Learning from Andean vernacular architecture: a proposal for a tourist center in San Pedro de Casta, Marcahuasi
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1986
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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The architectural intentions may best be described in the phrases: "symbolic meaning of the environment" - "the spirit of place" - and the need to assure the "historical continuity".
The main points of the program are the following:
1.- to create a service unit corresponding to the needs of the overall development of the micro-region as regards to tourism,
2.- to favor contact between the tourists and the local population,
3.- to express this aim by means of an open type of structure,
4.- to offer a wide range of activities corresponding to the needs and desires of the occupants,
5.- not to destroy the natural and existing environment.