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architect: Guillermo Hevia García, Nicolás Urzúa

location: Santiago, Chile

year: 2016

We do not know with certainty whether “Your Reflection“ is an experience, an illusion, a landscape, a place, an object, an attempt at surrealist construction, an artistic approach or a mix of several of these.

photo by Adrian Aleson
photo by Adrian Aleson

We have meant to build an uncertain experience, a situation of estrangement, one which we do not intend on controlling, as the possibilities of reflection and deformation provoked by the concave and convex mirrored steel bi-dimensional planes are infinite. We have multiplied the amount of reflecting and deformation situations in order to produce an interaction belonging to a world of illusions, more surreal than real. We want the visitor to be expectant of what is going to surprise them in the next place.

photo by Nicolás Saieh
photo by Nicolás Saieh

It is not just about looking at the project, but letting it surround you, envelop you, to become part of it, and that it becomes part of you, passively and actively, following our own capacities of observation and reflection.

architect: Guillermo Hevia García, Nicolás Urzúa
collaborators: Felipe Droppelmann, Cristian Fuhrhop, Cristóbal Montalbetti, Diego Rivera
location: Parque Araucano, Santiago, Chile
client: Parque Araucano, Santiago, Chile
project year: 2015
construction year: 2016
time of construction: 60 giorni
constructed surface: 600 mq
budget: 35.000 US$