Martyrs Park Monument
Master Plan - Genetic Reserve of
Hoya de Huesca, Temporary Ecology, Biomass
The Garden on Movement, Nature as Construction Material
The Garden on Movement, Nature as Construction Material
The historical burden on the witness hill of Martyrs, a monument to geological time, accumulates a whole diversity represented in a genetic reserve and a temporary ecology, a sum of historical memory, myths, geology and biomass.
Its morpho-geological singularity, its isolated and elevated condition have been the reasons for the hill's isolation. It was once a quarry of the clays that today covers the roof of the city of Huesca. It is now the opportunity to constitute a guarantor of the local biome: herbaceous of the Hoya de Huesca, almond trees and insects that together with the political and mythological history of the place resolve, in a heterogeneous body, an island in the center of Huesca, a city of low density and slow evolution, emblem of an Empty Spain
The hill's isolation is reinforced by its high and steep condition that rests on a plane where lines of crushed concrete demolition were collected, waiting to be the roads' mantle to the Sierra de Guara.
Inside the hill, a temple is dedicated to the Martyrs Nunilo and Alodia, a desecrated cemetery covered with grasses. There is a dry and robust wall to the south of the temple, already in ruins, where 532 republican victims of the Spanish Civil War were killed and buried. The monument is a set of pyramids: one falsely excavated resolved by accumulations of vegetal mantle against gabions around the unexhumed mass grave, the other erected on top of the witness hill: each victim a duplicate stone above and below. The management plan proposes constructing a local biotope, a biome as a genetic guarantor, biological and political, ethical or mineral: a reserve, the forest as the future of civilization.