On Thursday, June 19, starting at 11:00 am, the thesis defense of doctoral student Jordi Gordon Guerra, entitled 'Regeneration strategies on the Mediterranean coast', will take place in the Sala de Graus of La Salle Campus Barcelona, and which he has carried out under the direction of Dr. Anna Martínez Duran. The doctoral student is part of the HER research group.
The boundary space between the Mediterranean Sea and the land is where the studies of this research are concentrated. This area of the coast has been a place in constant transformation for centuries, and the different economic activities that have been carried out in this place have been its main driver of change. This strip of territory continues to be highly densified and saturated with economic activities, with tourism predominating above all of them. This doctoral thesis investigates how to develop a sustainable regeneration method for spaces and buildings located in this frontline area.
The way in which this reconversion is proposed is through the transversal review from three areas of work: Landscape, Architecture and Culture offer a different reading of each case study and focus the gaze within a common framework of action. These three areas of knowledge are accompanied by three levels of approximation: the territorial level, (which gives meaning to regeneration in a broader context), the level of the built enclosure, (which brings us closer to the understanding of the constructions as a whole) and the building level, which provides us with projectual, construction, life habits and traditions knowledge.
Three case studies are selected considering these three scales of approach: the case of the Maresme coast, the case of Campsites in Catalonia and the case of the bay of Portinatx on the island of Ibiza. The goal in all three examples is to apply a similar work approach across the three work scales to elicit different answers. In this way, in the Maresme the study of the problems is approached from a territorial point of view. In campsites, the analysis is carried out on an intermediate scale, that of the groups of buildings that make up the architectural enclosure. Finally, in Portinatx the analysis is developed on the architectural scale. Each case study is developed in a published article, to later synthesize the ideas graphically and conceptually, from a common comparative base. These cross-cutting approaches offer guidelines for the reconversion of the landscape, taking into account sustainability criteria such as: the culture of the place, the economy of means, the climate crisis and the use of local construction techniques.
This research concludes that through the balance in the application of the three cross-cutting areas of work P/A/C and the cross-sectional review at the three scales, it is possible to address the sustainable regeneration of any case study in the landscape of the Mediterranean coast of the coastline.
The tribunal is made up of the president Dr. Roger Joan Sauquet Llonch; the secretary, Dr. Núria Martí Audí; and the member, Dr. Oscar Chávez Acosta.