Landscape architectures in the south pacific desert between undoing and not doing

A project photographic review from the redistribution of the nature concept in the theory of "untouchable soil and removable ecological work", as new infrastructures for the Atacama desert

Authors

  • Esteban Balcarce

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47796/ra.2020i18.442

Keywords:

Landscape architecture, untouchable soil, ecological work

Abstract

The disconnection of architecture with the natural soil in an arid landscape and its possibility of freeing it from it in a series of works that were projected to be disassembled at some future time, this when the work reaches its useful life, in addition to the use of materials Biodegradable in their constitution, they are a foundational part of this landscape.
The enhancement of permanent traditional construction techniques in desert settlements, among others the “Quincha” type construction system (reeds, wood, straw, earth), also projecting all its paths in bischofita (compacted salt), the use of walls of blocks of white salt worked from the salt flats of the Atacama desert, all these materials without major industrial or technological processes, but rather as raw material of the place for artisan work, approaching a tectonic revaluation in architecture and its reaction to the industrial from a vision of crafts and fine arts in the trade and technical and traditional work.

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Author Biography

Esteban Balcarce

Doctorando en Arquitectura y Dinámicas Urbanas en la escuela de postgrado de la Universidad Privada de Tacna, egresado de la Maestría en Arquitectura Paisajista de la misma universidad, actualmente en estancia académica en la escuela de doctorado de arquitectura y problemas urbanos de la Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 2020

Published

2021-03-02

How to Cite

Balcarce, E. (2021). Landscape architectures in the south pacific desert between undoing and not doing: A project photographic review from the redistribution of the nature concept in the theory of "untouchable soil and removable ecological work", as new infrastructures for the Atacama desert. Arquitek, (18), 115–139. https://doi.org/10.47796/ra.2020i18.442

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Reflection Articles