Las Cruces Lookout Point

Project Details

Project Name
Las Cruces Lookout Point
Location
JaliscoMexico
Architect
Elemental
Project Types
Cultural
Project Scope
New Construction
Shared By
angcook21
Project Status
Built
Year Completed
2010
Team
Principal: Alejandro Aravena

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.

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