A Master Plan for a Multistratified Spanish Fortress: Guidelines for a Strategic Conservation

ABSTRACT

This text aims to provide a summary of the formal guidelines for the strategic management of a large-scale monumental military complex. In recent years the Castle of Monzón (Huesca, Spain) has called for a strategic planning process within a flexible timescale taking into consideration the issues currently affecting it. The debate between conservation and restoration, its relationship with the surroundings, the land on which it stands, pre-existing elements, possible uses and management are some of the key points discussed. The aim of the master plan was to establish the main strategic axes for the design and implementation of the action plans needed to attain the objectives set. Far from easy, these objectives have been defined following an extensive process of study and analysis carried out by an interdisciplinary team.

KEYWORDS:

• Monumental complex
• studies and master plans
• plans for use and management
• cultural heritage strategy
• conservation guidelines

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Camilla Mileto

Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas (PhD. Architects) Universitat Politècnica of València (Spain), where they teach architectural composition and conservation both graduate and postgraduate courses. They have been guest lecturers in the universities of Venice and Palermo (Italy), Cordoba (Argentina) and the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) and have given lectures in many other universities. They have received several international awards for their research, new projects and built work on architectural conservation, like the 1st European Union Prize (2004, 2011), Europa Nostra Awards (2008, 2013), the Domus Award 2012, among others.

Valentina Cristini

Valentina Cristini (PhD. Architect) is a professor in the Faculty of Architecture of Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain). She has been visiting professor in several European and Extra-European Universities and Institutions from the beginning of her career. Currently she teaches both graduate and postgraduate courses (MSc. Pedagogy). She is also fellow of Res-Arquitectura Group at Research Institute for Preservation of Patrimony (IRP), Collaborator of UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture/Unitwin/UPV and she is a member of the ‘Loggia’ International Journal Editorial Board.