Cardedeu is a skewed concrete chapel in the Coatepeque Lake in the mountains of El Salvador.

The chapel is intended as a landscape scene and is handled like an austere space with a single material, to highlight the lake and mountains.

It is like a box of extruded concrete where two covers are removed.

The use of local materials – wood from a nearby farm and stones from the local quarry – tied the project to the materiality of the area. At the same time, the introduction of foreign materials such as concrete and steel allowed us to create structures that project over the ground and generate sensations of floating between trees or even flying over the lake. Circulation between the volumes composing the project is specifically fragmented with the purpose of limiting or enhancing user views along the route, we generated a series of different relationships between the built and the natural, dissolving in some cases the limit of the interior and exterior.