2024 - Land Of The Sun (Ibi kûarasy)

Category
Daylight in Buildings - Region 3: The Americas

Students
Carlos David Vilcabana Manayay & Josue Eduardo Salinas Jaimes

Teacher
Fernando Pacheco do Nascimento

School
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais

Country
Brazil

Land Of The Sun (Ibi kûarasy) is to show and reflect our ancestral origins, on the importance of lighting since ancient times where cultures were just as important as today, where the sun was vital in their day-to-day, where they were seen in the approach of their buildings, crops, and even for their coexistence as a community. This knowledge was vital, making their lighting used to the fullest. This was given through a great admiration and understanding of the sun to know its path, from maximum points such as the solstices, equinoxes, and knowing the meaning of each of these. Currently, this ancestral knowledge has been lost or is not used, although it has a complete and very detailed understanding of the sun and its illumination.

The project is located between the limit of the city and the limit of the mountains, a place rich in various minerals, where people have a lack of knowledge of their roots. Therefore, it seeks to connect the ancestral knowledge of the builders of the past with the knowledge of the builders of today, and thus build a better future by merging these two knowledge bases, where the contemporary builder learns from his origins and the builder of the past learns from modernity and its technologies that it can offer. Here the sun becomes a unifier of this fusion, because through the illumination we can see the coexistence, and also appreciate the illumination in each space of the place. The time shows us the history of this place but also of many others, through the journey of the sun, in every hour and important dates. From the morning where the sun rises in the mountains, showing the origin, and in the afternoon where the sun sets in the city, showing the present, what we are now as a society.

The project is composed of three zones:

First Zone: We have the sidewalks where, by means of retaining walls, different spaces are generated, which allows the coexistence on the different levels. The bushes and vegetation become rest and protection zones. In this place, the illumination allows for more sociability, showing the coexistence and participation of the people who interact among them.

Second Zone: The tunnels are located here. In the upper part, there is vegetation and the terrain with stone pillars, and below this are the tunnels. The sun passes through these two levels and shows us how the two spaces interact, making us reflect that although below there are valuable minerals and above vegetation, both must coexist without damaging each other.

Last Zone: We show the top that is the circumference that has perforations on the axes of north, south, east, and west, where the lighting passes, becoming a participant of this place. The main opening is in the center where the sun descends, impacting each space and material, making each person feel the connection between nature and the environment.