InnC House · Brazil
Places one returns to.
A cove, a reef, a peninsula, a line of hills. The rest came later.
01InnC House
Before there was an InnC House there, each place stood whole.
Sheltered sea in Santa Catarina. A line of reef in Alagoas. A peninsula between ocean and bay, in Bahia. Red sandstone where the hills come down to the Pantanal.
Each InnC House takes the name of its place and keeps its voice down. The rest is known by being there.
02The places
From sheltered sea to the edge of the Pantanal.
Balneário Piçarras
A cove of sheltered sea on the northern coast of Santa Catarina.
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São Miguel dos Milagres
Coconut groves, reef and shallow sea on the northern coast of Alagoas.
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Maraú
A peninsula between the open sea and Camamu Bay.
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Piraputanga
River, ridge and railway at the foot of the Serra de Maracaju.
See03The measure
Place. Season. Discretion.
Place
It comes first. Whatever is built arrives later, and adjusts.
Season
Each place has its hour. Those who know it return then.
Discretion
Needs no explaining.
04Before
First, the landscape.
None of these places was invented. The cove already sheltered boats, the reef already held back the sea, the hills were already standing.
Arriving later imposes one duty only: to stay out of the way.
Philosophy05All around
The way there is also the place.
Fishing villages, rivers, islands, dirt roads.
There are those who wait all year for one week in May.
06Where one comes from
One belongs from afar.
There is no need to live nearby. InnC House begins in the city of those who belong, long before the road.
The place is where one returns. The rest of the year, one carries it along.
07Application
Entry is by application.
One reply, from one person.
Joining08Notes
What the places are made of.
Returning
To go is to get to know a place. To return is something else.
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The crossing
The Maraú Peninsula is reached by water. The journey begins on the quay.
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What the cove has kept
Before the summer visitors there was a chapel, a whaling station and the first farmed mussels in the state.
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