Interview with Alejandro Aravena part 2

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It's hard to tell. I would say that we try to get involved with relevant problems, with projects that have as many consequences as possible. So it might be a specific project and a problem but we try to dedicate time to that problem knowing that that could have many ripples around. So if we decide to take a very small unit but eventually build out in a material that has a potential to create wealth to the country. So we like to go from the specific question, somebody is asking wood, for example, and try to make it become, ok if it is the...,this is profitable for changing a country because Chile produces wood and we add value. How many scales can we go through while living with a specific issue. Building a city after the earthquake. How much can we affect urbanism. And then not only of Chile, of every single county that has very little money has to create cities that .... to a tsunami.

So dealing with the environment. How can we use architecture and urban design to make much better carbon foot print, that in the end it might mean a very efficient way to deal with the sustainability with so vague and so harmless in a way as a word. So I do not have a particular goal or challenge. We tend to get proposer's words that we see they have a potential to have many consequences around. It's hard to tell which projects had not that capacity. I mean if you work hard, every single project might be able to have a potential too, to have consequences around. But for sure..., there are projects.... I don't know, real estate relation, eventually, but they run out of energy, time just to spend to make it something relevant. It's quite big. And there are other projects where the clients already looking for the relevant outcome. So I would say that since time is our (scarce?)　resource, we try to privilege and focus in... , not too many projects but in projects that have the capacity to go through many issues. I mean studying architecture make me go to the city talk to the economy, go to country development eventually to religion and so on and so forth. So I would say that we are systematically in the attempt to do from architectural to non architectural issues back again to architecture because that is in the end the way we operate in the reality.

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