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The Chilean Pavilion - Against the Tide
Commissioner: Cristobal Molina (National Council of Culture
and the Arts of Chile)
Curators: Juan Roman, Jose Luis Uribe
Exhibitors: Felipe Aranda, Ximena
Caceres, Claudio Castillo, Ximena Céspedes, Gabriel Garrido, Carolina Guerra,
Juan Francisco Inostroza, Yasna Monsalve, Felipe Muñoz, Daniel Prieto, Javier
Rodríguez, Jonnattan Silva, Carolina Solís, Tanya Vera, Cesar Verdugo
"The proposal
focuses on the problem of the transformation of rural areas, associated with
processes of agribusiness exploitation, and poses a critical look through the
construction of a series of projects that relate to this new landscape".
Chile. Against
the Tide, exhibits the work of a generation of
15 young architects who have conceived, financed, designed, and constructed
small architectural projects in order to obtain their professional degree in
architecture. These projects have been built with minimal means, with leftover
resources from agricultural processes and local materials easily available in a
rural environment. The pavilion presents fifteen projects chosen for the
exhibition, examining the training of these architects, and the customs of an
extraordinary territory in Chile, outside the urban centers. “Against the Tide” speaks to the
contrary direction in which some things move, accenting the customs and
landscape of a rural world of forestry and agriculture, aiming to improve people’s
everyday lives through architecture.
Above.
Filipe Munoz – Remains Facing the Horizon – 2012 - Pelluhue. To foster tourism
on the Chilean coast in an area affected by an earthquake and a tsunami, the
pavilion salvages and reuses wood thrown up by the tsunami on the beach of
Pelluhue to create a densely structured landmark recognizable within the
landscape.
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courtesy Chilean pavilion
The Chilean Pavilion - Against the Tide
Agua Santa Ceremonial Plaza - 2014
Ximena Careres
Chile. The design draws on a
geometry that evokes the sacred, transforming a barren summit into a landmark
through a construction of a circular, introspective space.
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courtesy Chilean pavilion
The Chilean Pavilion - Against the Tide
Trash Deposit Stop – 2009
Cesar Verdugo
Chile. Located in one of the most
polluted places in the locality of Armerillo. Because of its remoteness and
easy access to the canal, people use this place as a garbage dump. The aim of
the project is to provide a public space for the people of the community. Situated in an intermediate point, it creates
a nexus by means of the arrangement of a series of rigid elements, framed by
recognizable local landmarks. Thus, the user can include several distinct
moments: deposit their trash, wash their hands, and pause to enjoy the
surrounding landscape.
Photograph
courtesy Chilean pavilion Labarca rocco Junio 2011
Chilean Habitantes
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