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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.

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