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Preserve the natural environment recovering an extractive industry, the architect of the UPCT Paloma de Andrés Ródenas develops this apparent contradiction to save the salt mines of Marchamalo, along with La Manga del Mar Menor, abandonment and "grotesque" urban advancement, just as the student qualifies her in her final work of studies.
His project 'Architecture of the salt' proposes a program of recovery of the salinera activity with artisanal methods, to obtain a culinary product of high quality, compatible with the ecological and landscape conservation.
The proposal includes returning to the sea the bay of El Vivero, recovery of native flora, viewpoints to observe the birds and the use of the buildings in disuse.
"The activity and salt production has a great tourist potential, for its natural and patrimonial values, but also social, because it creates identity and sense of belonging", argues the student of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, who has exposed her work to the neighbors of Cabo de Palos invited by the Association for the Protection of Cabo de Palos, Procabo.
The ecotourism activity would focus the new alternative of the Marchamalo salt pans, with guided tours, a small hostel in a building of the 30s designed by Lorenzo Ros, exhibition area, restaurant, bike lanes and a platform for extraction of sludge for aesthetic purposes and therapeutic.
De Andrés also proposes to reuse the windmill, declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, to take advantage of wind power.
The white color, to emulate the mountains of salt that were part of the landscape, would prevail in the new architecture next to the recovery of the old buildings.
All this would be done with respectful materials with the environment such as clay, stone and wood, as specified in the academic project, directed by Felix Santiuste de Pablos.
The salt flats of Marchamalo were built in the 18th century and their facilities are currently in a state of neglect, having been built several plots that housed drying ponds, and have minimal maintenance services for the conservation of the habitat of birds such as flamingos and fish. like the endemic fartet.
Source: UPCT
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