Text from the architects:

These series of structures are located on Isla Lebe, an intermareal island located on the eastern central coast of Chiloé, in the Rilán bay.

Spanning 600m in length and 80m in width, with a longitudinal orientation at 100º East the small 5-hectare island looks towards the fjords and channels that make up the archipelago of Las Desertores right between the Michimahuida and Corcovado volcanoes.

Its intertidal condition provokes a constant change in the landscape. Every six hours large masses of water flood then empty the beaches, connecting and disconnecting the island from the mainland (in this case in fact a much bigger island) as the marine ground appears and disappears almost without notice. The island floats in this landscape of continuous change in which all the elements of nature seem to be animated by a higher force.

Its in this context that a series of small constructions is inserted. The first, a boathouse, was built in 2013. Since then staircase and cellar was added. Later on the “red room”, a place to gather and eat. More recently two guesthouses, a terrace walkways and paths to the beach have been added.

This is a work in progress where the architecture evolves as the landscape also does. The architecture is simple and austere, big enough to provide shelter and small enough to push us back to the sea.