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To Inhabit the Water on the Mountain: Natural Spring Water Baths in the Andes

Part 2 Project 2006
Coll Drury
SuYin Chia
 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Santiago | Chile
The project, a hot spring water bath natural retreat, is inserted in a context of untouched geography and severe climatic conditions: mountain landscape, low temperatures, high solar radiation and snow levels up to 3 meters in winter.

Based on this context, the project pretends to generate conditions of habitability; to be IN FRONT and WITHIN the landscape, to be part of it. With this concept in mind, the way to proceed consists of the construction of a path, REconstructing the erosion that water produces on the slope land and turn this path into a circulation axis that relates a sequence of detentions as much for the foot as for the water, formed from cuts in the slope.
Coll Drury
SuYin Chia
Tutor(s)
2006
context_THE ANDES.
site_SPRING WATERS.
strategies_SUN + WATER + MASS + SKINS + SNOW + LANDSCAPE.
collage of elements.
objective image_EARTH CRACK.
construction of a (1) path, REconstructing the erosion that water produces on the slope land and turn this path into a circulation axis that relates a sequence of (2) detentions as much for the foot as for the water, formed from cuts in the slope (3)
the construction of the earth crack determines a "measure" for the human body in a context of brutal geography, thru the materialization of an irregular path.
(01)PATH_geographic situation. the project is added to the pre-existing water lines.
general plan.
(02)PAUSES. sequence of situations thru the ascending path.
detail of the hot water pools.
_detail of overflow pool _circuits of water: HOT + COLD + USED.
snow plan_rustic floor heating allows the use of the entire path in the SNOW SEASON.
(03)COMPLEMENTARY PROGRAM_excavated from the slope.
images_station + path
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