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A virtual platform designed to create empathy and knowledge about the schematic rock art, the digital space allows for virtual exploration of the different caves and their contents. Each cave has been 3D scanned to allow visitors to virtually cave-hop between the five. Their respective paintings have been photographed and passed through various visual filters that allow users to visually explore and decipher the different schema depicted which have increasingly become difficult to detect with the naked eye. While some clearly appear to be a sun or a human figure, others are more abstract, inviting the imagination to conjure different possibilities. In order to further stimulate a sense of collective ownership and protection, visitors to the platform can trace outlines of the various paintings and save them, contributing to a public archive of visual interpretations.

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Buracos is a project conceived, conceptualized, directed and developed by Pareid Architecture in collaboration with Zehao Quinn development of the virtual platform; elabrelatas, visual identity and iconography; Joris Putteners, animation; Juanjo Abella, sound design; Pablo Rodríguez González, archaeologist of the Toreno City Council who provided the technical texts for the Librán and San Pedro Mallo caves.