THE BLACK GOLD ROUTE
Ana Rita Pinho. Porto, Portugal
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Name of work in English
THE BLACK GOLD ROUTE
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Name of work in original language
A TRAIL OF COLD WAR
Prize year
Young Talent 2020
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Work Location
Porto, Portugal
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Author/s
Ana Rita Pinho
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School
Escola Superior Artística do Porto - Escola Superior Artística do Porto.
Porto, Portugal
Young Talent 2020 YT Nominees
THE BLACK GOLD ROUTE
A TRAIL OF COLD WAR
Program
Culture
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Labels
Museum · Archaeology
The architecture emerges as an integrative element of the landscape capable of reviving places and equally ensuring them a future. Consequently, a project named “A trail of cold war” (“Um troço de guerra fria”), that addressed the appreciation of the mining industrial patrimony of Regoufe and Rio de Frades complexes, was conceived.
The construction of a program inserted in the complexes is characterized by a surgical, punctual and strategic intervention based on the understanding of the industrial structures and their functioning. Therefore, “A trail of cold war” represents a permanent museological and archeological space that promotes the study of the mining complexes of Regoufe and Rio de Frades in the field of Archeology, Geology and History.\nThe project proposed the introduction of an interpretative route with complementing elements in the mining complex of Rio de Frades, and an investigative center and temporary habitations for the investigators in Regoufe. Both mining complexes fuse themselves in a drawn route which incorporates old trails used by the miners, promoting a better comprehension of the territory and landscape transformation.