Project: Lost Forest. 2023
Competition: TAC Festival de Arquitectura Urbana.
Location: Donostia, Pais Vasco. ES.
Authors: Santiago del Águila & Julia Ruiz-Cabello Subiela
Competition: TAC Festival de Arquitectura Urbana.
Location: Donostia, Pais Vasco. ES.
Authors: Santiago del Águila & Julia Ruiz-Cabello Subiela
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In the actual context of climate emergency in which we live nowdays, Lost Forest pavilion brings closer the reality of forest fires and raises awareness about the importance of coexistence, care and sustainable management of our forest. The project made this statement in a very direct and frontal way, transferring a large volume of burned logged trees, coming from a nearby fire, to an urban context in the city of San Sebastián (Basque Country).
The construction process was equally relevant. For a week, people from San Sebastián witnessed a brutal performance in which 20 long forestry trucks of 13m long arrived transporting a large volume of trees that was unloaded with a forestry clamp and raised on a steel containment structure whose objective was only to frame this process. Ash, cortex and branches came off the wood, contaminating and dirtying the site so often transited daily. People could smell and touch the burned wood. The small forest fragment was also a refuge for other “walkers” of different species such as birds, butterflies and other insects.
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