Article: Barclay & Crousse: community church, Santa Cruz de Asia, Peru.(Community)(Brief article)

Paris-based Barclay & Crousse found fame in these pages with their sybaritic beach houses on Peru's desert coast. Two clifftop dwellings were premiated in recent AR Awards cycles (AR December 2001 and December 2003), both essays in deft spatial organisation and thoughtful use of materials, intended to evoke the spirit of pre-Colombian and colonial houses anchored in the land.

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This latest project, however, is worlds away from the lotus-eating world of holiday homes for Lima's elite. Santa Cruz de Asia is an impoverished, sprawling shanty town in the desert 100km south of Lima. The community decided ...

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