A water tower is a technical problem; strictly technical?
Once the technology is resolved, we understand the project as a building in a particular location. As a challenge related to context and implementation. A forest is a delicate place; no matter how many trees we have, they are always too few.
A construction of this kind develops an impact that is necessary to cushion. The building could dissolve, blend, as far as possible, into the mass of trees, becoming a part of the forest and the animals and plants, so they understand.
The building is then projected with an approach to nature, from its fragmentation, its multiplicity, its color and textures. But also from its ability to change and transform with aging as a natural part of its life. Perhaps this could be a building that calls nature, but also teaches that it is possible to live without subtracting the natural beauty, practically nothing; and that architecture has its heart to complement the environment, folding if necessary, as this proposal respects.
This is definitely an architecture that assumes the risk of coexistence and makes it its own. This project is definitely a landscape.
Stunned by the visual impact of a single deposit, we opted for a solution that raises two deposits, fragmented in their coatings to provide a light and aerial image. Shells and their shanks, structurally different skins, are coated in wood, offering a dynamic and vivid image, moving in rhythm with the natural whole. These skins assume the habitats of different species of birds that colonize the proposal and also assume the existence of a certain level of vegetation. The proposal is therefore a possibility that nature continues doing its job of coexistence. It is a hotbed of biodiversity.
The commitment to the use of wood symbolizes the context of the place but also declares a commitment to sustainability and the development of industries and crafts. It is a proposal that belongs to us.
There is not much more to comment on the technical side, well-known and amply developed, neatly resolved by the engineers; it only has the spirit of serving us, not destroying nature but complementing it.
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