Espai transmissor del túmulo

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During the January of 2007, the construction works of a secondary pipe of the water distribution mains in Segarra-Garrigues system, caused an unexpected appearance of archaeological ruins from an ancient construction for 4.800 years in Seró (Artesa de Segre, Lleida).

The most important point of this discovery was the megalithic nature of sandstone slabs and especially the accuracy of geometrical decoration sculpted. Stones with soft relief that, at the same time, were parts of ancient statues reused from a previous sculptural monument.

Two patches that are not in use and next to the scales square, is the place where is projected and built a small cultural building with different type of uses and spaces.

A construction projected with local materials that, at the same time, is a topography that beats the drop of one floor between the square and the patches.

A succession of mild ramps with soft and elastic limits made of corrugated steel suggests different paths and covers the different conditions of the projected public space.

A clay and humus platform between the square and the prepirinenc horizon, cliff plane as a viewpoint on the fourth of steles where we can see the archaeological ruins…

… a corner space looking west with winter sun and vegetal cover during the summer, some banks recycling the stones of one of orchards and different carpets of floors alternating the use of materials such as clay, iron, topsoil, granite gravel… the shadows of two hackberry recovered… and the memory of the old orchard with the spontaneous regrowth of chard.

Inside, the space of the wine offers the product of the local cooperatives, and at the same time is the village bar.

Also a multipurpose room that blends the daily uses as a social centre with the introduction to the museum area where is documented the discovery and are showed the pieces of the megalithic tomb.

Finally we start entering to the room of the stele, by means of a spiral path with an almost imperceptible slope, surrounded by ceramic pieces that lets in the dim light, the air, the smells of the countryside, the fog.

While walking along the spiral, the light intensity goes down, the ceramic pavement disintegrates, and once in the camera the overhead light focuses the eye on the etched surface of each of the stele… silence… slowing time in a space of accurate contemplation, in a horizontal plane of clay powder showing the footprint of each visitor.

Quietly and in reverse we start to go out with no possibility of crossing with others… gradually intensifying light and noise, until the horizon of a wheat field comes to find us and takes us back to the common agricultural landscape of the area.

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Credits

project > Toni Gironès Saderra (Estudi d’arquitectura Toni Gironès)
collaborator > Dani Rebugent
structures > Boma Inpasa S.L.P. (building) Estudi XV S.C.P. (ramp)
installations > Oriol Vidal Ingenieria S.L.P.
constructor > Construcciones Orgèl·Lia S.L., Construcciones Germans Gilabert S.L.
location > Seró (Artesa de Segre), Lleida, Spain
program > archeological museum
dimension > 3615 m2 (roofing and outer space) 503 m2 (building)
cost > 348.952,44 €
cost/m2 > 42 €/mq (roofing and outer space) 390 €/mq (building)
chronology > 2007 – 2012
photo credits > Aitor Estèvez