FADU - UBA / LIXIL International Student Architectural Competition

04/11/2019

17/05/2017

06/03/2017

MODELING, SCANNING, THINKING
We continue to work and increase our production. The way of working becomes the way of presentation.

13/02/2017

THINKING WITH HANDS, HOLLOWING OUT MODELS

Topophilia is a poetic and spiritual concept from which the perception of the space is mediated between the sensitive perception that is experienced through it, and the strong personal imaginative load through which the space acquires its value and its proper meaning. This space condition differentiate it from the measurable space of the physics or the geometry, adopting the category of "lived space".

02/02/2017

THINKING WITH THE PENCIL

It is necessary to establish a similarity between Japanese culture and the pre-Hispanic Andean world when it comes to the links between landscapes and traditional architectures. In the specific case of public baths, both cultures established a relationship between water, the spiritual scope and the landscape. It draws attention because of its deep meaning, due to the complex paraphernalia arranged in order to venerate spring, because of the meticulous knowledge of the natural environment, given the spiritual simplicity that it transmits. Not to mention the spiritual simplicity echoing the sound of water

22/01/2017

SPA IN THE NATURE
FADU team working on a new concept model

22/01/2017

INTRODUCTION
Here is the working team and the first impressions of the competition theme after weeks of talks and brainstorming

The worlds of the specifically architectural and the landscape will be seen as fused, not only visually but also in the vital use of the restrooms. The inner and outer limits will be diffused, ambiguous.
The ground will be the first tectonic material, understanding the excavation as the first of the constructions. The excavation will be planned and performed as if it were A Zen garden to be done in concrete. This circumstance implies a strategy that will be sustainable from the very beginning. The earth itself is a recipient matrix bowl, and there is in this action a nod to Japanese meticulousness in our actions. Do not forget that sustainability is, above all, cultural.
Applicability and relevance go in two ways. It has to do with the importance of the traditional Japanese Zen gardens. Furthermore, it is related to the American concept of folding and unfolding. There is in this double pertinence a gesture of syncretism to be strengthened.
Conceiving the TEMPLE OF THE WATERS like middle space between two worlds. The world of the earth: Concrete (grounded to the earth) Root and the world of the sky: Imagination (fly light in the air) Ethereal.