HUT YAKISUGI

OBSERVATIONS AND ARCHITECTURE

The project is located in the territories of Aysen, Chilean fjord, approximately 10km from Tortel. It’s aiming to find way of temporal settlement and extend itself to the sea, in and excersice to discover the way to live in the sea.

The first question is : How to know this territories in its deep and extension. There has been some expeditions to the southern ice fields, on kayak, activity that requieres several days to be completed. A refugge placed strategicly can offer a secure stay.

This islands with steep hills coexist with the sea and rivers, the buildings are posed in the fine line of the pacific ocean. Here the buildings deploy itself to the sea that alows connections

During the 20th century the arrival to this places was driven by the extraction of Ciprés de las Guaitecas (Pilgerodendron uviferum), to acomplish this task several kilometers were traveled by sea, once the job was done, the same wood was used to fabricate a boat to return with the goods.

During the trip back the boat was used to lunch, make fire, and rest. When they arrived they dissasembled the boat and all the wood were ready to sell.

This fragile and ephemeral ship can present a form of assembly that can be bring from one place to another. The project is thinked in a assembly logic that can be placed in a border of rocks and river, creating a treshold suspended over the sea.

To build this is necessary to consider support on a central axis that give freedom to produce a cantilever. I decide to elevate the interior of the building and distribute it on an open floor.

The kitchen is at the center, the central fire that allows the gathering, in the ends are the bedrooms, to rest and contemplate the nature and the extension of the territory.

The structure is considered in laminated wood that allows big lengths, 4 columns and 2 master beams. Every 244cm are placed wood rib structures for the walls that are made with SIP panels for a fast assembly, yakisugi wood is placed as the facade material.

Observations

IS IN THE CONVERGENCE OF THE HILLS WHERE THE SETTLEMENT CAN BE FOUND, AND WHEN IT TURNS TO THE SEA THE HORIZONTAL EXTENSION APPEARS. IT ANCHORS TO THE TERRAINS AND EXPAND ITSELF TO THE TERRITORY AND THE SEA

THE HORIZONTAL AXIS GIVEN BY THE WALKSIDE ALLOWS TO IDENTIFY THE CONTINUITY OF THE CITY, OPOSED BY THE VERTICALITY OF THE SURROINDINGS. THE CONTINUITY OF THE SEA ENHANCES THE CONTRAST WITH THE HILLS.