MarinaRodríguezSotoca marina.rodríguez.sotoca@gmail.com

Architect&Bachelor of Fine Arts (+0034) 650 16 53 05 (+0034) 91 616 67 86

C/Ga1apagar 13.Vi11aviciosa de Odón. Madrid. Spain

the aesthetics of the l imit Pr oposal for a new opera ting l anscape at Ulia ·s rnount .

PFC Marina Rodríguez Sotoca . uern 2012

>> Mappi.ng the tbe land scape, natural.

limi t s , reconstructing "ARTEALIZING" the

Ol . ProposaJ area. \~e are at Ulia's mount , it defines the Donostia c i t:y ar east .

City that lies between tbree hills , »est Igueldo'S: mount, t:he historie center is locared in the Urgull's mount footh i lls and the easr is che Ulia's mounc our incervent:ion area .

We fiad in this mountain a special relationship •vi th the ci ty and San Sebastian' s people. The paths, the milestones, the memory of the place, che biol.ogical cycles, they open up a possibility fcr proposals .

02.Re-activation, recovery, reconstruction and re-interpretat~on of che existing, as a contempcrary st:rategy project:, based on t:he cycles of the exi sting landscape . Reflecting on the need for the individual to discover the revelati ons cf the place. We see in these pat:hs a chance to direct knowledge of the medium as oneself .

"Inbabil:ing tbe way, we do landscape, and ín turn transform .i t we become . ''

rhe road a a .Zimea &loor, l!fher e the propoaal i.a deployed around the landscape biological cycles.

03. Diagnos tic Ulia's mount is moving away and degradation, caused by the removal of che old leisure and recreational uses of Mount Ulia :

• Dismantling the old ferry anct tram aerial asee m:. to Ol ia .

• Close the old restaurant and lookout over toe city of San Sebastian . Currently in ruins .

• Destruction of the elernents of access to the watchtowers . Currently its initial use as landscape observatories, as elements to see but not be seen i s canceled

• Old rustic coffee house, place of rest and meeting that prornoted dialogue and cornmunication between the inhabitants , is now an empt:y shell wi~hout any use .

• Tne building replaced pigeon shooting skeet is currently unused, ~he esplanade at his feet in the formerly conducted games and competit~ons

• Other i tems ÍOund as the old ba~tery Monpás, whose strategic position gave a privileged visual to the Cantabrian Sea . His current situation is of ruin . Or small military landmarks scattered and hidden by weeds . As the cavities observed near the tip that speak of ancier>t sandstone quarries which bui.lt the Gros neighborhood.

Way as limes, (li.mit) area, a limit conjunctive, creating envíronments , and changas the perception of the environment.

04 . Global .strategys

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Recognize the complexity of Ulia's mount, understanding that it is formed by a supe.rposition of environmental limits, productiye, connectiv~, construction , recreational and social . (Soundary layers that interfere with each other) . Identify opportunities offered by the Ulia's mount as a borderline space between the city, the mountains and the sea .

• Define elemencs chat are able to condense, to grasp the limits of biology landscape to enhance the perception of these spaces resulting in chese limits habitable.