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Las Aradas Memorial: Engaging in Popular Building Techniques

The prototype developed for the Las Aradas Memorial represents and questions ways of assembling through popular building techniques. It looks into the question of tradition and context, and how studying or inviting the vernacular can create a strong sense of identity while creating feasible and ready-to-build constructions. The project that commemorates ca. 600 victims of the Salvadoran civil war (1980–1992) is currently under construction in the region of Chalatenango, northern El Salvador. The prototype can therefore be read as a post- and pre-construction site testing ground for the design team. The fragments of the commemoration project depict a cut-out of the general design (1/50), and four 1/10 models, representing the fireplace, the existing monument, the memorial bearing the names and a column of the roof structure.

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Contributors

H. Fallon
T. Montulet

KU Leuven & UCLouvain
Belgium

Presented at ICSA2022, Aalborg University. Critical Practices 2022 booklet (PDF)