Guayacan Pavillion / Ambrosi I Etchegaray

Textual content description supplied by the architects. After discovering sprouts of the endangered and endemic Guaiacum coulteri species, Fundación Casa Wabi created a nursery for the care and copy of Guayacan tree. The Guayacan Nursery is discovered upon getting into the realm of Casa Wabi space, subsequent to the doorway. It’s the first pavilion by location and the fourth intervention inside this advanced. Nonetheless, because of its situation of being half underground, and surrounded by vegetation, it could seem unnoticed.

Contact a tree at evening. What does it let you know?

Now place your ear upon the trunk. What do you hear?

Do it once more within the morning, through the wet season, within the following months, and through the season of drought. What’s totally different?

Is it not apparent that every part is altering?

That we must always all transition between warmth and chilly, between water and thirst, between presence and void, between life and dying?

From these beginnings and resistances, the wabi-sabi structure of Guayacán Pavilion was born. The work is an expression of materiality and house itself, the place the structure, developed by the workplace of AMBROSI ETCHEGARAY, conceived a nursery that in its transition throughout house and time advantages from its deterioration or its assimilation into the panorama, into nature, the origin of all issues. With minimal use of supplies, it finds its most expression in presenting and nurturing the “Guaiacum Sanctum L. Zygophyllaceae”, colloquially often called Guayacán, is an endemic tree included within the SEMARNAT record of endangered species.

With the aim of defending the species, Casa Wabi, with help from the Environmental Administration Unit (UMA), determined to create a nursery for the care and copy of the Guayacán. A challenge that, from its inception, the authors understood the architect would solely be a medium for the expressions that nature provided, so that they conceived of a brand new nursery that invitations the customers and guests to descend into the ensuing paths beneath the bottom degree that allowed for a more in-depth interplay to the timber to be able to understand the temperature, the humidity of the ambiance, the movement of air, and the connection between the species and the groundwater.

By way of an imperfect magnificence and magnificence in austerity, the pavilion opens with a big shade that capabilities as the doorway threshold whereas concurrently producing a resting place for the employees and guests the place the solar, water, and air turn into obvious and invite us to watch the Guayacán shut up, to acquaint or reacquaint ourselves with it in a setting that expresses the depth, emotion, intelligence, and mysticism. One continues to stroll via the seedlings that ensue upon a sequence of labor tables whose kind are the stays of the excavation. By way of this alteration in degree, the place the ethic seeks to take care of the setting in addition to to respect those that work there, the personnel accountable for the vegetation considerably cut back bodily exertion as they clear and take care of the brand new timber on the work tables and keep away from bending over to work on the floor. Guayacán Pavilion is undoubtedly a piece of latest structure that’s dedicated to an aesthetic, the environment, the passage of time, and the take care of our land.