Abstract:

A horizon, a stratum, a reconciliation.

The project understands care as a collective act of reintegration: a re-weaving of industrial traces into the time-carved ways of living that once shaped the territory. Set in Manaure—where desert, sea, and salt extraction converge—the proposal confronts a landscape fragmented by colonial and industrial logics, where speed and productivity have erased memory from the ground. Architecture is conceived as a geological act, shaped by accumulation, erosion, and inhabitation. Mineral masses emerge from the soil and align with existing industrial paths, not to reinforce them, but to slow them down, bend them, and return them to cultural time. These bodies host shared practices: fishing, freshwater production, and learning, through which collective rituals and cooperative micro-economies are reactivated. Movement becomes inhabitation; infrastructure becomes landscape.

Rather than opposing industry with nostalgia, the project sutures temporalities. It integrates extractive trajectories with lived rhythms, allowing landscape, architecture, and community to coexist as active agents. In doing so, it proposes an Architecture of Coexistence, cultivated through care by reintegrating industrial paths into the lived rhythms of the landscape, restoring continuity across layered time and space.