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  • Andes Workshop
    2017

    Andes Workshop is a collaborative platform that promotes interdisciplinary and international workshops that develop a group of teachers with students from all over the world. To do this, students and teachers work together with the communities and incorporate their ways of doing things, “with what they have at hand” or the “low tech” methodology of the chosen places. This work generates the creation of a plaza or architectural element which is names as an object-sign. This helps to opens the territory to new uses and enhances the landscape.

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  • Fundación + 1000
    2020

Projects

The Andes Mountains as an unexplored territory is where Andes Workshop's research and development experience is based.
Each workshop offers the opportunity to experience, for a certain period of time, a new way of relationship between communities, students, professionals and tutors, through collaborative and interdisciplinary work.
All this experience takes place in a vast and diverse territory, so the focus is also on the research, development and construction of a work where territorial, landscape and environmental problems are the basis of study to inform the proposals through local processes.
With this, the aim is to establish an independent point of cultural activity, far from traditional centers, participating in the formation of new exchange models such as: promotion, communication and appreciation of architecture and landscape, arts and culture.
Ultimately, this is an experiential exercise, where interdisciplinary work and contact with communities are absolutely necessary to find answers.

Some projects carried out under Andes Workshop are:
Threshold of the Volcanoes and Threshold of Plazoleta Negra.

Umbral de los Volcanes

In order not to demystify the territory, but rather to generate infrastructure capable of supporting the Pehuenche worldview, the Mirador de los Volcanes or also known as Mirador Patachoique was created; initial trigger of what would become the Ruta Pehuenche project. This landmark has also been positioned as a meeting place and belongs to a system of thresholds that Cazú Zegers has defined as territorial signs. These minimal architectural gestures are capable of opening up the landscape to generate new destinations. This project began by valuing the potential of the territory, reacting to the poverty of the communities and the danger of imminent development that affected the great natural and cultural heritage of the place. The Pehuenche Route as a project integrates a series of elements typical of the innovative contemporary discipline called ethnoengineering.

Umbral de los Volcanes

Architect Cazu Zegers

Architects Rodrigo Sheward y Martín del Solar (Grupo Talca). 

Chile

Tutors Santiago Elortegui, Teresa Montero, Claudio Valdés-Mujica, Francisca Sacie, Nicolás Ducci y Hector Ducci.

Volunteers Shinka Antista, Claudio Merek, Benjamín Fernández, Emilio Molina, Florencia Mardini, Loreto Mellado. 

2017

Coordination Margarita Belmar y René Reyes.

Place Lonquimay Región de la Araucanía, Chile.

Umbral de los Volcanes

In order not to demystify the territory, but rather to generate infrastructure capable of supporting the Pehuenche worldview, the Mirador de los Volcanes or also known as Mirador Patachoique was created; initial trigger of what would become the Ruta Pehuenche project. This landmark has also been positioned as a meeting place and belongs to a system of thresholds that Cazú Zegers has defined as territorial signs. These minimal architectural gestures are capable of opening up the landscape to generate new destinations. This project began by valuing the potential of the territory, reacting to the poverty of the communities and the danger of imminent development that affected the great natural and cultural heritage of the place. The Pehuenche Route as a project integrates a series of elements typical of the innovative contemporary discipline called ethnoengineering.

Umbral de los Volcanes

Architect Cazu Zegers

Architects Rodrigo Sheward y Martín del Solar (Grupo Talca). 

Chile

Tutors Santiago Elortegui, Teresa Montero, Claudio Valdés-Mujica, Francisca Sacie, Nicolás Ducci y Hector Ducci.

Volunteers Shinka Antista, Claudio Merek, Benjamín Fernández, Emilio Molina, Florencia Mardini, Loreto Mellado. 

2017

Coordination Margarita Belmar y René Reyes.

Place Lonquimay Región de la Araucanía, Chile.

Umbral de Plazoleta Negra

The Plazoleta Negra Threshold is located at curve number 22 on the road to Farellones (Santiago de Chile). As a gesture of marking the territory, the small square has three sculptures by the Chilean artist Vicente Gajardo. This milestone was built with volunteers, students, teachers, the community of pirquero teachers of Farellones and the Mountain Department of the Municipality of Lo Barnechea.

Umbral de Plazoleta Negra

Architect Cazu Zegers

Field Coordination Diego Abumohor

Chile

Grupo Talca Rodrigo Sheward & Martín del Solar

Pirquero Master Humberto Gallardo

2018

Volunteers Jesús Chuquipoma – Eduardo Valderrama

Sculptures Vicente Gajardo

Pirqueros Nacho Cáceres – Alfredo Aguilera – Carlos Aguilera

Kiiran Films / Cristián Silva-Avaria