Bordering the sounds from the contemporary city of Volos and the nearby cement industrial area, the site expands as to cover the territory of the abandoned slope of quarry. Old and New relics constitute the topos of our design intervention.
The study area deeps inside the complex of meanings transferred by the different pieces which is made of: an old slope; traces of the unnamed ancient city from the 4th BC which came to light during the 60’s and buried again under the pressures for land demands; sounds from the urban context which lies behind and the industrial zone; historically evoked messages on the hill of Goritsa with its ancient wall, the remaining wells and the church on the top springing holy water; machine-gun nests from the second world war. The archaeology of this topos embeds fragments and moments which date back more than 2500 years. And maybe they don’t all signify the same value and importance but they are definitely the living witnesses of a rather -not so apparent- idiomorphic historical record and an inherited meaningful transcription of today.
From the modern road tunnel of Goritsa, the new infrastructure bridges all the material events and spatial episodes with the testimonies of a topos being temporarily abandoned. The view of the observer probes into these layers exploring the landscape from various distances, while the city looks, physically and essentially, away from site’s spatial properties and possibilities. Our design strategies become the tools to explore and inquire these possibilities, redefining and shaping the landscape. The scale of this redefinition is up to the degree we will let ourselves to become implicated in this complex.
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