WIND
BONES
Type
Retreat cabin for two
Year
2016
Location
Brunswick Peninsula, Patagonia
Structure:
Exposed post-and-beam frame; restrained steel plates and bolts; stone plinth
Envelope: Mixed corrugated skins (galvanized + weathering steel), deep timber reveals, high-performance glazing
Interior:
White mineral plaster shell with all primary beams/columns visible; minimal built-ins

“…none is of such profound importance as the principle of dressing and incrustation.”
—Gottfried Semper
This cabin is conceived as a double body: a clear structural skeleton and a tough outer skin. The exterior works like a weathered cáscara—corrugated steel allowed to oxidize, registering time as color—while the interior holds a legible frame where columns and beams stay visible, not concealed. The project treats enclosure as dressing: a constructed surface that mediates climate, light, and intimacy without pretending to be eternal.









