This morning Prof. Dr. Felipe Peña held an interesting lecture with the title «Design and Project: Alvaro Siza, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela», as a masterpiece and exemplary project in a very similar situation to Santa María del Sar.

Later the workshop continued as a day full of labour. The presentations of the last day, accompanied by comments of all professors introduced everybody to a very large variety of typological solutions and led some groups to a new perspective on their own work.

The third day started with an interesting presentation by Prof. Dr. Ramón Yzquierdo about the history of the Colegiata de Santa María la Real del Sar. In the afternoon we invited all the groups to present the actual state of their reflections using models, sketches and short explanations. Those short presentations served to open a common reflection, sharing and confronting opinions and views between students and teachers and getting conclusions that will be very important for the rest of the workshop.

Afterwards, teachers and students of Iacobus+ workshop were received at the town hall by the mayor of Santiago de Compostela, Martiño Noriega, and Jorge Duarte, urban planning counsellor of the city. They offered all the team a full cooperation and showed their interest in the results of the workshop.

After the introduction into the topic of the workshop, students and professors participated in a guided visit of the Colegiata de Santa María la Real del Sar. The visit gave us capital information for the project and solved several questions about the origin and history of this singular architecture and opened new ways of thinking about its future.

March 11, 2019: finally, the workshop for our Iacobus+2019 project «Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar» has started. More than 50 students from four academic institutions (OTH, UDC, ENSACF & NUACA) will work together in international groups during one week at the UDC in order to plunge into the topic of this year’s master project in architecture. They will be coached by six professors from all four institutions. The project topic is the transformation of the existing Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar, an ancient monastery and important historic monument at the edge of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

The IACOBUS + 2019 Workshop of this first day was quite intense:

After a Welcome with introduction into the general topic of this year’s topic, Prof. Dr. Jesús Conde held an interesting lecture with the title «Urbanization project for the Colegiata del Sar environment», focussing not only about his proper urban project, but also informing the students first hand about the circumstances and the historic development of the site and the monastery.

After a break, students from France and Spain presented their analytical work about the site. See a very short summary of the workshop here:

Summary Workshop Iacobus+2019

March 11th, 2019: finally, the workshop for our Iacobus+2019 project «Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar» has started. More than 50 students from four academic institutions (OTH, UDC, ENSACF & NUACA) will work together in international groups during one week at the UDC in order to plunge into the topic of this year’s master project in architecture. They will be coached by six professors from all four institutions. The project topic is the transformation of the existing Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar, an ancient monastery and important historic monument at the edge of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

The day started with a Welcome with an introduction into the general topic of this year presented by Cristóbal Crespo (coordinator of Iacobus+ project), Fernando Agrasar (dean of the ETSAC), Pilar García de la Torre (vice-rectorate for internationalization and cooperation of Universidade da Coruña) and Felipe Peña (founder of Iacobus project). Later, Prof. Dr. Jesús Conde held an interesting lecture with the title «Urbanization project for the Colegiata del Sar environment», focussing not only about his proper urban project, but also informing the students first-hand about the circumstances and the historic development of the site and the monastery.

After lunch the workshop started with a presentation of the analysis work by students from the ENSA Clermont-Ferrand and from the Universidad da Coruña. French and Spanish students supplied all workshop-group with their knowledge, enabling all students to start directly with their design work, teachers wandering around to visit the groups.

See a very short summary of the workshop here:

And here are examples of the analysis work: