STABILITAS LOCI: The Benedectines vow of Stability
Obona: Pilgrimage as a Regenerative Architecture A regeneration strategy for the abandoned monastery of Santa María la Real de Obona, reactivating the ruin through reversible timber interventions, pilgrim accommodation and local community use within a phased framework of care.
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Stabilitas Loci
Introduction to the thesis: a regeneration strategy for Santa María la Real de Obona, combining heritage stabilization, pilgrim accommodation and local community use through phased adaptive reuse.
Camino de Santiago and the Abandoned Monasteries
Frames the problem: the Camino brings movement and visibility, but many sacred and monastic sites remain overlooked, fragile and disconnected from contemporary pilgrimage.
Asturias: Monastic Landscape
Situates Obona within a wider network of Asturian monasteries, showing how religious heritage, pilgrimage routes and abandonment form a shared regional condition.
Genius Loci: History of Obona
Explains the historical layering of the monastery, from its Romanesque origins to Baroque transformation, later adaptations, abandonment and the reuse of its stones by the village.
It’s Time: Design Strategy
Presents the core design position: preserve the existing fabric, activate new circulation, insert new uses carefully and keep local communal life alongside pilgrimage functions.
Architectural Proposal: A New Circulation Logic
Shows the ground-floor plan, program and circulation system, connecting pilgrim spaces, volunteer areas, workshops, archaeological functions and communal facilities.
The Monastery Re-Inhabited
Final atmospheric image of the proposal, showing how lightweight contemporary architecture can return life to the cloister without erasing the ruin.
Project Proposal. Ground Floor
The ground floor plan reorganizes the abandoned monastery through a careful mix of existing fabric and new reversible interventions. It introduces pilgrim rest areas, reception, kitchen-cantine, volunteer rooms, workshops and archaeological spaces, reconnecting the ruin with both the Camino and local community life.
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PUBLISHED ON 29th June 2026
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A thoughtful and deeply researched thesis that treats heritage as a living part of community and pilgrimage. Further developing the architectural details and spatial organization could make this sensitive regeneration strategy even stronger.