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Todos Santos, Mexico
Architects: Rubén Valdez
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Area: 185 m²
Year
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Year: 2024
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Category: Installations & Structures
Architect In Charge: Rubén Valdez
Team Lead: Federico Serna
Landscape Architecture: Luis Guisar
City: Todos Santos
Country: Mexico
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Text description provided by the architects. A secular ceremonial space that maintains a close dialogue with the landscape and sky of the Baja California Sur desert. The circular enclosure is semi-buried in the ground, symbolizing its integration with the surrounding landscape and, at the same time, presenting itself as a discreet intervention in the desert.
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The space is primarily composed of a concrete ring, with a bare earth floor that exposes the natural soil and an open sky ceiling, thus reinforcing a transcendental connection with the land and the cosmos.
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The shape of the structure carefully frames the surrounding landscape, with a semicircular opening that offers views of the distant mountains, while the skies are defined by the circular wall. The structure is oriented along an east-west axis, allowing the movement of the sun to reflect both the passage of time and the ever-changing nuances of light in the desert.
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