Architects:Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Miguel Mesa del Castillo

Year :2021

Photographs :José Hevia

Lead Architects :Andrés Jaque, Miguel Mesa del Castillo

Team : Roberto González García, Nieves Calvo López, Joan Fernández Linares, Ana Fernández Martínez, Marina Fernández Ramos, David Gil Delgado, Marta Jarabo Devesa, Jesús Meseguer Cortés, Laura Mora Vitoria, Paola Pabón,

Quantity Survey : Francisco de Asís Pérez Martínez

Estructural Engineering : Qube Ingeniería (Iago González Quelle)

Edaphology Consultant : María Martínez Mena

Ecology Consultant : Paz Parrondo Celdrán

Planting Consultancy : Viveros Muzalé (Rubén Vives)

Topographical Survey : Fulgencio Mª Coll Coll

Geotechnical Report : Forte Ingeniería

Quality Survey : Ingeolab

Drones Operator : Juan José Rojo Albadalejo

Developers : Victoria Sánchez Muñoz, Antonio Mesa del Castillo Clavel

Earth Movement : Excavaciones Eltoni

Foundations : Hacienda Corvera

Structure : Cerrajería Alberto Sobrino

Masonery : Construcciones Vifransa S.L.

Thermal Isolation : Aispomur

Interior Partitions : Escayolas Dani

Window Frames : Hijos de Pascual Baño

Woodwork : Carpintería Tornel

Glasswork : Cristalería Marín

Thermal Curtains : ACOM. Agrocomponentes

Mechanical Systems And Solar Energy Production : Fontanería Diego

Electricity : Anzora Instalaciones

Climate Management : Iceberg Climatización S.L.

Sensing System : Netro

Painting : Prymur

Stonework : SYC Piedra Natural

Civil Construction : Gestchaft

City : Molina de Segura

Country : Spain

Since the 1980s, vast stretches of land in the formerly-rural county of Molina de egura (Murcia) have been exploited to create suburbs. The result of this exploitation is a flattening of the land’s topographies and the destruction of its territorial system of ravines (ramblas). Ramblas constitute a fabric of veins carved by seasonal rainfall in the dry steppe landscape. In them, humidity accumulates, and biodiversity flourishes. They constitute corridors of freshness, carbon fixation, and ecological entanglement that play a crucial role in the climatic and earthy stability of Molina de Segura’s ecosystems.

The Rambla Climate-House works as a climatic and ecological device. It is part of a series of associative initiatives, developed at the scale of independent citizens, to contribute to reparations for the environmental and climate damage caused by over urbanization in Molina de Segura. The Rambla Climate-House collects pooled rainfall from its roofs and greywater from its showers and sinks to spray onto the Rambla's remains and regenerate their former ecologic and climatic constitution.

Humidity and conductivity Netro-sensors activate an automatized meteorology that escapes the control of humans to reach the requirements of the reparation process. The house is organized around this elliptical section of rambla, as an observatory in alliance to this reconstructed landscape and as a sequence of interconnected spaces of different widths.

Following the reparation of the hydrothermal conditions of the rambla, glimpses of its former more-than-human life have rapidly re-emerged after a one-year period. Now, brachypodiums, myrtles, mastic trees, fan palms, oleanders, and fire trees grow in the elliptical section. Insects, birds, and lagomorphs find shelter in it.

The Rambla Climate-House is the result of a collaboration between architects Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation and Miguel Mesa del Castillo; the edaphologist María Martínez Mena; and the ecologists Paz Parrondo Celdrán and Rubén Vives. All are committed to contributing to the growing grassroots movement claiming climate reparation in Murcia. Since its completion, the house has become a demonstrative device.

Gatherings with neighbors and members of the extended Molina de Segura community are organized to share insights and experiences in a collective effort to reground Molina de Segura’s urbanisms.

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