RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge / Gonzalo Iturriaga Atala – Free Autocad Blocks & Drawings Download Center

Architects: Gonzalo Iturriaga Atala
Location: San Esteban, Chile
Area: 60.0 m2
Project Year: 2016
Photography: Federico Cairoli

Text description provided by the architects. The commission consisted of a roof, a kitchen, a bathroom and one room. The necessary to start at dawn the route traced the day before.

The proposal consists in constructing through planes and angles a cover that in its folds allows the entrance and in its cuts the exterior views. Composed of a central corp of services, the form is established from folds that correlatively determine it interior and exterior.

At one end the main room and a secondary room for mountain implements. At the other end, a common enclosure where the mountain leads the view towards the outside.

The shel composed of pine wood, metal elements and crystals are transformed to fulfill two functions, structural and volumetric.

Using a ventilated facade on all sides and a system of piles, the shelter functions as a hermetic element suspended on the ground that from specific openings uses the rising current of the mountain to ventilate its interior.

It is the point of arrival and departure to each course defined by the mountaineer, a monitoring and rest station that gives in a privileged place the opportunity to contemplate and visit. Here is the refuge.