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What do you think about wood as a building material? What are its biggest strengths and weaknesses? Wood does not intimidate human bodies. That is the strength. Although technology has greatly advanced now, fire-proofing is perhaps the thing we need to think about. It is evident the use of a single material for the vast majority of your works and the defense that the material should not be only on the skin, what is the role of wood in your transparent architecture? Wood can realize human-scale architectu-re and can also be transparent by making slim pillars and light screen. You defend material handling in order to show the essence of it, how to sense such manipulation in a material like wood? I learned a lot from local carpenters and craftspeople through projects with them. Do you think that the wood can be a potential material for the future? Yes, definitely. ARQUITECTURA & MADERA 9 Trabaja habitualmente con materiales autóctonos, ¿por qué? Porque construyen la mejor estructura para esa ubicación – en términos de dise-ño, economía y medio ambiente. ¿Qué opina sobre la madera como material constructivo? ¿Cuáles son sus mayores ventajas y desventajas? La madera no intimida a los cuerpos huma-nos. Esa es la fuerza. Aunque la tecnología ha avanzado mucho ahora, la protección contra incendios es quizás en lo que tenemos que pensar.


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