Article source: SUSANA HERRERA & FACTORIA

The ARCHITECTURE AS A TRANSFORMING AGENT

The reconciliation between tourism and communities has transformed Lake Lanalhue into a natural, economic and political resource. We are aware of being part of  our own time and place, in the Arauco province  where tense ancestral and  historical demands are taking place,  a complex period in many aspects, and instead of avoiding the implications that this entails, we decided to face this period by contributing from what we know best, and this is to act from within the territory with the architecture that makes us the most sense, that is the architecture whose action transforms and summons the encounter of worlds that at times seem so distant, but that share a specific place of the planet, a common place in the Cosmos.

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• Architects: SUSANA HERRERA & FACTORIA
• Project: Astronomical Observatory YEPUN “A SITE SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURE FOR A UNIVERSE WHERE WE ALL FIT”.
• Location: Region of Biobío, Lake Lanalhue QUELÉN Tourist Center, Chile
• Software used: Autocad, 3dS Max, Rhino
• Project Team: Rodrigo Troncoso, Diego Triviño, José Miguel Heras, Gonzalo Escudero
• Graphic Design And Astronomical Management: Marcelo Cifuentes
• Strucural Project: José Nicolás Durán
• Owner: QUELEN CENTRO TURISTICO / YEPUN
• Construction: Quelén Construction Limitda
• Year: 2016

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