The Journal
Training, nutrition, Colombia and the 1% philosophy — editorial notes from the Phoenix Initiative.
The OasisAccessibility is not a category of person, it is a state most of us pass through. The gradients, widths and surfaces that decide whether thirty hectares of hillside are navigable — or not.
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The OasisAt Phoenix Oasis, every day is designed to close in one place: a west-facing space built for a simple, non-religious ritual. Here is the thinking behind it.
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The OasisA tropical night is loud. Real silence is not the absence of sound but the absence of sound that wants something from you — and it has to be planned into the land, not asked for politely.
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The OasisNear the equator nothing goes dormant, which sounds like a gift and is really a discipline. How a tropical kitchen garden is planned in Huila — soil, perennials, heat-proof leaves and local fruit.
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The OasisColombia runs largely on water, the equator gives a solar year with no winter, and heat quietly steals output. The physics behind an energy plan for a remote estate in Huila.
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The OasisNear the equator, a training space does not need walls — it needs a roof, a breeze and a floor that drains. How an open-air pavilion is designed, and why the climate writes half the brief.
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The OasisGuadua grows ten centimetres a day, resists like steel for its weight, and has its own chapter in Colombia's building code. A short course in the plant that will carry the roofs.
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The OasisSprings, waterfalls, thermal water and rain: the three kinds of water on thirty hectares in Huila, the permits Colombian law requires, and how a rural estate treats what it uses.
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The OasisSix waterfalls, three freshwater springs and one thermal spring across 30 hectares in Huila, Colombia. Discover the land where Phoenix Oasis is being built.
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