Parador Penitente
PARADOR PENITENTE
Gualano + Gualano: Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
G+ Gualano Arquitectos
COLLABORATORS
Christian Bernhardt, Lorena Díaz, Jorge Epifanio, Ignacio de Souza
CLIENT
Ministerio De Turismo, Intendencia De Lavalleja
LANDSCAPE
Arquitectura Esencial.
PROJECT
Parador Penitente
PROGRAM
Camping services, guard dwelling and services, bathrooms and locker rooms, storage
CONSTRUCTION
Tresor S.A.
BUDGET
USD$200/m2
PROJECT YEAR
2003/2004
YEAR
2004
LOCATION
Uruguay
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
The material as it is, architecture in nature, artificial in the natural.
The project does not intend to impose or blend itself, it marks an abstract architecture, honest, with unfinished materiality of concrete made rock.
It is involved in the landscape, respecting it, trying to be matter like the site.
The project is designed in two parts articulated in the landscape, the inn hanging from the rock and emerging toward the cliff, crouching, low on the ground, and the other volume, for camping, which receives the visitor from the arrival by car.
Construction Features
Structure Load bearing and compositional in exposed concrete Masonry and wood partitions Wood and glass enclosures.
The skin / concrete structure creates the boundaries and hard edges of the project, opening and closing according to the requirements of program and landscape, and in turn generating the compositional structure of the project.
