Instructions For Talking To Birds Anti-pavilion
INSTRUCTIONS FOR TALKING TO BIRDS ANTI-PAVILION
Yemail Arquitectura
ARCHITECTS
Yemail Arquitectura
LEAD ARCHITECT
Antonio Yemail
DESIGN TEAM
Julián Otero
GENERAL CONSTRUCTION
Cristian Alvares Cortés
PHOTOGRAPHS
Alejandro Ramírez
AREA
20 m²
YEAR
2026
LOCATION
Las Cruces, Chile
CATEGORY
Educational Architecture
English description provided by the architects.
Punta del Lacho, in the municipality of El Tabo, is part of Chile's so-called "Coast of the Poets":
a Pacific geography where sea, rock, wind, cultural memory, and the voices of Vicente Huidobro, Pablo Neruda, and Nicanor Parra converge.
On this coastline, near the Coastal Marine Research Station of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, lies this intervention developed within the framework of AULA by LA ESCUELA___ and Residencia Barco.
The site is understood not merely as a landscape, but as a living territory where birds, insects, vegetation, tides, visitors, and neighboring communities share the same fragile condition.
Instructions for Talking to Birds proposes transforming a small natural terrace along the Punta del Lacho trail—a sloping bend between rocks and sensitive vegetation—into an eco-poetic observation station.
Rather than a monumental installation, the project proposes an anti-pavilion:
a minimal architecture designed to slow down human presence and create a temporary form of permanence:
to perch, stop, orient oneself, observe, migrate, return, or simply exist without disrupting the surroundings.
The piece consists of an entrance threshold, two L-shaped benches that dialogue with the existing rock, a wind portal, weather vanes, bird perches, a listening cone, a rain gauge/drinking fountain, an appearance board, and small insect shelters built into the timber.
These elements operate as a family of strange apparatuses: rudimentary instruments, fragile signals, and small machines of attention that do not explain the landscape literally, but rather help to perceive it.
Each appeals to a specific phenomenon of the site: wind, sound, rest, flight, water, writing, or the emergence of other forms of life.
Conceived as a small environmental classroom, the project invites visitors, children, artists, poets, and hikers to enter slowly, lower their voices, sit down, listen, draw, and record whatever appears when the body remains still.
