The first exercise of the year, a shelter for archeologists in Tiermes, presents us the dialectics of something natural like the wall chosen to be the siting; and something artificial such as the construction of the shelter suggested.

I was highly interested in experimenting with the architecture’s capacity of being integrated and merged in the environment while solving an specific issue.
The solution came as a light and ephemeral spacial structure, which could be easily assembled and disassembled as well as placed at other locations on the mountain ledge.
In the longitudinal balcony, overhanging and open to the landscape, highlights the horizontal of the mountain ridge and modifies its image by imposing a new outline which ends transforming the place.
The transparency of the nets, as well as providing a changing game of lights and shadow, adds to the enclosure a plus of enjoyment and relaxation by the contemplation of the distant landscape.

Over all, the distant perception of this intervention, allows to verify the ability of the architecture to integrate geometry and nature.

The answer to the second activity, a pavilion to exhibit archaeological remains, came from the idea of exploring the architecture’s structural and modular capacity to create versatile spaces, with different lenth and height wich, activated by the light, would be capable of solving the proposed program.

The game generated between the longitudinal disposition of the pieces, which sometimes acts like walls, and the transversal ones, which act as beams, create a floor with different entrances, internally marked out by “patios” which generate alternative routes around them.
Externally talking, the structure draws directly the image of the pavilion’s elevations.
Its uneven outline, at the same time as being cut out of the landscape, conveys to the viewer the existence of interior spaces built at different heights.
Internally, the ceiling’s compression y desompression, caused by the changeable elevation in which the beams are placed, make it possible to create differenciated áreas within the same fluid, non-compartmentalized spaces. The natural light, filtered through the slots, will allow the passage of time to enter.

The tension between the geometric abstraction of the pavilion and the organic and rugged territory of Tiermes where it is located, caused, in this case, a different dialogue, between arquitecture and nature.