Loulé will host the International Architecture Workshop «Under Scapes», which will give special attention to the Sal-Gema Mine that exists in the municipality, between the 29th of August and the 4th of September.
The discussion about the mine intervention program is one of the challenges of this workshop, which will bring together students and teachers from six European schools of landscape architecture.
In addition to getting to know the Salt-Gema Mines of Loulé, workshop participants will take a guided tour of the Mother Sovereign Sanctuary, with a preparatory session at the Espírito Santo Convent and guided by the director of the Municipality Department of Urban Planning, Manuel Vieira, and by the consultant of the Autarchy for this area, Carlos Delgado.
A visit to the Noite Branca event and a final presentation, in a public session in the Municipal Assembly Room, with the jury consisting of Emilia Giiorgi (curator of the MAXXI Museum), Johannes Kuehn (of the Kuehn Malvezzi Studio), are other highlights of the program .
The tutors invited for this initiative by the Câmara de Loulé, which is scientifically directed by Campos Costa Arquitetos, are Filipa de Castro Guerreiro, Eduardo Pinto, Leonor Themudo Barata, Stefano Tornieri, Michelle Howard, Thamsz Glowacki, Johannes Kuehn, Emilia Giorgi, Margherita VAnore , Duarte Santo, Jordi Bellmunt and João Soares.
Participants come from FAUP – Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, ISA – Higher Institute of Agronomy of Lisbon, IUAV – Università di Architettura di Venezia (Italy), ETSAB – Superior Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (Spain), Akademie der binden Kunste Wien (Austria) and
PWR – Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland).
The Sal-Gema Mine is located in Campina de Cima, in the northeast of the city of Loulé. Many kilometers of galleries extend under the city and it is there, between 230 and 270 meters deep, that rock salt of great purity is extracted, destined for industrial use and for the de-icing of the roads associated with the safety of the highways.
There is a Mining Tourism project for this location, which aims to diversify the tourism offer in the Municipality and the region and which is based on three fundamental aspects: an area for "storage" services, that is, for document storage, a Theme Park/ Museu do Sal and the creation of a hotel with rooms and a SPA.
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