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SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

Team: Gonzalo Cordova, Mercedes Muiño, Agustin Terrizzano, Natalia Marino

The hypothesis organizing this experience aims to discover the mechanisms through which nature and humans can coexist in perfect harmony. In our particular case, we focus on light as a structure of visibility and comfort, thereby narrowing the field of experimentation.

Our project seeks to address the problems that arise in environments where access to natural light is difficult or at least limited to a few hours a day. This issue is articulated through two conflicting axes that relate natural habitat with the protection and visibility necessary for the development of life in society.

To address this, we propose situating the setting in a complex terrain, where light and habitat coexist in a metastable relationship that demands a unifying project. The design, in this case, will be the projection of the possibility of coexistence between the parts. Light and habitat as a necessary structure and project model.

Returning to the central axis as a light distributor. By taking light as the organizing principle of architecture, we consider its proper- ties as structural axes of the project. For this, we chose direction and position as the main elements of the artifact.

The central axis: DIRECTION
A linear sequence: TIME
A dome that covers the controllable habitat: FORM

In the third case, it is a space surrounded by pure light, pure visibility, in which the habitat is the reduction or suppression of visibility until an environment with specific uses and functions is "produced."