Customers interested in doing research on body language in the indigenous cultures of the Ecuadorian Amazon. With the information obtained after an immersion process, will develop a pilot workshop that will seek the transfer of Amazonian indigenous world view to an expression that combines theater, dance and performance.
After winning a grant fund of the Ministry of Culture of Ecuador can fund his research, part of the fund plans to build a space to develop the workshop. The limited resources available and a rectangular concrete platform at a rural property in Atahualpa which conducted the initial stage of the project, makes the obvious solution that customers intend to be a warehouse structure, covered with polycarbonate sheets .
Before starting the investigation of two months in the Amazon community Rukullacta, researchers want to leave space solved the workshop where he made his return. Before taking sides for or against the suggested barn, we decided to talk to investigators about the scope of the project and understand that at the time a project is not certain, just know that after immersion where you will find working with workshops and even in this process two months work will not have a clear awareness of what you need, the project see it as a constant building process rather than a final goal. This uncertainty clearly defining the needs of the space becomes the engine of the design process.
With no clear what kind of research to be done and knowing that space affects the activity we are concerned that the shed prejudice its development. The plant forms orthogonal hierarchies inevitably have to use. The circle, on the other hand, helps create a neutral environment, without hierarchies, where the movement is influenced as little as possible for the space, benefiting from experimentation.
Within the project were provided for three stages in different places: The Rukullacta research, development workshop in Atahualpa, and presentations of results at different locations in the country. The final design variable appears alone, the space should be transportable, thus making use of scarce resources and multiply their functionality, the workspace becomes a performance space.
Responding to the need for transportation and easy assembly, the design seeks to reduce the frame elements to a minimum. A power system with twelve piles structure the project.
Influenced by Grotowski’s Poor Theatre of Lerzy the proposal is to minimize the additional elements they work with researchers, so we understand that the horizontal limit must not be transgressed, just high enough to work, serving as diffuser sunlight and is easy to transport and setup.
On the contrary, vertical limit, should maximize the versatility of space and avoiding prejudice the investigation. It creates a blurred line, austere and neutral as a penetrable barrier to insulate – integrating the environment depending on requirements. When you start the work on site is discovered that the space need not be involved in its entire perimeter, be open to this need, the sun is important in the process. The flexibility of the project can respond to this approach without altering it.
Clients and designers to work without bias, allowed a free approach to the project, opened the possibilities offered and provided space at all, so that the architectural space is included within the proposed methodology as an important variable in the research process.
