Refuge Of Cowboys Architect : Andres Lillo Coria

Refuge Of Cowboys

Architect : Andres Lillo Coria

This work is the outcome of the process by which obtained their Architect´s diploma at the School of Architecture, University of Talca in Chile. It involved all phases from Design and management to actually building a work of architecture which contributes to the public.

Conversation between the graduated and a cowboy who raises the "veranadas" during the construction of the project.

Cowboy: ....And what are you doing?
Student: A refuge for you.
Cowboy: For Us?, Oh my god that’s nice
Student: ...
Cowboy: Hey, I have the same wood tables at my home!
Student: ...
Cowboy: It’s useful to study...
The project is located in the Region of Maule’s Andes Mountains, specifically a sector called “El Melado”, where the booth of the river receives 55 families that have developed a domestic economy, sustaining their needs with the resources that obtain from place; they visit not very often the urban center.

The cowboy appears as neuralgic issue in the local economy guiding every year 5000 heads of cows from the lowest zones, to the "veranadas" as a place of destination, in the highest places of the mountain chain, involving from the owner of the cows up to whom interact along the "veranadas", nourishing this way the economy.

External agents who knows the natural local resources, beauty and lucky of this remote place, have introduced a new economy reinventing the job of the cowboy, turning it into tourist guide of foreign visitors.
With a job, routes and consolidated detentions, arises the need to materialize a issue, having clear that the offer is a refuge for cowboys, the search treated the following conditions:

a. A design intimately tied to the territory, geography and climate, must be a light shade in summer but also support the load of snow in winter allowing the slide.

b. The wood of pine is the material that once I insert acts in a less aggressive way, being added to the existing landscape, and also generating a great size to a low cost.

c. There is solved the need of shade and cover, being inserted in the landscape without interrupting it. In this way, the add of the element {table} manages to compose a system of plate, which even operating as block, manages to be transparent, allowing to see the landscape.

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