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“Designing is a creative process that implies the research to find out a solution, an improvement or an achievement of a desire” (Patro Laberintosa)

La Madeja collage. 

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Final Bachelor Project_Outstanding-Grade 10

[Project's development]

Within the municipality of Níjar, in the area of the Hornillo's basin and in the center of a valley surrounded by hills and reliefs Loma Pelada, stands Cortijo de "El Fraile" (Almería, Spain).

The project's aim was to get a use which turned the Cortijo back to the life. This proposal was about making it work as it used to do it in the past but in addition, today's lifestyle benefits should be included as well.

This Cortijo can be considered as the best example of a large farmhouse built to serve a vast property of agropastoral exploitation. Although built in the late eighteenth century by the Dominicans, was the late nineteenth century when, after the confiscation process, began to consolidate as large complex agropastoral (the fold Concejil del Fraile) characteristic of the rural economy Níjar.

The Cortijo, worked as the core of which depended on, in addition to wells and cattle troughs scattered throughout the area, other smaller estates where pastors and sharecroppers lived.

This place is also known as one in which the events that inspired the work of Federico Garcia Lorca, "Blood Wedding" and Carmen de Burgos in his "Dagger of Carnations."

Academic Project

Endless house study. Model and plans execution.

Academic work