Machu Picchu Experience

Abstract

The citadel of Machu Picchu, fundamental archaeological site of South America, was the product of an extraordinary sensitivity and knowledge about the territory and its resources for its implantation in an exceptional landscape. A proposal to conceive a new entrance to the archaeological site at the foot of the mountain was presented in the public contest launched by the Ministry of Culture of Peru. It focuses on the dimension of geography, climate and culture, rather than on the architectural dimension of the answer.The project proposes the integration of the landscape to the museological space, as a unit that can not be dissociated in order to understand Machu Picchu. The project site, where there are Inca vestiges of abandoned infrastructures, offers a lesson on human intervention in the natural landscape, which is revealed in the proposal through a journey along light footbridges, diluting the required program in small buildings, attentive to local climate and natural runoff of water in the territory.