Mirador Competition, Algarve, Portugal.

Interstice The proposal dives into the natural physical element to provide shelter with a sensitive and contemplative downward path from a haptic perception, where the sound of the sea and walking, the texture of the materials and the breeze, prepare you to admire the view of the greatness of the landscape. Its concept of refuge-fortress as a reminder of the old one of which there are still some remains, letting you glimpse part of the natural landscape and the collapse experiencing the bodily consciousness and the externalization of the mind along the way. The breaks in the descent function both as a gallery and traffic flow, showing on its walls the history of the fortress and the site. It becomes the interstice between land and sea, nature and human being, the tranquillity of the landscape and the vertiginous breaking of the waves; the past and the present, externalization and internalization.