The project is born out of a private commission to build a wooden shed on a family owned plot in the Curacaví town, located in a valley 45 minutes west of Santiago de Chile, half way between the capital and the coast town of Valparaíso.

The proposal consists in a structural system that understands the canopy as hut, as shelter for the family. It avoids formalizing the shed as a sum of vertical supports to the horizontal plane and rather seeks continuity between the roof and the support points.

Structural Engineer: Josep Nel.lo
Collaborators: Judit Coma + Ezequiel Pérez + Adina Verenciuc

Having to build the structure with the family itself or the community implied having to recur to simple execution solutions. The entire proposal is executed with 2” x 8” brushed Arauco pine strips arranged in the manner of a textile mill supported by compression by a 9 cm diameter steel tube that crosses and articulates the pieces. Lengths of 4,5 m are employed for support strips and 1/3 plus 2/3 of 4,5 m for roofing strips.

This geometry confers the project a dynamic quality, making it seem paused in movement.

The new shed re-interprets the branch canopy traditionally built in the central Chilean rural areas, replacing the existing structure via a construction that consolidates this central space within the 2 ha plot as family meeting point.

SHED IN CHILE
Josep Ferrando Architecture + Diego Baloian

279. SHED 
Cuaracví, Chile | 2016

SHED IN CHILE
Josep Ferrando Architecture + Diego Baloian

279. SHED
Cuaracví, Chile | 2016

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