Landscape echoes

Landscape echoes is a response to the degradation of the landscape identity of the natural park due to urban growth linked to skiing. The design strategy integrates both realities through a contemporary reading of the local context, seeking to integrate perspectives and add value to the landscape interpretation through the interaction of architecture with nature, exposing a dynamic physical relationship that is nourished by the main climatic adversities of high mountains, water and wind, in order to make a virtue from necessity. Is it possible to educate through architecture in the landscape?

The project is evidenced as a narrative itinerary based on a series of natural paths capable of activating the resonance boxes that compose the proposal, allowing us to fully understand and enjoy the ‘genius loci’ through a balance of artificial and natural rhythms. The architecture is understood as a piece of reverberation capable of absorbing its own meaning by adapting temporarily to its needs and changing context, so the project is presented as a building-landscape through a dialogue between technology and context, artifice and nature. The extreme adversities of the climate mark the bioclimatic integration of the project, which manages to revert the need produced by the strong winds, the scarcity of water and solar radiation into architectural virtues through the modification of the sensitive temperature and the environmental management of water and light from the compositional design, whose objective is to define a flexible typology capable of optimising habitability and providing responses to future scenarios of uncertainty while reducing the environmental impact. The proposal is presented as a firm commitment to blur the boundary between architecture, engineering and nature, to generate opportunities for progress through interaction with nature with the aim of: defining new forms of sustainability, defining resilient architectural typologies, creating a viable economic model through the generation of energy in buildings and the enhancement of natural heritage and its accessibility through the educational capacity of architecture.