Almagro, a city of culture, history, tradition, art and spectacle... is located in the Campo de Calatrava, in the very centre of the province of Ciudad Real. With a strategic position in its physical and cultural environment, the landscape rises along the entire southern horizon, leaving a mountainous and rugged landscape, until it reaches the sierra with increasingly steep elevations, with Cuevas Negras, Cerro Gordo or the southern area of the Cerros de la Yezosa hills standing out.

On the other hand, along the entire northern area, there is a large plain from which small undulations emerge that are reflected in the fields and leave natural limitations, visible in the pastures and agricultural fields.

Understanding the orography and therefore its hydrography, it can be understood that most of the rainwater is lost, filtering through the small thickness of arable land, reaching the limestones that form most of the Miocene terrain - geological time scale that began 23 million years ago and ended 5 million years ago - deep limestones through which the water flows.

There are very good communications between Almagro and its neighbouring villages: Bolaños, Valenzuela and Pozuelo de Calatrava.

Delving further into its culture and history, it is worth mentioning that it is the city of the corral theatre, housing the only Corral de Comedias dating from the early 18th century that is still intact and active and which is, to a large extent, the emblem of the city.

It has been declared a Historic-Artistic Site, housing not only art and entertainment, but also history in its architecture and millenary legends.

Taking into account the construction systems of the architecture of La Mancha and the landscape that makes up Almagro, a proposal is dictated; a proposal centred on bringing the colours and materials of the territory to the interior of the city, of implanting construction systems that have been used for generations and that are what constitute what we know today as the city of Almagro. A history that should not be forgotten and that we can continue to develop. 

The general structure of the proposal is made of wood, creating small corridors and connections between rooms and walls, a small nod to the farmyards.

A thermochromatic element, a fabric, is incorporated as a shifting element of the theatres, which transforms its colour according to the temperature variations.

With these colour variations, both on the walls and the façades, a great vibration is created both outside, in the public spaces planned, and inside the centre.

The wall built from rammed earth and a stone foundation appears on the scene as a mud wall, full of colours and properties typical of clay, a bareness of the very wall developed in the 17th and 18th centuries in the cities.

Calcite and quartzite, minerals that abound and flood the province, forming cascades of underground water and pressing the earth to their sides, are incorporated into a contextualisation of the earth retaining wall. A wall made of high-strength metal mesh filled with curaca and calcite.

Just as both elements in their natural state withstand the forces of the weather and the actions of man, within the proposal both walls act as supporting walls, both for served and servant spaces. 

The intervention aims to reactivate one more space within this network of theatres without forgetting the link with the land, the landscape, the history and the culture, a living architecture.