Our proposal for Monte Aledo (Murcia) stems from our Productive Golf research, questioning the model of golf resort in Murcia, whose appeal and prestige building is based on waste, excess and abundance of water, grass and leisure. We intend to transform the perception of prestige in golf substituting these elements, based on the waste of wealth, with new elements based on production, generation of wealth and the efficient use of resources. This redefinition can be understood as an attempt to create new forms of collective perception of territory and a new cultural identity.
In Aledo we identify a social and urban emergency due to the stoppage of works that were transforming the landscape of Murcia in a "fantasy resort". After finishing the earthworks, the former project was frozen, bankrupt. For this reason, our intervention is needed to achieve both economic recovery and the much needed cultural transformation of the place.
We respond to this context by creating a new landscape identity, which is not based on golf, but in energy. To do this we propose a system of solar fields expanding over the south facing hill of Monte Aledo, profiting of the existing earthworks and channeled ducts. The orientation planned for the resort is optimal, and also allows reversal of the visual relationship: the failed housing should have enjoyed magnificent views of the historical city from the sunny hill across the valley, but it will now be the historic city instead, to enjoy a show of light, a fuzzy silhouette, latent and oval, visible from the viewpoints of the ancient city walls.
The power of this action is not only in the aesthetic transformation, but also the cost-effective intervention to fund the very existence of this place, both through energy production and by the new attraction of the historical observation point. The permanence of this art-piece land would be limited in time so as not to impede further development.
In 1978 Rosalind Krauss explained in her article "Sculpture in the Expanded Field" the processes of transformation of artistic production in the second half of the twentieth century, highlighting the works that diluted the border between landscape and architecture, and dissolving the boundaries between artistic practice and cultural activity. The new identity of old Aledo is intimately linked to device that dwells on the opposite hill, difficult to classify, and an expansion of the field that can also generate infinite and volatile horizons.
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In Aledo we identify a social and urban emergency due to the stoppage of works that were transforming the landscape of Murcia in a "fantasy resort". After finishing the earthworks, the former project was frozen, bankrupt. For this reason, our intervention is needed to achieve both economic recovery and the much needed cultural transformation of the place.
We respond to this context by creating a new landscape identity, which is not based on golf, but in energy. To do this we propose a system of solar fields expanding over the south facing hill of Monte Aledo, profiting of the existing earthworks and channeled ducts. The orientation planned for the resort is optimal, and also allows reversal of the visual relationship: the failed housing should have enjoyed magnificent views of the historical city from the sunny hill across the valley, but it will now be the historic city instead, to enjoy a show of light, a fuzzy silhouette, latent and oval, visible from the viewpoints of the ancient city walls.
The power of this action is not only in the aesthetic transformation, but also the cost-effective intervention to fund the very existence of this place, both through energy production and by the new attraction of the historical observation point. The permanence of this art-piece land would be limited in time so as not to impede further development.
In 1978 Rosalind Krauss explained in her article "Sculpture in the Expanded Field" the processes of transformation of artistic production in the second half of the twentieth century, highlighting the works that diluted the border between landscape and architecture, and dissolving the boundaries between artistic practice and cultural activity. The new identity of old Aledo is intimately linked to device that dwells on the opposite hill, difficult to classify, and an expansion of the field that can also generate infinite and volatile horizons.
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