Idea by
Nacho Gias
Walk & Hórreo
Call for ideas 2016
Walk and Hórreo
Walk and Hórreo

Northern Spanish regions have traditionally been agricultural areas where each family used to take care of their fields. The hórreo was the answer to a particular issue: how to keep the corn dry and safe from rodents. During the XX century, the agriculture productive systems suffer a deep revolution and the hórreos are totally abandoned. Young people are leaving the countryside to improve their life in big cities. Social structures remain fixed for the past and new ideas to reinvent life style are mandatory. I do think that this is not just a project else, it aims to become a reference for economical reactivation of the cultural and natural environment. Natural, Economical and Cultural flows cooperate among them in this proposal. But far away from being a just and useful strategy, Walk & Hórreo approaches to concepts as spellbound or magic. I would like to picture how the European future should be like, in which nature and culture play a key role by becoming prosperity creators.

1_Generators
1.1_Wasted Hórreos
1.2_Santiago Backpackers
2_Operations for change
2.1.1_Creation of Digital Base of Hórreos
2.1.2_Agreement with hórreos owners
2.2.1_APP to find hórreos and book a night on them
2.2.2_Hórreo preservation works
3_Products
3.1_Heritage reactivation
3.2_Experience for backpackers
3.3_New Technologies Approach to Rural Areas

Heritage Preservation

Creating new jobs in rural environments

First Prototype Under Construction
Walk and Hórreo
Walk and Hórreo

Northern Spanish regions have traditionally been agricultural areas where each family used to take care of their fields. The hórreo was the answer to a particular issue: how to keep the corn dry and safe from rodents. During the XX century, the agriculture productive systems suffer a deep revolution and the hórreos are totally abandoned. Young people are leaving the countryside to improve their life in big cities. Social structures remain fixed for the past and new ideas to reinvent life style are mandatory. I do think that this is not just a project else, it aims to become a reference for economical reactivation of the cultural and natural environment. Natural, Economical and Cultural flows cooperate among them in this proposal. But far away from being a just and useful strategy, Walk & Hórreo approaches to concepts as spellbound or magic. I would like to picture how the European future should be like, in which nature and culture play a key role by becoming prosperity creators.

1_Generators
1.1_Wasted Hórreos
1.2_Santiago Backpackers
2_Operations for change
2.1.1_Creation of Digital Base of Hórreos
2.1.2_Agreement with hórreos owners
2.2.1_APP to find hórreos and book a night on them
2.2.2_Hórreo preservation works
3_Products
3.1_Heritage reactivation
3.2_Experience for backpackers
3.3_New Technologies Approach to Rural Areas

Heritage Preservation

Creating new jobs in rural environments

First Prototype Under Construction