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On
the ground plan: reticle, format and lines / Josep Quetglas
From the ground plan up in architecture / Luis Izquierdo
Four observations on ground plans / Fernando Pérez Oyarzun
Building Footprints / Eduardo Sacriste
In an age dominated by a culture of images when architectural photography
and rendering have become the media of choice, we take a look back
at the ground plan. A genuine footprint of a building on its site,
the ground plan contains many of the key aspects of a project, at
once a means of representation, an architect’s design tool,
and a layout and instruction pattern for the builder. Though the ground
plan is invisible to the inhabitant, it determines with precision
the quality of the spaces we inhabit.
Without the photos, we see the plan view once again.
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Eduardo
Sacriste’s book Building Footprints, showing plan views from antiquity
to the 20th century all at the same scale, inspired us to publish a
set of ground plans at 1: 250 scale of Chilean architecture.
The plans are divided into two groups. The first group is a series of
houses –single-family homes, a social housing collective and a
loft– built between 1946 and 2002. The second group is a set of
building floor plans that extend beyond the limits of the page in almost
every case. It includes the former Hotel Carrera whose renovation to
house the Foreign Ministry still defies common sense. Substituted for
the proposal of equal cost that won the 2001 tender, it has contributed
to bringing the Chilean public tender process into disrepute.
Our thanks go to all our contributors who allowed us to use their drawings.
Especially to Fernando Perez Oyarzun and his students in the 2003 “Theory
and Practice of Domestic Space” seminar at the U.C.’s School
of Architecture for the survey material they supplied to us, which forms
the basis of a significant part of this publication.
Duhart
House, Emilio Duhart
Sanfuentes
House, Jaime
Sanfuentes
Swinburn
House, Jorge
Swinburn
Quinta
Michita, Fernando
Castillo Velasco
Pirque
House, Cristián Valdés
Los
Sauces housing collective, Francisco Vergara
Tagle
house, Izquierdo
Lehmann arquitectos
TZ
Loft, Rodrigo Tisi, Antonio Zaninovic
Apoquindo Building, Cruz & Browne arquitectos
Golf
2001 building, Borja Huidobro, A4 arquitectos
Foreign
Affaires Ministry, Teodoro Fernández y arquitectos asoc.
Carrera
Hotel, Josué Smith del Solar
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Santa
Caterina Market, Barcelona, España / EMBT arquitectos
A vision of reality both kaleidoscopic and hybrid is offered by this
project located in a central area of Barcelona. Rather than a unitary
construction, the building made with multiple elements defines spaces
for an apartment block, an archeological site and a market. Its main
façade is the fifth façade, a wavy roof surface designed
to be seen from above.
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Individual
space in hyper-density / Carolina Bernales, Liliana Silva
Much of Hong Kong’s urban configuration is the result of frictions
generated by a society devoted to neo-liberal economics bumping up against
the limits imposed by the former British colony’s miniscule territory.
The high population density forces residents to use the city’s
spaces as a natural extension of their domestic space, a transference
made possible by the superimposition of activities in the urban strata
and a complex and efficient public transit network.
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Ground
plan echoes / Germán Hidalgo
Le Corbusier’s reflections on the plan view as a structural element
that generates and regulates the architectural project have a curious
starting point in the axonometrics published by Choisy. The vision of
architecture as a severe and precise discipline, closer to engineering
than to art, brings together these representations that reveal to the
eye an abstract ordering of parts, systems and relations.
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Field
of vision polygon / Germán Hidalgo, Alex Moreno
A revision of panoramic views as a means of interpreting and representing
landscapes is one of the starting points for understanding this investigation
that crosses view, territory and cartography. The integration of old
techniques with new graphic procedures makes it possible to draw polygons
that measure the reach of the eye, thereby providing a new type of topographical
representation.
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Transformable
floor plan / Carolina Valenzuela
The ground plan may be understood as the genetic material of space,
and though it is not able to specify which acts will occur in it, it
is very precise in indicating which ones cannot.
In collective housing, the problem that cannot be solved by a standard
floor plan is obvious. New questions about typologies, construction
and building strategies are raised by the search for floor plans that
are capable of change, driven by the rise of unpredictable new family
arrangements and the waning of traditionally dominant social patterns.
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