CUZCO, PERU
Moray is one of the most frequently visited Inka sites located in the Andes of Peru.
Its historical origin and value have never been archeologically properly researched or proven. Recent governmental reconstruction of the curved terraces paid little attention to archaeology, only focusing on the form, resulting in extremely superficial understanding of Moray serving to a mass tourism model of visiting.
The project is a creative critique to the existing model, proposing an alternative path of visiting Moray through a set of Circles (Muyus) each site specific and filled with a story of a local community member. The visitor is engaged in deeper understanding of the site by the participatory action at each of the Circles.
The project proposes an alternative route around the archeological site of Moray. It identifies different qualities of place by stimulating all the senses.
Through intensive participatory action research, we extracted meaningful stories of local people that have been untold or, as it turned out, deliberately forgotten. With this stories a booklet was created that would be given to tourists visiting the project, where the various stories were translated into 3 languages: Spanish, English and Quechua.
It thus offers an alternative way of experiencing and understanding the archeological site of Moray that goes beyond traditional assumed facts and selfy–obsessed tourist culture.
PROJECT TEAM
JENNIFER DURAND, AKEMI CABREJOS, SAMANTHA SEGURA AND DEJA VRBNJAK
PRIZE
INTERNATIONAL 2019 PIRANESI STUDENT HONORABLE MENTION - LJUBLJANA, ESLOVENIA
SELECTED PROJECT 2022 FOR THE IBERO - AMERICAN BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM - MADRID, SPAIN
PUBLICATION
ONLINE PUBLISHED ARTICLE IN ARCHDAILY
PUBLISHED ARTICLE IN ARKINKA PERUVIAN MAGAZINE
