Master plan for the Llatzeret of Maó

Master plan for the Llatzeret of Maó

Pla director del Llatzeret Maó

Drafting of the Master Plan for the Llatzeret of Maó, the former major quarantine hospital of the Spanish east coast (1793–1817). Located on Llatzeret Island, in the Port of Maó, it was declared a cultural heritage asset (BIC) in 1993.

The plan is structured around its two main objectives: the preservation of its original heritage values and its future sustainable and participatory management. To achieve the first objective, and based on an exhaustive historical analysis and assessment of the site’s conservation status, the plan establishes different protection levels for the existing buildings and the technical criteria for their future restoration. To achieve the eco-social objective, the plan proposes, in pursuit of self-sufficiency and net-zero impact, the creation of the Llatzeret resource-balance agency. It also outlines a proposal for citizen participation to define the future uses of the former hospital and articulate its co-management.

The drafting of the document was carried out by a broad transdisciplinary team and through rigorous fieldwork. The result is a management tool for the site that aspires to excellence in heritage intervention, binding environmental objectives and citizen co-participation.

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Status: Completed

Client:
Consell Insular de Menorca
Department of Local Cooperation and Tourism Promotion

Location: Port of Maó, Menorca

Dates (start and completion): 2019–2020

Area: 115,500 m²

Budget (PEM): €20,100,000

Awards: First prize in curricular and methodological proposal competition

Co-authors:
Joan Pons Alzina, historian
Josep Gavaldà, industrial engineer

Quantity surveyors: Amílcar Seguí and Rafael Mus

Traditional materials and techniques: Joan Ramon Rosell, quantity surveyor

Heritage intervention: Anna Chust, architect

Conservator-restorer: Carolina Moreno

Archaeologist: Ismael Moll Pelegrí

Environmental scientist: Iván Fernández

Environmental consultancy: Societat Orgànica

Collaborators:
Federico Biasotto, architect
María Zufiaur, Albert Asensio, Júlia de la Fuente, Alegría Garrofé, architecture students

Images: Ferran Vizoso