Con-Text, the proposal for HW2018

HelloWood started as an art camp in 2010 in Hungary, and over the years, it has become a global center for architects, designers and carpenters looking for new ways to share and produce knowledge. Since 2017, in addition to the activities in Europe, HelloWood holds an annual camp in Argentina.

In this context, NOA was selected as one of the architectural practices to lead a project for HelloWood 2018 in its Argentinian edition.

Convergences: An anomaly in the landscape

For the development of the project, we had 1 linear km of wood slats, screws and the environment, a plain in the province of Entre Ríos in the Estancia Los Azotes near the city of Ceibas.

The structure arises as an anomaly that stands out in the landscape, a wall that interrupts the once uninterrupted horizon, forcing to deviate, but at the same time inviting to enter. The warped, opaque and translucent planes open and close perspectives and propose a new way of experiencing the landscape and the sky. The path that seems to open closes and forces us to rethink how to continue, a new space opens in which the enclosure proposes a moment to observe the sky and why not, produce the unexpected casual crossing with the other.

CREDITS

client > HelloWood
location >Ceibas,  Entre Ríos, Argentina
site area > – / –
built area > 28 m2 / 301 sqft
project > 2018
construction > 2018
status > built

author > Oliverio Najmias
design collaborators >  Shai Ben Ami, Martina Huergo, Charles Weinberg
HW collaborators >  Martina Huergo, Jorge Dumas, Matías Giovenali, Romina Jerez, Marina Lerici, Mohibes Saliva, Ana Spagnolo, Bianca Vezzi