Iacobus+2019/ Workshop: visit to Santiago de Compostela and Santa María la Real del Sar

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.

Iacobus+2019/ Workshop Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar

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

Iacobus+2019/ Workshop: Analysis

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:

Iacobus+2019/ES start: March 11, 2019

March 11, 2019 the 24th edition of the international architecture student project Iacobus (and with it, the second edition of Iacobus+, funded by the European Union via Erasmus+) starts at the Escola Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura of the Universidad da Coruña.
More than 50 Students from the University of A Coruña, the ENSA Clermont-Ferrand, the OTH Regensburg and the NUACA Yerevan will participate at the workshop about the fictional transformation of the Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar into a Cultural Meeting Center.

Iacobus+2019 Workshop UDC

IACOBUS + 2019_Colegiata del Sar_eric Frisch

Start of Iacobus+ 2019 in Santiago de Compostela

Iacobus+ 2019 will take care of the Colegiata Sta. María la Real do Sar in Santiago de Compostela (ES), under the supervision of the Escola Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura of the Universidad da Coruña (ES)

The international student project in architecture within the longtime cooperation of the OTH Regensburg with the ENSA Clermont-Ferrand and the Universidade da Coruña starts with a workshop from  March 11 to 15, 2019 in A Coruña.

This is the second of 24 issues which is placed under the frame of Erasmus+, for the second time the NUACA (Yerevan, Armenia) will collaborate with the longtime European Iacobus Partners from Germany, Spain and France. The jury will take place Mai 24, 2019 in Clermont-Ferrand (F).

The project is supported by the Concello de Santiago de Compostela as well as by the Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia.

The partner institutions met from November 22-23, 2018 at A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela in order to define the topic, to visit the site and to contact the local partners.

Credits images: Cristóbal Crespo, Juan Prieto