Retreat in José Ignacio
RETREAT IN JOSÉ IGNACIO
MAPA
PROJECT YEAR
2015
PHOTOGRAPHS
Leonardo Finotti
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DWELL BETWEEN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE BEACH
To inhabit the binomial countryside-beach entails dialogs between uses and customs intuitively disparate. Far enough away from the city but yet influenced by it, the new maritime ‘chacras’ combine opposites in coexistence: from the summer enjoyment to the winter gathering, from the sophistication of the beach meeting to the simplicity of country life.
REMOTE LANDSCAPES
To build in far away territories from the surroundings in which we usually live is a great challenge. Remoteness not as a limit but as a possibility, as a value, as a generator of fields and conditions.
PREFAB
In landscapes of high natural value, it is fundamental to respect their original condition and so it is essential a reversibility condition. Remote landscapes confronts us with the awareness of immenseness. It puts us in our role in reality.
Prefabrication allows us to work with industrialized materials that enable high-precision processes. Thus amortizing the impact of construction on the ground, minimizing waste, staff in situ and displacement: a perfect combination of nature and industry.
Houses do not move. They are made of heavy materials, put together with mortar, concrete must be used. These prejudices are hard to break, as the immobility of constructions.
On the other hand, Prefab Houses are produced in a controlled environment and carefully made. They are born in a factory and taken to its final destination. Houses do not move, however...
