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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

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“…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.

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