MAPUCHE WEAVING CULTURAL CENTER
THESIS/2017
Universidad Católica, Studio
Master in Sustainability and Energy Efficiency.
Professors: Mauricio Lama, Pablo Sills
The project promotes a reinterpretation of the Indian Mapuche spatiality as a starting point to create a new sustainable and contemporary architecture that has social relevance.
The program is a Cultural Centre and Factory of Mapuche textiles. This is because the studio asked to create a rural productive sustainable community. The project intends to use the volumes in consideration of their position within the geography, climate, heights and views, all of these according to the local techniques of construction.
The project separates the activities of the program in volumes, and their particular characteristics are given by the humidity and temperature necessities of each one. The textile process has various steps of wool treatment and weaving, and these are differentiated for it’s best product outcome. The shape of each volume was given by a formal study of vernacular Mapuche ways of constructing space, lead by the Master Thesis that complemented this project.
The program is a Cultural Centre and Factory of Mapuche textiles. This is because the studio asked to create a rural productive sustainable community. The project intends to use the volumes in consideration of their position within the geography, climate, heights and views, all of these according to the local techniques of construction.
The project separates the activities of the program in volumes, and their particular characteristics are given by the humidity and temperature necessities of each one. The textile process has various steps of wool treatment and weaving, and these are differentiated for it’s best product outcome. The shape of each volume was given by a formal study of vernacular Mapuche ways of constructing space, lead by the Master Thesis that complemented this project.
Territorial Analysis, Climate, Culture, Community and Landscape
Project Drawings
Sustainability Simulations
