In the Pichiquillaipe area, located 20 km south of the city of Puerto Montt in southern Chile, are the remains of two fishing pens.
The Fishing Corrals are an ancient fish capture system used for over two hundred years, consisting of structures made based on the stacking of stones from 1.5 to 2 in height, arranged in the shape of a parabola that was used to catch fish and seafood once the tide went out.
These lithic structures persist, but their density and height have been decreasing due to maritime erosion and human action, making their protection and care urgently.
To do this, we propose a structure at the scale of the rocks that make up the pens, with two elements that make up a unit, a Tower and a Dock, through the systematic repetition of a single construction detail in common pieces of 2×6-inch wood. , emulating, in the language of a structure close to engineering, the ingenuity of the builders of -Palafitos- in southern Chile.
The Pier is a semicircle of 155 meters in diameter, whose route has a width of 2.5 m and a length of 500 m, supported by a series of piles that surround the larger Fishing Corral, ensuring the passage of water whenever The tide rises, in a continuous route without alterations from the beach to culminate in the Tower.
The Tower, at the end of the route, is made up of a 9 x 9 m square seen from its lateral elevation, where a diagonal staircase braces the structure in its longitudinal direction and allows once at the top to see the scale of both corrals and the sea.
The entire proposal is modulated in 85 cm squares, because the tread and risers of the diagonal staircase are the same, with the sole purpose of building a square on a semi-circumference with a unitary structure.
