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From Salt Extraction to Architecture: A Journey Through History

Rene Submissions — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:04:12 +0000

Architecture often draws on the history of a place, translating local narratives into contemporary forms, materials, and spatial experiences. Located in the spa town of Bad Orb near Frankfurt, ALEA RESORT HIDEAWAY follows this approach, taking inspiration from the site's history of salt extraction.

Regenerative Salt Landscapes: An ArchDaily Student Project Awards Winner Rethinking Extraction in Argentina

Moises Carrasco — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000

When people think of Argentina, they often picture landmarks like the Obelisk of Buenos Aires. Yet the country spans over 2,780,400 km², making it one of the largest in South America and home to a wide range of landscapes and realities that frequently go unnoticed. In fact, the province of Jujuy in northern Argentina lies within the Lithium Triangle: a high-altitude region shared with Bolivia and Chile that contains roughly 54% of the world's lithium reserves. Within this territory sits the Olaroz Salt Flat, a site where today two competing dynamics converge: the expansion of industrial lithium extraction and the preservation of ancestral culture and lands inhabited by Kolla and Atacama communities, creating a clash of high-capacity industrial extraction and traditional, low-impact agrarian practices.

Delving into the Aesthetics of Rock Salt Crystallization

Camila Prieto — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 06:45:00 +0000

Rock salt is a chemical sedimentary rock that forms through the evaporation of water, as minerals dissolve and settle down. When excavated directly from the earth, it maintains a cube-shaped crystalline form. With its diverse textures, compositions and structures, this natural element has captivated human interest for centuries. Depending on the region and environmental conditions, salt rock has been found in diverse applications in architecture, such as a construction material that uses blocks of salt to build structures, bricks, or tiles. Often translucent, these bricks allow diffused light to enter interior spaces, creating a unique atmosphere and aesthetic appeal.

Could Salt Be a Material of the Future? Innovating with Crystallized Salt Panels

Valeria Montjoy — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Sodium chloride, most commonly known as salt, is everywhere. Ancient in its uses and abundant in nature, it preserves local ecosystems, de-ices roads, is vital in a variety of industrial processes, and is likely sitting on your kitchen table as a seasoning for your meals. Today, it is attributed relatively little value –considering it used to be as worthy as gold–, and unlike other nature-derived alternatives such as algae or mycelium, there doesn’t seem to be enough research and interest around all of its physical, mechanical or aesthetic properties. And yet it is a material with infinite, extraordinary potential. Apart from its life-supporting qualities, salt is affordable, easily available, antibacterial, resistant to fire, can store humidity and heat, and is great at reflecting and diffusing light.

Police Station in Salt / Josep Ferrando Architecture + Sergi Serrat

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:00:00 +0000

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Elderly Healthcare Building / Brullet Pineda Arquitectes

Javier Gaete — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Due to well-defined surrounding context in which this complex is located, the Healthcare building has had to adapt and respect the urban parameters, trying to integrate with the existing context, and moreover, the new Healthcare centre building tries to make use of the complex’s organization and functioning, using not only the electrical and mechanical facilities, but also tunnels that connect the complex facilities as a whole. Thus, even though it is visually composed of separate buildings, they are all related in order to maximize each others needs and help the users and the working staff transit from one building to another.

CAP Salt 2 / BAAS

Nico Saieh — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The project guarantees functional and economic calibre, opening up the ground floor to public use and rationalising floorspace by grouping it into clear functional parcels. These functional parcels are separated by interjacent courtyards which, at the same time, subdivide the vast size of the facility into smaller, more human spaces. The first floor and ground floor house the administration and consulting areas respectively.