The history of these peripheral villages as they relate to the industrial- commercial urban centers is a history of the value embedded in their very definition. The populations in these villages have been emptying steadily due in large part to the highly intentional policy measures enacted by Franco in the 1950’s. Yet it is the contrast between the city and the rural, through which the rural defines its inherent value.

This proposal recognizes the inherent value of the rural landscape through recombining and therefore re-validating and re-recognizing what’s already there as valuable resources, not only explicitly through monetary value, but in cultural value as well. Not solely through added industry, or added program, but a recombination of the existing faculties of rural life and knowledge.