Quarry of Aspraggeloi village: rehabilitating a landscape "eye sore"

Quarry of Aspraggeloi village: rehabilitating a landscape "eye sore"

It has been a common practice intervening, a posteriori, in post-industrial landscapes and degraded sites due to past human productive activities (like mining), aiming initially at their gradual environmental restoration and, at a second level, projecting their reintegration under modern means and terms into contemporaneity. The present project investigates the most suitable design approach for the rehabilitation of an abandoned quarry field in Central Zagori, in order to create a referential and multifunctional public space for residents and visitors, a landmark that will highlight the characteristic geological structures of the region and will narrate the process of producing the basic local building material that formed the typical architectural and aesthetic physiognomy of Zagori. This project’s goal is to appoint that the minimalistic redesign of the site and the proposal of low budget constructions is able to convert an existing problem into an advantage of the area.