"The land he showed us was up on the hill, and I was looking down, next to the sea. However, he replied: that is not for sale, it is for my family,” Eduardo Godoy says. “I insisted until he accepted. I went down and, on the way back, I said: 'These are the lots and not the others'. So, with my conviction, he finally agreed”. “Besides, he knew Ochoalcubo in Marbella and loved the project,” Philippe adds. The earthquake of February 27, 2010, and the earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011, defined the second phase of this architectural adventure. Philippe recalls that his father “made a spiritual connection” between the two seismic countries and decided that the international guests would only be Japanese architects. "The Chilean-Japanese link, so to speak, is a strong, solid relationship. It was great because Toyo Ito agreed to help us in a kind of curatorship to select eight architects. That's how the project started,” recalls Eduardo Godoy. Meanwhile, Mathias Klotz was finishing the first phase but collabo- rated on the selection of Chilean architects for this new version: Cristián Undurraga, Alejandro Aravena, Luis Izquierdo, Antonia Lehman, Felipe Assadi, Max Núñez, Guillermo Acuña. The WWR office of Felipe Wede- les, Jorge Manieu and Macarena Rabat. The HLPS office of Jonathan Holmes, Martín Labbé, Carolina Portugueis and Osvaldo Spichiger. The businessman recalls that they contacted them because they were professionals who were doing good architecture, the most disruptive at the time, and they all agreed to join. “That blew our minds, that they accepted immediately.” In Japan, Toyo Ito invited young architects who were practically his disciples: Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Kengo Kuma, Sou Fujimoto, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto & Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow Wow), Akihisa Hirata, and Maki Onishi & Yuki Hyakuda. All of those offices each sub- mitted a project with plans and mockups. “In total, it was a project of sixteen houses, on a plot of land facing the sea and where we financed the first two to kick-start and accelerate the process,” recalls Philippe Godoy. "To begin with, we chose Alejandro Aravena's and Ryue Nishizawa's projects, which we found impressive from the very first minute, and those were built. Aravena had his house ready, he had developed it very quickly,” says Philippe Godoy”. Over time there were changes. For example, Max Nuñez's project was completely transformed. “ In fact, we now like that version better than the original,” they point out. Another novelty was that four of the architects involved in these proj- ects have received a Pritzker Prize: Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima in 2010, Alejandro Aravena in 2016, and Toyo Ito in 2023. Subsequently, Eduardo and Philippe Godoy created the 50-hectare master plan directly behind the initial Ochoquebradas site and invited 17 offices to create blueprints. Participants included Alvano and Riquelme, Felipe Assadi, Marianne Balze, Beals and Lyon, Cristián Boza, DRAA, Josep Ferrando, Guillermo Hevia, Cristián Izquierdo, Ignacio Montaldo, MOVE, SCL, Juan Agustín Soza, 57Studio, Albert Tidy, Tomás Villalón and Matías Zegers. EPILOGUE “Today we are starting a phase in José Ignacio, Uruguay, with eight South American architects. In the future, we'll be happy with what we have,” summarizes Eduardo Godoy, who currently divides his time between an apartment in Santiago and the house designed by Smiljan Radic in Marbella. It was finished in 1998, he says it is fantastic, he loved it as soon as he saw it and decided to live there. !
FEATURE ARTICLE
Unveiling Nature
By: Sebastián Rozas & Alberto Texidó
Climate change is modifying the territory's living conditions, trans- forming variables that until recently we had assumed to be stable and that, not without resistance, are forcing us to adapt our environments. Recognizing its persistence, cities receive their impacts at the same time that they create reactions and actions to face and avoid those so- called socio-natural disasters that are due to the scientific knowledge achieved and the preventive planning processes initiated, no longer being exclusively caused by and from nature. In this context, urban areas show their successes and failures in terms of location, expansion, and construction, challenging Urbanism and Architecture towards a new way of doing things. Therefore, interdisciplinary architectural coordination remains avail- able to incorporate innovative criteria. These range from the value of recycling obsolete and abandoned sectors or buildings to safeguarding areas exposed to risk so that they do not affect property and lives, to reinforcing protected areas through subtle or regenerative actions, all incorporated into ecosystemic processes as supports for habitation. It is even a question, as Gonzalo Carrasco encourages, of “imagining multi-species projects, in collaboration with other modes of existence, that make Post-Sustainable Architecture possible; that is, that goes beyond a development based on environmental compensations and mitigations to imagine a possible future centered on repair and regeneration”. This implies that Architecture in search of sustainability faces per- manent multidisciplinary challenges, which we have sought to explore in a selection of initiatives and projects inspired by new theoretical and practical procedures. Within these, renewable energies, water resources, preventive design, and nature-based solutions become relevant and necessary, widening the field of action and demonstrating that adaptation has already begun, becoming possible and desirable. Hubert Klumpner and Pablo Levine, from the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at ETHZ, Zurich, share their experiences in different continents in this issue of AOA magazine. “I am convinced that the ways of doing things that we learned in the projects in Latin American neigh- borhoods are novel and we should establish them methodologically so that they can be used as a didactic to teach and research”, says Klumpner.
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