Project by Sofia Paniagua Posca @sofiipaniagua
This project begins with entanglement — the physical and conceptual relationship between architecture and forest. In a subtropical landscape, roots tangle underground, light filters through canopy, and paths form through accumulated movement. Architecture here cannot be autonomous; it acknowledges its role within these woven systems. A line — a path traced intuitively across sloped terrain — becomes the generative principle. Informed by existing conditions (slope, clearings, streams), the path creates a non-conventional grid: a set of rules from which buildings emerge. Kitchen, workshop, library, and dwellings scatter along this wandering line, organized not by imposed order but by response. The architecture does little. Thin concrete planes, stepping floors, low walls, wooden louvers, and fabric curtains frame space without dominating it. Buildings rest lightly on terrain or follow its descent in terraced platforms. The experience alternates between drift and gathering — solitude in forest passages, community where paths converge. The forest remains primary.
