MAGAZINE ARQ 65 In territory

Readings | Works and Project | Essays and Documents

   

 

READINGS

Territorializing architecture / José Rosas

Putting the value of architecture in the composition of a territory, be it a piece or fragment of a larger area or a representation of one detail, is one of the subjects that converge in the proposed reflection of the articles in this edition .
Lo Contador: house, borough, city / Fernando Pérez Oyarzun
The relevance of a work in the construction, evolution and use of an immediate territory of which it forms a part are unveiled here in the record of the occurrences in a grange over the centuries. The work process is reconstructed on the basis of different scales of focus: the house, the neighborhood and the city.
A construction tradition of the Near North / Rocío Blaitt

A good part of rural architecture contains material sourced from the territory where it is emplaced. El Tangue Hacienda is an example of this relationship: due to its isolation, its homes and barns for which the clay soil and the bulrush that grows in the wetlands nearby were used as efficient and low-cost construction materials.
Territories of fury / Rodrigo Ganter
La Legua has likely consolidated as a recognizable entity within the urban weave of Santiago because of the superposition of segregation, political conflicts and a disciplined culture. The structure of its community and its culture have been what have marked its boundaries with precision, rather than its spatial reality.
Public space / Elke Schlack

The actual prestige of the private sector, the politically correct but devalued public sector, and the absence of shades in the distinctions between both makes the definition of a code urgent that will ensure the continuity of public spaces in the city. Bernardo Secchi has said that public space is where "one is in public." Do the ordinances reflect this?.
 
WORKS AND PROJECT

Pite house, Papudo, Chile / Smiljan Radic

The temptation of being on the brink, of establishing a strong interior–exterior relationship, is exacerbated by the important presence of the ocean and an abrupt cliff. The project develops through the articulation of the different spaces and zoning on the slope. The shape brings the spaces ever closer to the edge, there where vertigo, extension and a vacuum appear.

El Morro house, Zapallar, Chile / Teodoro Fernández

A privileged piece of property on the coast, the author's trade and the complicity of the client exemplify a proper relationship between the work and the territory. One level set on the slope like skirting and another level projecting outwards cohabit on the hill, which represents the entire public program and the best views.
Transversal comment - Two houses in the coast / Miguel Eyquem

These two works on the coast are analyzed from the perspective of perception and the senses. The author reviews the work through a slow and reflexive narrative and debates two ways to occupy a plot of land on the edge of the sea.
Lofts Yungay, Valparaíso, Chile / Antonio Menéndez, Cristián Barrientos

Aware of the urban heritage and the topography of the city, this project is committed to the physical reality of its surroundings and is inserted in the new framework of government support to the renovation of heritage. It also takes into account the demands for alternative model homes.
Transversal comment - A work in Valparaiso / Miguel Eyquem

Looking at Valparaiso through reflection, emphasis is placed on the different ways in which one same work can be read. The relationship of the work to the urban weave and the heritage as well as the good style of the work are present in the narrative.
Saucache Campus, Arica, Chile / Jorge Marsino, Claudio Santander, Diego Achurra

The university campus is put into a different order according to a new master plan that presents a concordance, through a repertoire of new buildings, between the uses inherent to educational architecture and the expression of buildings that are emphatically reminiscent, in answer to climate, of Pre-Hispanic cultures that inhabited that zone.

Patriarch Square, Sao Paulo, Brazil / Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Since 1984 and till now, the School of Architecture and Design of the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso has been making its expeditions known as Travesías. Traveling embodies the importance of territory for the School, as the trip becomes a powerful experience of architecture, a way to understand space and an opportunity to design.

Lago Colico House, Cunco, Chile / Fabio Cruz, Tomás Browne

Architecture establishes a link simultaneously to the surrounding background and the immediate interior. In the words of Perez Oyarzun, in part mirror –an object of contemplation– and in part mantle –the interior and somewhat anonymous dimension as a place of shelter–. The length of this house constructs two interpretations between the profile of the mountains and a succession of interiors.

Ski Box, Los Andes, Chile / Nicolás del Río, Max Núñez

Built in a mountain spot at an altitude of 3000 meters, in a dissimilar location with totally opposite realities: winter and summer. The work is designed –on a minimum scale– as a new, flexible model of occupation of that territory that takes into account precedents and materials present in the constructions existing in the location.

Geometric terms, Coñaripe, Chile / Germán del Sol

The project develops through a strong meeting of the environment and a correct occupation of the territory, taking the work to the edge of the land. The intervention is limited and firm, bringing forth subjects such as the materials used in the work and the right type of changes to the landscape.

 
NEXUS
Faculty News
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Exposición en el Museo de Artes Visuales de Santiago
(24 octubre / 16 de noviembre 2006)