EN MAN COMÚN
A QUARRY REHABILITATION IN GALICIA, SPAIN
Situated within the Rosa Porriño granite quarries in O Porriño, Pontevedra—among the world’s foremost sources of pink granite - the project operates within a landscape shaped by extraction and material permanence. It redefines the site through a transition from production to inhabitation, using the quarry’s own stone to construct a residential and communal environment grounded in continuity, durability, and enduring value.
Mission
Reclaiming the quarry through the reuse of its own material resources, the project transforms a site of extraction into a residential landscape. It establishes a balance between communal spaces for gathering, dining, and exchange, and private dwellings for a new community.
BEFORE
Quarry Workshop
AFTER
Communal Gathering Space
Vision
Half-buried within the quarry, the housing typologies are designed to emerge from the landscape rather than sit upon it. Built from gabions filled with stone offcuts, they reframe waste as structure, forming a tactile and enduring architecture that is intrinsically linked to place.
Conceived as adaptable frameworks, the units begin as co-shared spaces, enabling temporary collective inhabitation during the quarry’s transformation. As the site evolves, they transition into fully independent two-bedroom homes, reflecting a shift from shared occupation to permanence without losing their material and spatial coherence.
