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Project Status: Built<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Year: 2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Size: 1000 sqft – 3000 sqft<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Trazas de Pontevedra <\/strong>\u2013 The project Trazas de Pontevedra was initiated by a public competition organized by the Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda. The competition sought the best intervention for 18 Galician-Roman settlements in the province of Pontevedra, Spain. AGi architects were selected for the project, which focuses on musealisation and enhancement of the sites. The first stage of the project was carried out in three of the 18 sites, laying the foundation for the entire project. The goal is to create a network for the reinterpretation of Galicia’s archaeological landscape. AGi’s approach to the project is sensitive and respectful to the surrounding environment of each site. The aim is to provide a distinct, simple, and sustainable identity for each site, offering a unique experience for visitors and driving local tourism.<\/p>\n

Architizer chatted with Joaqu\u00edn P\u00e9rez-Goicoechea, Principal & Founding Partner at AGi architects<\/a>, to learn more about this project.<\/p>\n

Architizer: What inspired the initial concept for your design?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Joaqu\u00edn P\u00e9rez-Goicoechea: Our competition proposal took as its starting point the intrinsic nature of the proposed program: the creation of a space for the preservation of memory in a natural environment chosen as a living place hundreds of years ago. The proposal enhanced the apprehension of the natural and archaeological landscape, bringing the observer closer to nature but also to that imagined and projected abstract world, through a non-formal intervention. As a natural museum, it recreated the memory of landscape through the maintenance, consolidation and recovery of the lost native vegetation. In order to do this, a guiding proposal, an abstract system composed of different layers, was established with the intention of transferring ad hoc knowledge for each of the sites, integrating them into a unique network for the interpretation of the Galician archaeological landscape.<\/p>\n