to move up and down
El Cupolog
Pan-american Transmissions : The Road to Tierra Del Fuego
Flower Print Curtains
Villa O’Higgins, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2013
Quadruplex Yellow
Villa O’Higgins, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2013
Quadruplex Blue
Villa O’Higgins, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2013
Some Day / Un día
Carretera Austral, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2013
Living Arrangements / Arreglos de Vivienda
Puerto Rio Tranquilo, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2013
Bar Restaurant Manhatan
Coyhaique, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2013
Las Casas de Castro
Castro, Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
Palafitos
Traditionally, fishermen on the island of Chiloé lived in houses built on stilts called ‘Palafitos’ to avoid changing tide currents along shorelines. Palafitos also gave residents the ability to move when they felt like relocating.
These events were called ‘Mingas de Tiradura’ and were usually a community effort where neighbors joined their oxes to pull a house to its new plot of land, sometimes floating the entire structure over water to do so.
Tiraduras still exist, but occur less often as the number of palafitos have declined over the years and island communities have become modernized. Regardless, the structures remain as one of Chiloé’s defining characteristics and are preserved as some of the last examples of the region’s independent fishing roots.
Castro, Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
Palafitos II
Castro, Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
Palafitos III
Castro, Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
Palafitos IV
Castro, Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
Debajo de los palafitos / Beneath the palafitos
Castro, Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
En la nave espacial, esperando el fin / In the spaceship, waiting for the end
Ralún, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
Nave Espacial en Construcción / Spaceship Under Construction
Ralún, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
Casa por la Costa
Isla Tenglo, Chile - © Diego Cupolo 2012
