Abstract:

Located in Olaroz Salt Flat in Jujuy, Argentina, the project addresses a landscape shared by lithium extraction and increasing environmental fragility. Rather than opposing industry, the proposal redefines existing infrastructures as catalysts for regeneration. Through a sequence of evaporative fields, soil remediation areas, and new agricultural plots, the territory evolves from a mono-extractive surface into a diversified productive ecosystem.

Four architectural devices, a saline treatment station, a climatic tower, an agro-productive exchange node, and a logistical habitable platform, organize flows of water, minerals, energy, crops, and people across the landscape. These structures operate not as isolated buildings but as open frameworks where technical processes and everyday life intersect.

Interior and exterior productive landscapes merge into continuous working environments that enable local communities to participate in collective forms of production while maintaining cultural and territorial ties. By redefining extractive landscapes as spaces of interaction and shared productivity, the project positions architecture as an instrument of transition, capable of transforming fragile salt territories into regenerative and socially active infrastructures.