WE BRING NOTHING BUT LANDSCAPE What does it mean to design and build the Regional Museum in Rapa Nui today, in 2024? As non-insular architects, we ask ourselves whether it is possible to workwith the symbols and forms of Rapa Nui culture without distorting them. Would itnot be better to work with a profound respect for the island itself? We propose a design rooted in an active critical stance: intervening with lightness and temporality, employing ecological technologies that minimize environmentalimpact. Our approach is not merely about designing a building, but about creating a living landscape that interacts with its surroundings. Prefabricated, lightweight, and reversible buildings ensure the project leaves a minimal ecological footprint, integrating into the island without imposing a static presence—more like a considerate long-term visitor.

In Rapa Nui, where nature and culture seamlessly blend, our proposal seeks tointegrate into this environment without competing with it. Rather than designing a museum, we propose designing a landscape that actively engages with itscontext, repurposing remnants of the local volcanic landscape alongside global technologies from the mainland to preserve and create culture. The projectminimizes its physical and structural impact by being lightweight, precise, fully prefabricated, and reversible, with a minimal ecological footprint as its guiding principle.