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: