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To Inhabit the Water on the Mountain: Natural Spring Water Baths in the Andes

Part 2 Project 2006
SuYin Chia
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Santiago | Chile
The project, a hot spring water bath natural retreat, is inserted in a context of untouched geography and severe climatic conditions: mountain landscape, low temperatures, high solar radiation and snow levels up to 3 meters in winter.

Based on this context, the project pretends to generate conditions of habitability; to be IN FRONT and WITHIN the landscape, to be part of it. With this concept in mind, the way to proceed consists of the construction of a path, REconstructing the erosion that water produces on the slope land and turn this path into a circulation axis that relates a sequence of detentions as much for the foot as for the water, formed from cuts in the slope.

SuYin Chia

2006
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