Entropic Trench

Entropic Trench focuses on the architecture of the Spanish Civil War, through the furrow of a trench in the S. Cristina park (where the surrender of Madrid was signed). Entropic Trench creates a new reality, leaning on this crack. A wound that has remained in the landscape.

Neurologists claim that 80% of what is remembered is a matter of creation and interpretation. Therefore, the memory, even a Historical one, would move between fiction and reality. It is in this fine line, on the border between the apparent truth and its representation, that my project springs forth: Entropic Trench. The geography of Santa Cristina Park, where I place the project, contains mounds of sand from the construction of the University City. As well as craters and trenches from the Civil War. Here the surrender of Madrid was signed. Entropic Trench is a piece of research that reviews the concept of a ruin. After the C. W. there was a decision to: cover-hide (U.City); highlight (Belchite); monumentalize (Valley of los Caidos); forget (bunker del Capricho). Now, after almost a century, I propose to return to these spaces, reinterpreting their function and returning them the right to their deserved passage of time. The trace of the trench tries to find a solution to the disconnection between faculties and absence of modernity as well as a place of socialization with an educational role. The landscape intervention transforms the trace of the trench in a crevice, that contains an overlap of walking paths. At the end of the cracks constructions appear, these will give solution to some of the problems of U.City. The cotidianity of these spaces enables the healing of the historical burden. In this investigation, the paradigm is a trench that will be intervened. For this, cartography, historical and current topography have been thoroughly studied. Through the mapping of the weapons found after the surrender and its sound scope, the acoustic topography of the area has also been investigated. Part of the construction will be executed with burned wood and a green design that will be eaten what was built. The Project, takes over the memory of the great counterfeiters (Miguel Angel and the British follies of the eighteenth century), designing a future ruin. Eighty years later - the life cycle of the burned wood -, Entropic Trench will become a ruin. And so, nature will reinterpret memory.