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Casa DP / Nanzer + Vitas

Andreas Luco — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:00:00 +0000

A House: A Village. All architecture carries implicitly its vocation of ruin, and such condition is the final form with which architecture enters in communion with nature and returns to it. From this potential fate, we were interested in the physical expression of the unfinished, what time and inclemency transform, the ways in which the work is gradually taken and constituted by the landscape, slowly dissolving its singularity in the whole. The house is conceived as a concrete and stone promontory emerging from the hill, a wall-divided house, that emerges from the organization and repetition of volumes of identical dimensions on the floor, 5 x 5 meters, with variable heights and sloping roofs as prescribed by the edification code, articulated by strategic voids, patios, passages and interstices, which on the outside give place and preserve the species from the local forest; Red Quebracho, Celtis Tala, Vachellia caven, Bacchari, among others, whereas in the inside they become the “streets” of circulation of this stone warp, as a ‘medieval mountain village’. Wall boxes that delimit empty places, which are as important as full ones, let the surrounding landscape filter and the exterior space is tempered for its use, protecting it from prevailing winds and oriented according to solar rotation.

Mousai Hotel / Estudio M+N

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 15:00:00 +0000

The project was to modify an old house from the early twentieth century, which operated as an inn since the 1940s, into a small hotel with 10 rooms, trying to take advantage of the limited free area.

House in Villa Cielo / Estudio M + N

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The direction of the gaze builds the landscape, of the evanescent magma of time and space, capturing its own territory for a moment, the act of looking is like building, it is never naive and innocent, there is always a cultural dimension that supports it, a time bias that identifies it, it serves as a mechanism for selection and assembly, which soon turns to memory, the reservoir of existence, and that is when the landscape becomes subjective and manipulable, relational and evocative. Every landscape is passing, or rather, the projected gaze returns us the assurance of being ourselves momentary passengers in the landscape, this conviction gives us ubiquity and temporality in traffic. Every landscape is perishable, like the carrier of the gaze. Precisely for this reason, the landscape is revealed to us in an instant as deeply human.