Hotel Parinacota
"This hotel has to be like a beating heart, which brings back life and generates new energies that were thought lost. For its development and design, it was necessary to understand the cosmovisión (world views) of the native and original cultures who lived in the place in which the hotel would stand" said by Cazú Zegers.
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Cosmovisión or Indigenous knowledge
The knowledge that an indigenous (local) community accumulates over time, living in a certain environment. This definition encompasses all forms of knowledge—technologies, skills, practices, and beliefs—that allow the community to achieve a stable standard of living in its environment. There are a series of terms that are used interchangeably to refer to the concept of indigenous knowledge, including traditional knowledge, indigenous technical knowledge, local knowledge and indigenous knowledge system” (Hess, J & Storbel, J, 2013).
Hotel Parinacota
Architect Cazú Zegers
Poetic Narrative Miguel Laborde
Putre, región de Arica, Chile
Architectural Team: Gabriel Rudolphy & lan Hsu
Investigation: Yolanda Muñoz
2013
Renders: Sebastián Daher
Hotel Parinacota
2013The commission consisted of designing a hotel in Putre, northern Chile, with the purpose of creating a tri-national circuit. This would connect the national parks of Bolivia and Peru through the volcanoes located in the territory. Its design was inspired by the ancestral terraces of the Incas found in the northern territory of Chile. It is from the imitation of the terraces that the geometric and abstract rooms emerge to make this link between the vernacular and the contemporary. Timber as a material sought to blend in with the desert colors of the territory so as not to impose itself on the landscape, but rather to position itself as another terrace of those left by the Inca people.