Rurapolis Platforms II • Pozu Espinos
Location Pozu Espinos (ES)
Date 2024
Status Project completed
Photo credits Diego Miranda, Marcos Morilla
Project built in the framework of the Summerschool Rurapolis · Participants Aikaterini Tsirepa, Joseph Dolden, Albana Uka, Meliza Aïssat, Oveis Shahnaee, Alexandre Molina, Giovanna Fasano, Alessio Palma, Antonella Pappalepore, Ulrich Posch, Beatriz Barriuso Esteban, Aoi Uomura, Anna Jo Dornbracht, Kirill Wall, Irene Guerra, Bronagh Sheridan, Margherita Casucci, Livia Belotti, Yixuan Sun, Shiduo Tian, Francisco Cotallo Blanco, Pablo Raventos Surroca, Cristian Ferretti, Colombe Rouyer, Goya Yoon Borgeaud, Sihem Tayari, Elif Eylul Ozcan, Pietro Franco, Nicolas Eveno, Maria Sierra Noval, Ewa Kuhnert, Sofia Perrone, Livia Raspa, César Viciencio Vega
Conception Anna-Laura Bourguignon, Macario Iglesias, Salomé Wackernagel
Tutors NO-CITY team: Susanne Stacher (ÉNSA Versailles), Marco Ranzato, Ilaria Maurelli (Architettura Roma Tre), Jacopo Baldelli, Maria Elena Ponno (IUAV Venezia), Francesco Conti (Universitá Camerino), Ícaro Obeso Muñiz (Universidad de Oviedo), Nacho Ruiz Allen (Raal Arquitectura / ESDAC ESNE Asturias / Festival Ecos), Emmanuelle Déchelette (Déchelette Architecture)
Coordination Irene Muñiz, Fernando Mora
Support ÉNSA Versailles, Universidad de Oviedo, Ayuntamiento de Mieres, Fundación Laboral de la Construcción, Raal Arquitectura, Festival ECOS
Feature
In order to anchor the Rurapolis project as a rite of initiation in the territory, the construction of a basic module of our Rurapolis Plateforms was planned during our Summerschools. The Rurapolis Platforms at the Pozu Espinos are the second edition of the Summerschool programme.
During the Rurapolis construction workshop, artefacts were created that resonate with the Pozu Espinos, a former mining shaft located in the inner Asturian Valley of Turón.
The Rurapolis Platforms are structures created from materials taken from the ground and grafted onto the existing buildings and ruins– primarily platforms for exchange and for disseminating the Rurapolis, they are evolving in tandem with its territorial development.
We experimented with various techniques using raw earth, including rammed earth and - in immersion into this year's contexte, traditional Asturian construction methods such as "cebatu". The artefact created will be exhibited in the framework of the upcoming Rurapolis exhibition.
