This project is part of the reconstruction effort of the coastal area of Llico affected by the February 27, 2010, earthquake and tsunami in the South of Chile. Llico, with a population of 600 inhabitants, is a fishing village located 32 km from the City of Arauco, in the Bío Bío Region... Llico was a community founded by indigenous groups. It was registered in the 18 century with the name of “San Blas de Llico”...in the native Mapuche language Llico means “beginning,” “orifice”...

At the end of the summer of 2010 an 8.8 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami destroyed half of this small community. The new post-tsunami master plan removed the village to an elevation of 7 meters... there, a triangular plaza that used to be in the middle of the town is now its entrance...

...the plaza, due to its geographical location, was transformed into a default sign of the town’s new distance with the Pacific... in this narrow plaza 5 wood-towers gently break the body and modulate that new continental distance...
...the exterior of the 5 towers obliquely rotate the body in different directions ... the towers in their interior carry the body of the visitors to “miradors” located at 10, 8, and 7 meters high... residents and visitors through the towers regain briefly the Pacific as a corporeal experience ...

Llico is also a quiet summer coastal resort that is visited by a significant number of tourists from the region ... The 5 new Llico Towers are an event...a new geography for the future summers and winters of this Llico post-tsunami...