surviving archaic Sicilian word.
This project’s target is to toggle on urban and social regeneration dynamics, to the benefit of such complex network of old and new buildings, of public, private and venue spaces: squares, historical streets, alleyways, plazas, courtyards and gardens. It is indeed a manifold interaction between public and private, leading to a remarkable degree of cultural livelihood and to a striking nightlife, such as making Favara stealing the lead from neighboring Agrigento regional capital and world-wide renowned historical city.
Based on such premises, the present project intends to apply a selective focus to ancient and ruined house buildings together with all their annex spaces, and to re-address their function to a broad range of social events: from cuisine to AD facilities (Albergo Diffuso, Diffused Hotel), from exploiting the charm of old, quant courtyards and gardens refashioned and tuned to a fresh contemporary feel to making best use of such warm and yet intimate spaces by hosting performance art events as well as resources and investments – A hub for energy to gather around a reborn, innovative and above all shared and community-based urban context.
The multi-faceted nature of this project contributes to an open, participated and constantly evolving, in-progress cultural improvement.
There are two dimensions working in constant interaction and synergy: preservation works and innovative architectural planning. The outcome is a unique, defined, wholesome and complete architectural standard which introduces and operates on several spatial aspects.
The nature of this project consists in the creative elaboration and multifold application of the old/new contrast on a roughly 1.500 square meters town quarter.
The first phase of the project is going to be the most challenging as far as restructuring works are concerned: works will be carried out for the renovation and re-addressing of a large noble household property with several annex buildings, among which maintenance facilities once used as tool-houses and a garden.
In the following step of the project, additional hosting facilities, currently work-in-progress, will be open to the public.
Having to comply with strict council regulations concerning the overall building size allowed, close-up, tailored, surgical interventions were carried out, drawing out and integrating with a custom and uncompromising approach. Materials and works were aimed at creating sharp and yet natural shapes blending in a rather blunt, stratified and crystallized background.
The present project has chosen and made sure to preserve as much as possible of the original wall structures, avoiding to disrupt the original lay-out along with the characteristic elements of the building: on the ground floor, two crossing vaults, the arches and the wooden ceiling and roof; at the first floor, the brand new beams set in their original sloping framework design.
From an architectural point of view, the target is nurturing a plus in each space, by using a minimal language, expressed by a choice of natural materials and neutral grey and white indoor environments, alternating neat and smooth outlines with unlayered, rough cement walls in specific spots.

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NO.30.

Martello Tower Y, UK, 2009

•Architects: Piercy&Company
•Location: Suffolk, United Kingdom
•Project Year: 2009
•Photographs: Edmund Sumner
•Industrial Designers: Billings Jackson Design
•Structural Engineer: Price & Myers, JP Chick and Partners
•Joinery: Sam Lucas
•Facade Design: Billings Design Associates
•Mechanical Engineer: Norman Disney & Young
•Lighting: DHA Designs, Zumtobel
•Steelwork: Commercial Systems International Limited
•Client: Jackson Family

By restoring an 1802 Martello Tower and converting it to a family home, the principles of conservation were pushed beyond preservation, instead aiming to breathe new life into the ‘at risk’ structure.
Strategically the intention was to clearly differentiate the old and the new, avoiding pastiche, with the contemporary insertions touching the original fabric as lightly as possible; allowing the heavily textured masonry to be the star. Designed to be extremely sensitive to the monument and its setting, the new curving roof extension and re-sculpted interior seek to gain creative momentum from the tension between modern requirements and the need for heritage conservation.
Converting a Napoleonic era defence tower built in 1808 into a 21st Century private residence was a demanding brief. As a Scheduled Monument on the At Risk register and located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the planning negotiations were matched in complexity by the on-site logistics. Ultimately however, the conversion won the support of English Heritage who heralded it as an exemplar of how to convert significant historical buildings.
Materials and Construction
The tower’s fabric comprises 750,000 bricks but the quality of their construction was not immediately evident. As it was revealed, it set the standard for the design. The new roof is a 3D curved lightweight structure, constructed of steel and laminated plywood, tethered by five pairs of Macalloy bars. A detailed 3D model was used to create 2D cutting patterns for off-site manufacture. A skirt of frameless curved glass below the roof expresses the distinction between old and new as well as providing 360 degree views. The roof, set back to minimize visual impact, is clad in a single ply membrane with three roof lights. The system is elemental as it had to be stored and installed from the gun platform.
In order to bring light into the basement, six 450mm diameter holes were diamond-core drilled through 4.5m of fully bonded brickwork from just inside the window reveals into the magazine bedroom, utility, bunk room and bathrooms. The two other bedrooms have 60mm holes for ‘Camera Obscura’ views of the countryside to the southwest and northwest.
200mm diameter holes were drilled from the top of the parapet to meet the passive ventilation system leading to the ground floor and basement. These brick ducts provide routes for water, electricity, gas for the kitchen and heating to the roof. They also accommodate the supply and exhaust ducts for the heat recovery ventilation system in the basement and ground floors.

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NO.44.

Santa María de Vilanova de la Barca / AleaOlea architecture & landscape

• Architects: AleaOlea architecture & landscape
• Location: 25690 Vilanova de la Barca, Lleida, Spain
• Architect in Charge: AleaOlea architecture & landscape
• Area: 200.0 m2
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Adrià Goula
• Manufacturers: Terreal
• Promoter: Incasol. Institut Català del Sòl. Generalitat de Catalunya
• Constructor: Construccions Jaen-Vallés – Urcotex Inmobiliaria
• Technical Architects: Baldomer Ric
• Owner: Ajuntament de Vilanova de la Barca

The Old Church of Vilanova de la Barca
The Old Church of Vilanova de la Barca (Lleida, Spain) is a 13th-century Gothic building that was partially demolished in 1936 because of the bombings of Spanish Civil War. Since then, the church was in a general state of ruin preserving just its apse, some fragments of the naves and the western façade. The main aim of the project was the restoration of the original appearance of the church and its transformation in a new multi-purpose hall. The most important part of this intervention has focused on the covering elements. The project establishes a new brick façade based on a latticework texture and a new gabled Arab tile roof. The whole system is conceived as a new architectural ceramic shell that is gently supported on the remains of the ancient walls. From outside, the perception of the old church is restored, meanwhile inside the building, the project intensifies the entrance of natural light due to the new windows, the new proposed patio or thanks to the white rendering walls that have been introduced. Thus, the project establishes an architectural dialogue between the old and the new, past and present.

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