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During four weeks, Aurora Arquitectos and Kirill Jedenov ran a studio for 24 University of Western Australia students, hosted by Trienal de Arquitectura.
The Studio was called “A Building is not an isolated act” and the aim was to explore with students the means of reading the site and the way this reading itself is already a transforming tool, and not just a part of the protocol of doing a project.

In the introduction to his History of Architecture, Spiro Kustoff distinguishes two fundamental and initial ways of designing spaces for ritual action: circumscription and emphasis.
In the first, through the creation of boundaries (walls, etc.), one holds and shapes the flow of the ground. It creates the inside and outside, the ours and the foreign. Property.
In the second, free structures, by their mass and height, concentrate attention on an indeterminate extent of space- the monument. Both are ways in which humans impose their order (geometry) on that of nature. They are ways in which humans name places, invent them. This marking depends and depends on a reading of the territory, recognizing in it its fundamental points and lines: the highest, the lowest, the middle, the most external, the most protected, the most vulnerable. And with it, strategic decisions about our position: dominate, see better, better defense, etc. One of the moments when this type of territory reading and strategic decision-making is most evident is upon arriving at the beach. Where do we position ourselves? There are many variables: sun, wind, relation with tides, rocks in the sea, watched zones, position of the bar, proximity, population density, time to walk on the sand, animals, cliff.