Description:
Los Andes, as an unexplored territory, is where the investigation and developing experience of the Andes Workshop is settled. Is here where a huge amount of establishments could achieve the domestication of their territory, where the complex locations and scarcity of resources are understood as a virtue that are part of the design, developing and construction process of solutions that give the territory an specific value defying these territorial endeavors capable of understanding the system as a total, where the communal job is comprehended under the reciprocity concept.
Andes Workshop presents an experimental exercise, where the interdisciplinary and the contact with the community where the problems are develop, are absolutely neccesary to find answers.
The Workshop will be developed in Lo Castillo Neighborhood, in Casa Aira. It will be organized and guided by Cazú Zegers and Grupo Talca (both chilean and recognized architects). This experience combine investigation and teaching with culture and thoughts, from an humanist and transversal spirit.
Andes Workshop offers the opportunity to live, 2 months, the experience of working in a collaborative way with students, graduated architects, tutor architects and other disciplines in the investigation, development and construction of a proyect proponed in the Maipo River Valley, where the territorial, landscaping and environmental problems are the study base to inform proposals from the local processes; so that these ones can be able to give value to the fragile land that currently is being threatened by several projects.
