Article source: WILLIAM OBREGON

1. LOCAL UNDERSTANDING

THE DESERT LIVES

The word “emptyness” is the informal term that we use to refer to the absence of content of a container or place. For the architecture, probably for the most orthodox, it is the absence of artificial or natural references, where everything is in the habit of being sustained almost acts. The desert is always a challenge for the architecture and probably the most similar thing to nothing. The absence of modals forces to a major degree of search in this particular landscape, which will be able to be defined of many forms, but it will never be one “not place “.

Image Courtesy © FRANCISCO CAMPODONICO

• Architects: WILLIAM OBREGON
• Project: Geoglifos Of Pintados Visitor Center
• Location: TARAPACA REGION, CHILE
• Photography: FRANCISCO CAMPODONICO
• CLIENT: NATIONAL FOREST – MINING CORPORATION COLLAHUASI – REGIONAL GOVERNMENT.
• BUDGET: 505.000 US DOLAR
• CONSTRUCTED SURFACE: 320 m2
• YEAR OF DESIGN: MAY, 2011
• YEAR CONSTRUCTION: NOVEMBER, 2013