Hotel Tierra Patagonia
"Contemporary man, and due to his long domestication process, is not equipped to survive the outside world without protection. This is why architecture must be a sensitive second skin that allows us to experience the strength and beauty of a natural space, without demystifying it. Inhabiting almost without leaving a trace. From a light and precarious position, architecture respectfully adds to the natural heritage".
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Light and Precarious
Architectural proposal by the Chilean architect Cazú Zegers that seeks to carry out minimal interventions, establishing a balanced link with nature, creating a landscape that does not demystify the territory, but on the contrary, enhances it. In this approach, the precarious, far from being poor, becomes virtuous. It is characterized by being an artistic posture from Latin America to the world.
Hotel Tierra Patagonia
Architect Cazu Zegers
Associated Architects Rodrigo Ferrer - Roberto Benavente
Torres del Paine, Chile
Structure Concrete and Timber
Structural Engineer: Enzo Valladares y Asociados VPA
2011
Technical Inspection Coz Cia. ltda - Gustavo Soto
Photographs Pia Vergara - Cristobal Palma - Jame Florio - Morten Andersen - Christian Spies - Addison Jones
Constructed Area — 4900 m²
Area— 70 hectareas
Hotel Tierra Patagonia
2011The hotel is located at the northern entrance of the Torres del Paine National Park, on the shores of Lake Sarmiento, which in turn is the boundary with the National Park. The gesture of the building arises from the shapes drawn by the wind, a characteristic natural element of the area. The form seeks not to break into the metaphysical landscape of the place, but to join in. The image of the hotel is that of an ancient fossil
of some prehistoric animal, stranded on the shore of the lake. The vegetation that was located in the territory where the hotel was going to be built was lifted and stored in a greenhouse so that later, upon completion of construction, it could return to its original space and cover the architectural work.
Gesture-Figure-Form
It is a methodology devised by Cazú Zegers at the beginning of her career to develop an architectural project based on drawing. The gesture of the project appears thanks to the observation of the territory and is then transferred to paper. From the drawing of the gesture, the figure and form of the project is found in a process where the gesture is dematerialized.
