Project Details
- Project Name
- Las Cruces Lookout Point
- Project Types
- Cultural
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 148 sq. meters
- Year Completed
- 2010
- Shared by
- Angela Cook
- Team
- Alejandro Aravena, Principal
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECT:
We were one of several firms asked to re-imagine rest stops along a Mexican pilgrimage route. Building in such a remote place should generate an architecture able to age as if it were a natural element. So, we thought of a kind of hollowed stone, bent to rest calmly on the hill side, and whose only purpose is to offer pilgrims a resting place with dark shadows, cross-ventilation and two vantage points, one: a view over the path they walked for a hundred kilometers to arrive there, the other, the landscape ahead.