Tillandsia Telescopes is a research-based project that was developed for the competition of the Chilean Pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 'Inteligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective'. It explores a vegetal specie, the epiphytic plant Tillandsia landbeckii and a technological device, the atronomical telescope, as intelligent entities from the context of the Atacama desert, offering a transdisciplinary methodology as a framework to think the relationships between architecture, design, environment and technology. These two entities, through their functioning mechanisms, collect information from the environment in which they are framed, and the project aims to share a vision of how architecture can be designed and build in collaboration with biology, botany and science. 

Atacama, Chile.

Unrealised, 2024.

Images © Micaela Costa and Maria Gracia San

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