Description of project by Rocamora Diseño & Arquitectura
The Levantina's Monte Coto quarry in Pinoso (Alicante), an exceptional panoramic view of Marble extraction, is solved by this architectural intervention.
This space is intended to work as a communicative and didactic platform for those visitors that never have been close to the stone industry. The most highlighted decision of this project was to solve all construction materials by means of reusing and recycling those that could be found in the quarry.
The hardened steel drills, generally used in the past as trephines to extract stone, were abandoned. However, they are now reused as a permeable fence that builds the platform boundary, all made with a minimum impact on the quarry spectacular views.
Flooring is solved with large dismissed blocks of marble recycled as constructive elements.
With this project the Levantina Company commits to opening itself to the general public by means of a project that begins now and will be completed with an open-air museum over the same platform. This project is also an extension of the exhibition named "Marble/Levantina/Tradition" (Mármol/Levantina/Tradición) carried out in 2014 by Levantina's Foundation together with the City Council of Pinoso.
