The Hotel Awasi Patagonia manages to blend itself with the landscape through the location and use of materials of the different volumes that form rooms and common areas.
The design of Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido for the new Hotel in Chile is based on several cabins scattered over a plain that offer impressive views of their surrounding environment due of their location.
 

Description of the project by Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido

The hotel is located 6 kilometers from the Torres del Paine National Park, three hours from the nearest town center, and it is formed by twelve rooms and their common areas. It began with the self-imposed condition of hiding it in the landscape; the vastness of the Patagonian plain did not allow the interruption of a "building" in a place of permanent silence. That is why we opted for isolated units, like cabins "scattered" in the meadow at the edge of a forest composed of Lenga, Ñirre and Cohigue.

The design, which originates in the traditional constructions of the extreme south of Chile, leaves the structure practically outside the enclosures by pillars organized by a grid of approximately one meter. The fragility and humidity of the terrain suggested high "palafito" constructions, and the distance and the hard climate conditions made us prefabricate most of the hotel.

The modulation of the pillars facing the forest and the choice of wood (Lenga), which over time acquires a platinum tone, added to a precise location for each unit, make the the buildings be mixed with the landscape in certain conditions.

We planned for those who were going to build. Nothing that could not be done with local technologies and their precarious and scarce labor was designed. There were no sophisticated constructive details as they were not important. In that way, we avoided all possible mistakes that would be difficult and expensive to correct. And we adopted that premise as a design methodology.

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Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido.
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Trinidad Schönthaler and Sebastian Delpino.
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2014.
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Felipe Assadi is architect from Finis Terrae University 1996, and Master of Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. In 1999 he received the 'Premio Promoción Joven' of the Association of Architects of Chile, awarded to the best architect under 35 of the country.

He has taught at several Chilean universities and other foreigners in Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Colombia and USA. From 2011 he serves as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Finis Terrae University.

He has been invited to lecture in Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Argentina, USA, Italy and Spain. His work has been widely published in several countries in magazines like Wallpaper and Architectural Review in London, Arquitectura Viva and AV Monografías in Madrid, Architectural Record in NY, GA Tokyo, Domus and Casabella in Italy among others and in specialized books around the world.

He has participated in exhibitions in Barcelona, ​​Pamplona, ​​London, Quito, Tokyo and Santiago. His work has been developed in Chile, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, United States, Ecuador and Colombia.

Nowadays he has four monographs, in Chile, Spain, Korea and Argentina.


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