Detail of the project ed. 2024

chapels-in-saint-james-way / Spain

Design­er Ser­gio Sebastián
Loca­tion Ermi­ta de San Juan Bautista de Rues­ta, 50685, Los Pin­tanos, Spain. Ermi­ta de San Juan Bautista de Sigüés, 50682, Sigüés, Spain. Ermi­ta de San Jacobo de Rues­ta, 50685, Urriés, Spain.
Nation Spain
Design Team

Ser­gio Sebastián, Pablo Sebastián, Ale­jan­dro Alda, Gior­gio Bernar­di, Michela D’Angelo
Year 2021
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Foto1 Ester­no: Iña­ki Bergera
Foto2 Ester­no: Iña­ki Bergera
Foto3 Ester­no: Iña­ki Bergera
Foto4 Ester­no: Sebastián Arquitectos
Foto5 Ester­no: Sebastián Arquitectos
Foto1 Inter­no: Iña­ki Bergera
Foto2 Inter­no: Iña­ki Bergera
Foto3 Inter­no: Iña­ki Bergera
Foto4 Inter­no: Sebastián Arquitectos
Foto5 Inter­no: Sebastián Arquitectos

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Project descrip­tion

Rues­ta is a beau­ti­ful remain, tes­ti­mo­ny of an impor­tant his­to­ry that asks for being pre­served. The actions car­ried out have allowed to val­ue and recov­er the Camino de San­ti­a­go as it pass­es through Rues­ta, as well as the restora­tion of its chapels.
All this works have been struc­tured in two mas­ter plans. One con­cern­ing the French St. James’ Way; the sec­ond, for Ruesta’s core recovery.
The chal­lenge of the restora­tion was the recov­ery of lost archi­tec­tur­al after it had become into a ruin. “S.Juan de Rues­ta” chapel, was a prim­i­tive Romanesque tem­ple where a 40% of the orig­i­nal vol­ume was lost. The project strat­e­gy con­sist­ed of recov­er­ing the image of the com­pact orig­i­nal vol­ume, an image that received the pil­grim and that was lost after the col­lapse. Evo­ca­tion as a project tool allowed us to recov­er one of the main val­ues of the orig­i­nal building.
We estab­lished that the roof and the walls, should share the same lan­guage, an abstract and reg­u­lar pat­tern of hor­i­zon­tal stone lines. We pro­posed a sys­tem like the local con­struc­tive sys­tems (over­lap­ping slab roofs), slid­ing it along the façade. The new sand­stone ash­lars of the area were carved accord­ing to an open­work lat­tice linked to the mechi­nales of the apse, which draws the dif­fer­ence between the inter­ven­tion and the old part through the light. Out­side, some of the orig­i­nal mason­ry piled up after the col­lapse of 2001 were recov­ered to cre­ate a memo­r­i­al that reminds us of the com­mit­ment to pre­serve our memory.
In Sigüés, the orig­i­nal draw­ing of the pave­ment has been recov­ered, and we designed a new con­tem­po­rary altar.
S.Jacobo’s chapel has brought us the archae­o­log­i­cal find­ing of the orig­i­nal hos­pi­tal, a clois­ter, the orig­i­nal apse, and a medieval necrop­o­lis, next to the Camino, from the 12th cen­tu­ry. The dif­fi­cult man­age­ment of its access has been solved with a deep thresh­old, which allows the pil­grim to enter and get used to the twi­light through a kind of niche based on the design of the Jacobean shell.

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