Honorable Mention Award
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The occupation of Architecture should not be limited to the manufacture of functionalist spaces that alienate from the reality of their natural and cultural environment, but it most respond to the environmental conditions and the cosmology in which the spaces are designed. This takes on special importance in spiritual settings, where the union (“Jug”) between mind, body and the universe are the main reason for its existence.
The Moses Samadhi House should be seen as the beacon that enhances the relationship between universal consciousness and individual consciousness.Where the territory and the natural landscape are articulated as the “body” and inhabiting the space develop as the “mind” in a holistic relationship. In this sense, inhabiting requires considering itself as the basis of experience, and of the process of unifying the mind and body, a condition that directly influences the considerations of the design of experience in the project. This relationship should not be seen exclusively as a metaphor that superficially influences the aesthetics of the design, but as an ontological and cosmological element that incorporates the structural, landscape, spatial, natural and experimental aspects as part of a whole that facilitates the process of transcendence and fulfilnness.
Team: Gabriel Molina, Sebastian García, Sebastian Moreno, Rafael Cruz.
