DESIGN NAME: Interpretation Center Mining Portovelo
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Interpretation Center
INSPIRATION: Grandparents, through stories that convey the history of an era, SADCO was the miners school.
Insensitivity, neglect and vandalism have taken a heavy toll to the place; however, it is still possible to see elements that still remain.
The project seeks to rescue the Portovelo industrial mining heritage, generated by the mining company, South American Development Company. Through an interpretation center equipped with an outdoor museum route to value as many industrial remains.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Creating an interpretation center to value the miner historical past of Portovelo to safeguard the mining heritage; It will become the main tool to convey the beginnings of mining knowledge of the location to promote a new form of tourism.
The proposal is to use again old storage tanks and other obsolete items.
The proposal looks, the functionality of the building, the convenience of users, but mainly to maintain the originality of the industrial architecture.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Recreational area, gold extraction process.
The child approaches the area where will find the material containing gold, then will extract only the object that contains gold, after that will deposit it in a module that represents the processing plant, whereby the child will get a gold chocolate coin.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in September 2016 in Barcelona and finished in
December 2016 in México.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The proposal is to recycle old auriferous material storage tanks, elements on condition of disuse, the incorporation of museology in rooms that facilitate the interpretation is made. An interpretive center plenty of potential in educational and cultural terms.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The interpretation center proposal consists of seven rooms, reception room, interpretation room, model living room- mining exploitation SADCO-, rest rooms, recreational room area –gold extraction process – audiovisual room, souvenirs room and cafeteria. In addition, the design center has a car parking, access to the center, the location of the patrimonial assets and space for complementary activities.
TAGS: 111arq, interpretation center, mining, industrial heritage, Portovelo, cultural tourism.
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: In each room different museolographic modules systems that combine the corporeal, graphic, recreation, tactile, visual, auditive and design are proposed, but basically all resources are connected to the main theme, to provide the interpretation of the Portovelo industrial mining heritage.
CHALLENGE: The proposal is to recycle old auriferous material storage tanks, elements on condition of disuse, the incorporation of museology in rooms that facilitate the interpretation is made. An interpretive center plenty of potential in educational and cultural terms.
ADDED DATE: 2016-10-28 23:15:25
TEAM MEMBERS (2) : MGIC Israel Lara Ramos and MIGT Milton Efraín Pacheco (Tourism consultant)
IMAGE CREDITS: Image #1: 11arq, Interpretation Center Mining Portovelo, 2016
Image #2: 11arq, Interpretation Center Mining Portovelo, 2016
Image #3: 11arq, Interpretation Center Mining Portovelo, 2016
Image #4: 11arq, Interpretation Center Mining Portovelo, 2016
Image #5: 11arq, Interpretation Center Mining Portovelo, Municipio de Portovelo, 2016
Video Credits: 111arq, Interpretation Center Mining Portovelo, todoatualcance, Municipio de Portovelo, 2016.
Music composer: River, Lobo Loco, unknown.
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to Israel Lara, 2016.
Registry number: 03-2016-110412340100-01
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