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7 Gates: Routes, Rituals, Architectures of Ecstatic Wet-Scapes

Part 2 Project 2020
William Maddinson
Murray Livingston
Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | UK
Our research, initiated through the making of a ‘Camiño map-book’, brings to light the disparate relationship between Santiago de Compostela’s city centre and its landscape. The project seeks give agency to the productive landscape, to place it in the present moment, mobilised by a sedimentation of Santiago’s history and an eye to the future.

Using water as a connective principle, 7 Gates proposes a publication assemblage along a new 7th route into the city for the production of ‘Camiño parabooks’. More specifically, the photographer’s studio/gallery & bookbinder’s workshop are sited within existing structures of the old town and therefore speak to sensitive, locational specificity, while the Timber Mill forms a new material threshold on the city’s outskirts (the canopy of a Eucalyptus forest). These buildings, therefore, play out a tension between ecstatic expansion and contraction across scales within the larger productive landscape; each building is an architecture of ecstasy, remobilising the wet-scape of Santiago.

William Maddinson
Murray Livingston

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