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A Chapel in the Pampas 

Located in the Pampas plains, in the east of the province of Cordoba, Argentina, Capilla San Bernardo by Nicolás Campodónico rises in a small grove, originally occupied by a rural house and its yards, both dismantled in order to reuse their materials, especially its one-hundred-year-old bricks. The site does not have electricity or any other utilities; nature imposes its own conditions.

In the limit between the trees and the open country, the chapel´s volume opens up towards the sun, capturing the natural light of the sunset in the interior. Outside, a vertical and a horizontal poles are placed separately and projected towards the interior. As a result, every day all year round, the shadow of these, slides along the curved interior, finishing its tour overlapping with each other.

La Monumental vandalizada /PFC 2012-13/ Marta Ariza Beixer