STABILITAS LOCI: The Benedectines vow of Stability

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.

Frames the problem: the Camino brings movement and visibility, but many sacred and monastic sites remain overlooked, fragile and disconnected from contemporary pilgrimage.

Situates Obona within a wider network of Asturian monasteries, showing how religious heritage, pilgrimage routes and abandonment form a shared regional condition.

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.

Presents the core design position: preserve the existing fabric, activate new circulation, insert new uses carefully and keep local communal life alongside pilgrimage functions.

Shows the ground-floor plan, program and circulation system, connecting pilgrim spaces, volunteer areas, workshops, archaeological functions and communal facilities.

Final atmospheric image of the proposal, showing how lightweight contemporary architecture can return life to the cloister without erasing the ruin.

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.