CASO 1 | CASE 1 Explora Atacama
«Respetar a una cultura es seguir cuidando lo que esta, en su historia, ha cuidado».
«To respect a culture is to continue caring for what it has cared for throughout its history.»
↥ Vista del hotel Explora Atacama y de los 17 sitios que conforman el predio. View of the Explora Atacama hotel and the 17 sites that make up the property.
Cuando llegué al oasis de San Pedro de Atacama buscando un lugar para el Hotel Explora, recorrí el altiplano intentando conocer un poco el modo de vida de los pueblos atacameños y su paisaje, es decir, su manera de habitar el territorio. Se sabe por las cartas de los primeros españoles que llegaron hasta allá, que los atacameños vivían en casas de barro de dos o tres pisos cubiertas de madera y paja, en chacras formando ayllus o barrios dispersos por el oasis. El pueblo colonial de San Pedro responde, en cambio, a la tradición española de casas de fachada continua y calles.
When I arrived at the oasis of San Pedro de Atacama looking for a place for the Explora Hotel, I toured the highlands trying to learn a little about the Atacameño people's way of life and their landscape, that is, the way they inhabited the territory. It is known from the letters of the first Spaniards who arrived there, that the Atacameños lived in mud houses with two or three floors covered with wood and straw, in farms forming ayllus or neighborhoods scattered throughout the oasis. The colonial town of San Pedro, on the other hand, reflects the Spanish tradition of houses with continuous facades and streets.
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