Our strategy was to fragment the program into three buildings, generating a kind of village with terraces and different accesses, creating a wide variety of spatial scenarios. The other major challenge was to develop all the facades with more than 20,000 logs of different species and sizes that were on the site. To prevent humidity from rotting them, the entire bark was manually removed, the building was raised one meter from the ground, and the log walls were separated 20cm from the envelope of the building to allow air to circulate freely between them.
From the first moment light was one of the central themes of the building. To strengthen the light that passes through the perforated walls we decided that all the internal walls should be made of translucent glass, generating a light play that changes during the day and that also varies throughout the year. Just as the building carries light into its interior during the day, at night the opposite effect occurs. The skin of the building generates an ambiguous wrapping that changes the way it shows manifests both externally and internally, going from from opaque to translucent, from dense to ethereal, the architecture that was generated by simple materials and construction techniques becomes complex.