PALE GREEN HOUSE
Type
Greenhouse / agricultural pavilion for medical cannabis production
Location
Puerto Varas, Chile
Year
2024
Status
Built
Architect / Design
Camila Mancilla Vera
Construction
Miguel Mancilla Martinich (MAVER)
Structure
Light steel frame with recycled steel columns and beams; greenhouse roof and walls in insulated glass and polycarbonate panels
Materials
Painted pale-green steel, reused steel profiles with natural rust patina, insulated glass, polycarbonate sheets, stone masonry base, timber inserts, concrete floor

“All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.”
— Paracelsus, (1538)
Pale Green House is a medical-cannabis barn that stages a dialogue between old and new steel. The primary structure is built from recycled columns and beams whose surfaces are marked by rust, scratches and weather. Around them, a new pale-green frame is added: crisp, smooth and carefully painted.
The design doesn’t hide corrosion; it uses it. The oxidized steel is left exposed as a living patina that registers the passage of time and the previous lives of the structure, while the mint-colored members mark the precise, clinical present of the greenhouse. Light, glass and vegetation move between these two temporal layers, turning the barn into a kind of instrument where production, healing and aging material are held together in one continuous space.








