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From the architect. This project is located in the north of the big island of Chiloé, in an area called Huei hue, where the sea penetrates the land as a stretchmark, weaving a close relationship between land and sea.
The terrain is located in a sort of a peninsula from where it strategically dominates the relations with its surroundings: on the one hand, the inland entries of the sea that come from this arm, and on the other hand the immeasurable Gulf of Ancud, having as its backdrop the detachment of the Andes and its volcanoes, generously receiving the light from the east, north and west, and thus exposing itself incidentally to the strong winds and rain coming from the northwest.
These natural conditions combined with a specific assignment for a joined but dispersed single family housing, suggest that the project has the capacity to consider its different uses constantly. An elderly couple with grown children, grandchildren, and friends, where all need their space and where the house is not always used simultaneously. The house must adapt as much as to two people and fifteen people alike, always practical and comfortable in its different functions.
Thus, the proposal arises with a strong image of the Chilotes rural settlements, of clustering, of summation of volumes, where they are deployed in different orientations, taking advantage of the views, topography and sheltering each other from wind and rain.
In this way, a greater volume arises, the main house, which organizes roofs, terraces and two attached volumes, joined by a large terrace. These volumes emplaced each guest’s and children’s bedrooms with their own bathrooms by way of another independent houses, which is enabled only when used. That way the house is inhabited by openings and enclosures, like floodgates, which open depending on the number of members, accommodating itself to the needs and requirements in their specific times.
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What better way to kick off Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of summer than with this amazing sunset photo from Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan. Here you can find pristine waters, perfect waves, miles of sandy beaches and incredible views! Photo by Lorie D’Elia (http://ift.tt/18oFfjl).
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Last night, I went out in search of the perfect sunset. The weather of late has been insipid, lacking inspiration and every evening for the last two weeks the sky has been either pure white or a cloudless blue. But I decided to go out last night, whatever the weather.
By the time I got to Portland, the clouds were already beginning to show their teeth. I set up my tripod on the edge of the rocks, waiting to see if any colour bled its way from the sun into the clouds. I began to take a few images, they lacked colour and tone.
It was then, way to my left and out of shot, that I noticed a tornado-like cloud formation begin to form and arch its way across the sky. I waited for a moment and it joined the moody clouds behind the lighthouse. I checked how wide the composition would be – absolutely no chance of shooting all of it at 16mm. I was going to have to go panorama. So I levelled my tripod as fast as I could, wrenching the camera into vertical mode and swinging around to the left. I manually focussed on the rocks in front of me and took my first exposure. I needed to keep the exposure time down as the cloud formation was already becoming diluted and I really didn’t want to miss this shot. I managed to get away with just under 1 second each.
I took an image, panned to the right a tad, took another. I ended up with 8 images. By the time I took the last one of the spiralling clouds to the right of the lighthouse, the tornado-like formation was gone. During the penultimate exposure, the lighthouse came on and I hoped that I had picked up some of the light from it. I had been in the right place at the right time and just about managed to get the shot. It reminds me somewhat of a Milky-Way of clouds, the way the formation arches up from the horizon and across the sky. I have never seen clouds like it, but I was so glad that I was there to capture it.
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Sig Nordal 