Magdalena Salinas transforms waste salt into stunning 3D-printed houses. A clever solution for a warming world in need of new materials.🧂
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I am very grateful for this experience.
Last evening sharing and discussing with amazing peers and professionals about the Porous Borders of the Discipline as part of @archiprixnl and @bkpublicprograms
Thank you very much for this insightful night.
I am also very happy to have to possibility to bring part of Argentina to this stage and to know about the support from those back home following online across the sea 🩵
The exhibition will be in TU Delt until the 16 to then move to Eindoven academy of design. Please feel free to come by to see more than 20 selected projects.
Thank you @studioilinx@ma_interiorarchitecture_inside and @royalacademyofart.thehague for this journey that after more than one year is still rolling after your gentle push :)
In her final update, Magdalena shares the exciting and meaningful collaboration she has begun with artisans from the Argentine Puna, and how this collaboration will grow into part of her presentation at the Archiprix 2026.
"I’m finalizing preparations for @archiprixnl and feel incredibly grateful to present a new piece created with an original textile from the Argentine Puna, in collaboration with the artisans of @illaripuna ."
Illari Puna, founded by anthropologist Magdalena Sanches de Bustamante, is a collective that preserves and promotes the cultural heritage of Punean weaving. Working with natural fibers from high altitude communities, their textiles are entirely handmade, sustaining ancestral techniques without industrial intervention.
My work intentionally intertwines the hardness of the lithium industry with the warmth of local textile craft, creating friction and visibility to question how to address industry today, in the era of renewable energy. It has been an honor to learn and collaborate with people from both sides (industry and craft) to arrive at this project."
I am very grateful to share this year’s work with you, and excited to continue meeting wonderful people to share and collaborate along the way."
Keen to learn more about Magdalena's work?
On the 10th of March Magdalena will be giving a small talk as part of BK Talks: Archiprix 2026 — Open Vision at TU Delft. She hopes you can make it!
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We are continuing to trace Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) alum, Magdalena Salinas' journey towards installing her graduation work With Salt It Hurts, With Salt it Heals for the Archiprix 2026 exhibition. Here, she shares the research context which fed her project.
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Today I am revisiting my thesis book, reading, refining, editing.
It is a thesis that investigates the complexities of the lithium industry, yet for me, the importance of this book lies elsewhere: it unfolds as a bitacora. It traces my journey to the Puna: to the adobe mining town of San Antonio de los Cobres, to the turquoise evaporation ponds of the Salar del Rincón, to the infinite white flat of Salinas Grandes.
With this book I aim to not only compile facts from experts and bibliographies, I seek to convey the spatial experience in which those facts exist: what it feels like to stand before hectares of brine, to breathe salt at high altitude, to sense thirst in the desert, to witness time etched into adobe façades, to be encountered by animals while making your way through the landscape.
I want the reader to understand that it is not a research about dry numbers, but about a land, an ecosystem, and a culture. A territory of living systems that breathe, transform, adapt and endure.
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We are pleased to announce that INSIDE alum Magdalena Salinas is nominated for the Archiprix award 2026 for her graduation project With Salt it Hurts, With Salt it Heals. We will be following her preparations towards installing her work for the Archiprix 2026 exhibition, which opens in March.
The Archiprix award platforms the best graduation projects from Dutch master’s programs in architecture, urban design, interior and/or landscape architecture.
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Did you know that for every 1 ton of lithium extracted in Argentina, 115 tons of salt are accumulated in the landscape?
My name is Magdalena, I am from Argentina and recently finished my master’s studies at INSIDE, and got the amazing opportunity to be part of this year’s edition of Archiprix
My work, With Salt It Hurts, With Salt it Heals aims to question how do we want to relate to extractivistic industries in the era of energy transition. I use salt, the most abundant byproduct of lithium extraction, as material and metaphor. The thesis proposes a landscape design that intertwines industry, local artisans and ecology to make visible the hidden wound of the lithium industry while it hurts.
To everyone who accompanied me this year, thank you. It was a year of learning, listening, meeting, choosing and growing.
Thank you @royalacademyofart.thehague@ma_interiorarchitecture_inside for this initial push I’ll keep pushing forward with the momentum you gave me.
Wishing you all the best for 2026; may it find us full of projects and explorations, may curiosity never end.
Lots of love
Magdalena
El oasis de la puna
Excerpts from With Salt it Hurts
Immersed in the dryness of the desert, the bofedales (andinean desert marshes) are wet interruptions of vital oases in this harsh environment. Around them, wildlife such as vicuñas (Vicugna), guanacos (Lama guanicoe), and Andean foxes (Lycalopex culpaeus) thrive, alongside birds like the Andean flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus) and the puna flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi). Bofedales form patches of ecosystem in the Andes, persisting despite harsh conditions and significant variability in water availability. Rooted in the moisture preserved by the long-lived compact azorela (yareta), they emerge as terminals of a kilometer-long water system that lies beneath the rocky desert soil.
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Inmersos en la aridez del desierto, los bofedales (pantanos andinos) son oasis vitales en este entorno hostil. A su alrededor, prosperan especies como vicuñas (Vicugna), guanacos (Lama guanicoe) y zorros andinos (Lycalopex culpaeus), junto con aves como el flamenco andino (Phoenicoparrus andinus) y el flamenco de la puna (Phoenicoparrus jamesi). Los bofedales forman fragmentos de ecosistema en los Andes, que persisten a pesar de las duras condiciones y la significativa variabilidad en la disponibilidad de agua.
Arraigados a la humedad conservada por la longeva azórela compacta (yareta) afloran como terminales de un kilométrico sistema hídrico que subyace debajo del rocoso suelo del desierto.
More than happy to be sharing my work at @haagsekunstkring_hkk during @on_your_own_9 this year. Thank you Paul and Hans for this amazing opportunity to share my work, research and thoughts with others.
“With Salt it Heals” ,OYO 9 at the Circle of Artists, The Hague.
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A small glimpse into my journey at By the Sea a beautiful pop up exhibition that invited artists to share their work within the matter of sea, water, salt extraction and collaboration. It was a connecting experience with people that share same topics, concerns and sensibilities during the warm last days of Amsterdamse summer by the Amstel.
…“Is there a way of collaborating with the sea in our efforts to overcome water scarcity without repeating the dominant logics of domination and exploitation of habitats? “
Curated by @rowanstol
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