Descripción
Series dedicated to the works, projects and architectural essays produced by the docents of the PUCP. This third issue is deditated to the The Machupicchu Visitor Center, a project developed between 2014 and 2016 by the LLONAZAMORA architecture office. Its development involved constant reflection on various topics relevant to contemporary architecture in the country, such as the way in which an architectural project can be related to an archaeological site in a formal, material or spatial way, even more so with one as imposing as Machupicchu; or the way of understanding this Visitor Center not only as a tourist space, but as the focus of a community dedicated to the investigation and conservation of the Llaqta. In addition, the task of conceiving an adequate intervention in the landscape that is a contemporary intervention in which the nature of the place and its pre-existences are recognized was faced. "The development of the Visitor Center project was suspended due to disagreements between the Decentralized Directorate of Culture of Cusco (DDC) and the government of Machupicchu Pueblo. They could not reach an agreement on the integral management project of the park and the Llaqta, which included, among other things, the construction of the Visitor Center. As a result of this divergence and despite the fact that the architecture and engineering project was delivered at a complete feasibility level, the DDC Cusco stopped the last approval. This led to a long conciliation process, in which, at our request, LLONAZAMORA ceded the authorship to the DDC Cusco to do so under his responsibility. This publication shows the material that was delivered at the end of 2016 to the DDC and remains as a testimony of the project presented." (HKB Translation) --Page 9.
