Author(s)

F. Torres

Abstract

Adaptation and restoration of the site of the Carthusian Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, Seville, 1987-1992 F. Torres THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF LA CARTUJA The Pickman factory was set up in the monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas with modifications made for its accomodation both to buildings and to La Cartuja's spatial planning, shaped according to rules that pay special attention to the characteristics of edificatory lay-out, and determine precisely the shapes and relations amongst its different parts. A physical correlation can be made in the equilibrium between the solitary life of the Carthusian monk and his interaction in the community and between the composition and the distributive organization of the different parts of the monastery. These, depending on their occupants' distinct ranks: monks, friars, servants and the prior himself, are located in groups of elaborated and precise configuration, that seem to be isolated and juxtaposed without spatial

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