↧ Las habitaciones
La idea era construir el Hotel Explora en el pueblo. Con el tiempo se me hizo evidente que un hotel de 20 piezas duplicaría el tamaño de San Pedro, y que la manera de mantener la tradición no era agrandar el pueblo, sino fundar un lugar nuevo en otro ayllu. Con esto en mente, nos interesamos por Larache, el ayllu relativamente más alto del oasis, con vistas en 360 grados que incluyen al Licancabur y a otros volcanes, y donde antiguamente vivían los gentiles (antiguos). Queríamos comprar unas 17 hectáreas -o sea, unas 17 parcelas- para fundar un lugar en el cual construir el hotel (el oasis tiene 1.700 hectáreas). El día que recorrí con su dueño una de las primeras chacras, le pedí una huincha de medir para hacerme un croquis. Me miró con pena y me dijo: “¿Para qué quiere un metro?, ¡si el metro es muy impreciso! Fíjese en la casa con sus puertas de madera de cactus, el parrón, el huerto, la chacra, los peros, los chañares del cerco, los muros, las melgas de alfalfa para criar ovejas, el agua de las acequias, los corrales…”. Los pueblos atacameños tienen un sentido de propiedad de la tierra distinto al nuestro, y eso nos inspiró a comprar 17 chacras y dejarlas separadas entre sí, tal cual estaban, para conservar su rica historia.
The idea was to build the Explora hotel in the town. Eventually, it became clear to me that a 20-room hotel would double the size of San Pedro, and that the way to maintain tradition was not to enlarge the town but to found a new place in another ayllu. With this in mind, we were interested in Larache, the relatively highest ayllu in the oasis, with 360-degree views that include Licancabur and other volcanoes, and where gentiles (ancient people) once lived. We wanted to buy about 17 hectares - that is, about 17 plots of land - to establish a site on which to build the hotel (the oasis is 1,700 hectares). The day I visited one of the first farms with its owner, I asked him for a tape measure to make a sketch. He looked at me with pity and said "why do you want a tape measure, the tape measure is very inaccurate! Look at the house with its cactus wood doors, the vines, the vegetable garden, the orchard, the pears, the chañares of the fence, the walls, the alfalfa fields to raise sheep, the water from the irrigation ditches, the corrals..." The Atacameño peoples, as well as other indigenous peoples, have a different sense of land ownership than we do, and that inspired us to buy 17 farms and keep them separated from each other, just as they were, to preserve their rich history that is reflected in their differences, dismissing the original temptation to form a single piece of land with them, as we would do in a city.
del hotel siguen una tipología propia de las construcciones de la zona. The hotel rooms follow a typical typology of the structures in the area.
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