Architectural Design Archive
L.H.O.O.Q
If we combine landscape and architecture to culminate in a concept in which nature is useful, not only decorative, and the individual is the protagonist, in front of the architectural icons, a series of imbalances arise. Cultural, economic, political and social factors help to show these imbalances.

Being located on the border of Melilla - Morocco, we find landscapes that help us to better understand this result, such as the Melilla golf course and the old Moroccan cemetery located on the other side of the fence. The time frame accompanied by uncertainty, are essential elements for the natural process that originates in this place. It seeks, on the one hand, the destruction and ruin of a landscape full of vegetation, the reflection of a society submerged in the fervor of capitalism, facing the birth and flowering of a new landscape where death must be translated into a full landscape of life, the cemetery.

Architecture emerges from that historical trace that emerges in time, ruin. Adopting a completely formal character, the objective of the project is the conception of reality as a circular process, developed in three moments (past, present and future) and moved by the principle of contradiction.

To materialize this idea, the reflection of a withered Spain, we suppose the creation of a cemetery-museum of valuable objects that are part of our history, with the aim of decontextualizing them, devaluing them and caricaturing our culture.