Sea Ranch and Wood Power: A vindication of the underdog culture

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Portada revista número 15 Materia Arquitectura USS
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Published: Aug 10, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i15.111

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Moore
Sea Ranch
Innovation
Wood
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No. 15 (2017): Materia Arquitectura 15 (Agosto/August 2017)
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Replaced by materials resulting from sophisticated post-war American research processes, wood becomes in the Sea Ranch the perfect raw material to investigate a new language. To the connection that its renewable origin establishes with the design approach, the commitment to the material is added as a response to contemporary needs that only the new systems seem to supply. Far from stereotyped attitudes or the unchallenged defense of its benefits, wood becomes a vehicle of formalization of the everyday, through successive transformations that multiply their meaning without obviating the contemporaneity of language.

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Blanca Juanes Juanes
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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Juanes Juanes, B. (2017). Sea Ranch and Wood Power: A vindication of the underdog culture. Materia Arquitectura, (15), 114–117. https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i15.111

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