Man against the colossus
Francisco LEIVA IVORRA (ES)
José Luis CAMPOS ROSIQUE (ES)
architects
Marta GARCIA CHICO (ES)
landscape engineer
Franziska GLAGE (DE)
Chistoph RICHTER (DE)
David FUENTES CASTRO (ES)
Maria GADEA PASCUAL (ES)
architecture students
Europan 8 Ceuta
runner-up
The human erosion flows shaping the landscape. Architecture should attempt to reduce its artificialness and consider approaching the environment understood as social and natural. A growth pattern based on the orographic reinterpretation of the area is proposed. Considering the seriously damaged landscape – destroyed in the quarry above – the project is based on an exchange between the necessary and the sustainable, between the decisions regarding density and scope of application involving a consensus that arises from the situation. This human orography is a new formula of cohabitation and an alternative management proposal.
Site informations
Ceuta
Synthetic site file EN
This project is connected to the following themes
Shared spaces - Intensification by superposition
The project plays on the strong existing topography to incorporate the proposal into the site. It offers a “human orography”, where a continuous public space is superimposed on the buildings.
Nature - Topography / ground
A man-made landscape of inclines is set against the gentle natural slope, creating a world of its own of light and shadow, wide views and protected privacy.