Resource efficiency in the Peruvian desert. Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María

09/09/2022. [Fundo Salcedo] Peru
metalocus, DIEGO DOMÍNGUEZ GONZÁLEZ

The Tamiz project, designed by architect Carlos Pastor Santa María, is located in the southern coastal desert of Peru, in the region of the same name, Ica. The area's good climate and fertile soil make the site where the project is located ideal for growing fruit and pecan trees.

Tamiz's proposal aims to return to the roots, to the old houses of the Peruvian desert, while at the same time aiming for the hacienda to fit in well with the place where it is located.

Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María. Photograph by Marines Herrera Otero y Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María. Photograph by Marines Herrera Otero y Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Sketch. Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Ground floor plan. Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Section. Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Axonometric. Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Carlos Pastor Santa María has oriented the façade of the Tamiz project so that it receives sunlight from the beginning of the day, filtering it through a reed screen so that the interior receives a degraded, torn, and pleasant light. The layout is designed to observe the path of sunlight during the day at any time of the year.

Due to the materials used, such as wood and cane, natural to the area, the project is light and lightweight and can be easily lifted off the ground, allowing air to pass underneath and between its three roofs. The panels include windows to increase the communication between the interior and the exterior which is already present thanks to the cane.

The climate and seasons of the area mean that the summer months are particularly hot and with high solar radiation, while the winter is cold and dry, so the architect wanted to use native vegetation to adapt his project to this extreme climate. This also achieves a good aesthetic harmony with the environment and the landscape of the Peruvian coast.

Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María. Photograph by Marines Herrera Otero y Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Description of project by Carlos Pastor Santa María

The Tamiz project is located in the south of the great Peruvian coastal desert, in the region and department of the same name, Ica. It is an extensive and fertile desert inhabited since pre-Hispanic times - among others - by the Nazca and Paracas cultures.

This project, Tamiz, is located in a unique space, a traditional hacienda, where the fertile soil of southern Peru is cultivated with fruit and pecan trees that develop generously due to the climate.

Tamiz allows rest and contemplation for visitors to the hacienda. It tries to capture the sunlight from dawn, to filter it and recover the memory of the old mansions of the coastal desert of southern Peru. The project is inserted and arrives lightly to conjugate with its place. It rests on the site in an appropriate manner, filters the light of dawn second by second and catches every last ray of afternoon light with a plane of reed cane, gathered from the site and woven into its façade. It is oriented in such a way that it generates a delicate comfort to live with its inhabitant at all times.

The project proposes, as a main strategy, a large façade, a reed sieve, which receives all the radiation of the sunrise from the south coast and generates a gradient of torn lights throughout the day. It proposes a generous and honest distribution with a receipt to observe the light and its path throughout the day in both summer and winter.

The structural system of the project allows it to be suspended, it is light, efficient and gives freedom to the passage of air underneath and between its three roofs. In addition, the passive strategies allow the necessary comfort, both in summer and in the cold and dry winter.

The enclosures are made of wood and cane panels, materials typical of the Peruvian coast. They are arranged according to the functionality of the space. Those of the social area are woven on site and this allows a change of scene with the play of light and shadow, second by second. To see or not to see, inside or outside... This strategy democratises the use, perception and freedom of the inhabitant.

The cane panels combined with the windows and the wood protect the private place and allow a shadow that sifts the space, from inside to outside and from outside to inside, this lightens the spatial sensation due to the cane arranged on a large plane. The suspended project gives a pedestal feel with its floor-to-ceiling spans in each living space.

The project was entirely fabricated by our team. We developed the process of each part up to the assembly of the project. Dilations and contractions of each detail, how the different materials are joined... All of them, the cane, the wood and the steel, contribute from their form, function and lightness. They frame and develop each room.

The climate on the southern Peruvian coast is characterised by short summer months with lots of sunshine and a long, cold, sunny but dry winter. For this reason, each element is part of a system that assimilates the vegetation as part of the project. The project alone does not work. Nature and landscaping complete the shelter and invade it generously in texture, colour and aroma. Adorning the visual fluidity conjugated with the light of the southern coastal desert.

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Architects

Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Project team

Marines Herrera Otero, Carlos Daniel Elías Chero, Diego Sánchez López.

Collaborators

Profiles and Angles - Aceros Arequipa.
Fleet Color polyurethane enamel - Sherwin Williams.
Windows/shutters - Corrales Center.
Wood - Local Warehouse.
Bamboo - Local Warehouse.

Area

80 sqm.

Dates

Completion of construction - July 2022.

Location

Fundo Salcedo, Ica, Peru.

Photography

Marines Herrera Otero y Carlos Pastor Santa María.

Carlos Pastor Santa María

Carlos Pastor Santa María is an architect born in Peru. In 2006 he graduated from Ricardo Palma University (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism) in Lima, Peru, and in 2013 he also graduated from the Military Engineering School for Architecture and Urbanism officers in the same city. A year later he was at the Postgraduate School of Architecture with a mention in project management (University of Piura) in Piura, Peru.

The Peruvian architect has been recognized with various awards and mentions: in 2016 he was the winner of the Space Apps Challenge 2016, organized by NASA, with the project Kuelep Space, in 2017 he was the winner of the National contest Resilient Peru, Organized by the Ministry of Production of Peru with the project: "Low-cost sustainable housing for rural areas", in 2018 he was selected among the 60 best Latin American architects under 35 years old for the YALA event organized by Architecture Studio de Paris, collateral event Venice Biennale FREE SPACE and in 2019 he was selected representing Peru for XI BIAU Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo 2019 in Paraguay.

In 2020 he started teaching at the Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru.

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Resource efficiency in the Peruvian desert. Tamiz by Carlos Pastor Santa María

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