[ PROJECT APPROACH ]

| PROJECT CONCEPTUALIZATION |

The main project blends three important components: Local components, proyect intentions and design elements. Each of them are connected in a way that one has implications in the other two and vice versa. Altogether they comform the identity of the project in order to always respond to these three elements.

| LOCAL COMPONENTS |

The project is focused basically in three local elements: tourism, climate and ecosystems. They derive in many other sub-elements that are related and in some cases are shared. They respond to the project intentions and the design elements.


| PROJECT INTENTIONS |

The main intention of the project is to be a model that in a future can be emulated in order to produce a bigger impact  in the traditional structures.

… AND EVENTUALLY CHANGE THE STRUCTURE OF A LARGER SYSTEM…

Be a change of system:  Implies a change in needs and a change in paradigms mostly in the tourism component. Tourism represents an important  factor to the economy of the place but, it can also turn into a negative impact.

Be adaptative and responsive: This refers mostly to the climate component. The project has to adapt to the local climate and  has to be adaptative to the different  changes of atmospheric phenomenons. It also has to be prepared to all types of hazard events, specially  hurricanes that are common in the área.

Be sustainable: The project has to be commited with the future and be fair with the different ecosystems that are in the área. Nature has a harmony that has to be respected and so does human communities of the place.  An important key to be sustainable is the diversity which we  learn from nature. The impact must be reduce to  the minimum and besides it has to contribute for its preservation.


| ECOSYSTEM APPROACH |

This is a simbolic graphic of the posture that can be taken regarding the emplacement of the project in relation to the ecosystem.

(a) The project its inside the ecosystem.

(b) This posture locates the project inside the ecosystem but no entirely.

(c) The project is aislated of the ecosystem. It doesn´t affect it and it is not affected by it.


Posture (b) is the one that the project wants to adopt.


| SITE CONCEPTUALIZATION |


The project begins with a wide aproach of the area of Key Largo. The coastal lines are very defined and, from there, an invisible geometry emerges. In the image below there is a series of circles defining that hidden geometry of the coastal line.

 
In this case, the attention is drove to the circle of Sexton Cove, the samallest of all, in which the projects site is located. This circle represents an inclusion of the whole area, a geometric connection of the place.

The main circle generates concentric lines which allows to make an equal distribution of the land. Then those lines transform in to tangents.

These tangents can be manipulated through tension lines. Only by changing the direction and the size of them, the whole terrain can be dominated.

The tension lines follow fundamental axis defined by the place and the project intentions. These axis go through both planes, the horizontal and the vertical.