The project was set in a desert area with an extreme climate, with maximum day temperatures of about 40-50 ºC and minimum night temperatures below 0ºC, in the Mediterranean area, on the old remains of vernacular earthen architecture.

 

 Part of the remaining mud wall structures, which made up the site’s original urban layout, could still be seen. 

 

Endowing the site with a singular character, these remains are a living witness to the history of an ancient culture.

 

 The project therefore focused on the idea of (Re) Inhabiting he ruins as an unquestionable heritage need of the vernacular architecture of the site involved. 

 

This was to be done by restoring parts of the wall, reintegrating earthen parts and completing these with ceramics elements of new building work, allowing the centre point of this site to be conserved and simultaneously refurbished. 

 

Ceramics became the whole design’s unifying element which, from acting as part of the wall in the top storey to serving as flooring, cladding, or screens on the ground floor. 

 

Ceramics have a vital importance in the project, not only as a material inextricably bound to the history of architecture, with the site’s materials, but also as having that innovative ingredients that links it directly to today.