cover an open field in the city to experiment their ideas of landscape and space. In that period, the city was once again thought of from an architectural point of view, carrying out a project promoted by the Junta de Adelanto, with works that related and built a new modern and homo- geneous urban landscape. The new public and semi-public spaces, and the efficient road layouts for the levels of traffic that the region achieved through industrialization and the artificial port, were projected at a critical moment for Chilean architecture, putting Arica at the national forefront with a large number of notable modern architectural projects that constitute its identity as a heritage city to this day. This research has allowed us to prepare files that have declared the Arica Bus Terminal and the Arica Olympic Swimming Pool as Historical Monuments, as well as the presentation of the Men's Primary School No. 1 and Girls' Primary School No. 2, by architect José Aracena as part of its results. ! Esteban José Balcarce Villanueva An architect from Universidad Arturo Prat in Iquique. He completed his undergraduate thesis at Universidad Católica in 2008, where his supervising professor was Dr. Fernando Pérez Oyarzún. He has a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture and is a graduate of the Doctorate in Architecture and Urban Dynamics at Universidad Privada de Tacna. He is pursuing a PhD. in Urban Planning and Metropolitan Region at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia. He is a public official in the Ministry of Education and a teacher.
transdisciplinary Sub-Antarctic research, and two apartments for visiting researchers/scientists. The pavilions are connected by a continuous, transparent public hall that takes advantage of the site´s natural topography by providing access to outdoor classroom environments and spectacular views of the Beagle Channel, the Darwin Range, and Tierra del Fuego. The potential of green roofs provide liveable classrooms, expand wildlife habitat possibilities, provide stormwater management for the site, and aid in the collection and storage of rainwater for reuse. Passive design strategies, such as regulating solar exposure and thermal mass, create a comfortable indoor environment. !
02_ The Los Colonos Building Providencia
This project is part of a series of small-format residential projects that the Alvano and Riquelme Office have developed by rescuing the attributes of low-density collective housing while recovering a scale adjusted for medium-rise neighborhoods. It is a building that reflects the attributes of the Pedro de Valdivia Norte densification projects developed starting in the 1950s, inserted in a model neighborhood characterized by an exemplary mix of single-family houses and three-story buildings, all surrounded by green areas. Los Colonos is a small building, resolved in three levels plus a sub- terranean level, which contains 19 apartments ranging from 80m2 to 140m2, as well as 32 parking spaces. The built volume seeks to integrate itself into its immediate context through austerity in its geometries, developing rather compact volumes and achieving some abstraction with its latticework facing the street. With this idea, the interior use of the building, the number of floors and units, is not read so quickly. A certain hermeticism helps the idea of continuity, to disappear. This hermetic facade is interrupted by a space between volumes; a void that reveals the access showing the vertical circulations, elevator, and staircase, as well as the total height of the bodies. In its interior facades, the building seeks to build a distance from the rest of the block by creating large planter boxes and opaque parapets, with the intention of not looking at the neighboring gardens but raising the view to the hill, the river, or a more distant neighborhood landscape. When entering, the building organizes its housing units through ventilated common areas, circulations accompanied by light-filled interior courtyards, and large skylights on the third floor. Spaces that seek to enrich daily use. The materials chosen for the work are in synchrony with the other intentions: the timelessness of concrete, wood, and steel. As a singular detail, the wood floors from the previously existing houses were rescued and replaced in the common areas. !
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This interdisciplinary research center is located on Navarino Island, off the Beagle Channel in the Sub-Antarctic Province of Chile, and within the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve. The interdisciplinary research programs bring together scientists, intellectuals, artists, indigenous peoples, and the local community to exchange knowledge related to biological and cultural conservation. The architectural program is structured in three pavilions integrated with the local context and landscape, organized along a primary axis ori- ented for optimal solar exposure and protection from the area's inclement climate. “We intend to lightly touch this incredibly beautiful and delicate landscape, to minimize the Center's environmental footprint, in terms of on-site natural systems, critical common resources such as electricity and drinking water, and life-cycle maintenance,” notes architect Richard Olcott. The pavilion on the south side houses educational spaces for sus- tainable tourism and biocultural conservation, including classrooms, a library, and study spaces. The middle pavilion contains administrative offices, a multi-purpose conference room, and a cafeteria, and the north pavilion contains an exhibition space, rooms, a laboratory for 01_ Cape Horn Sub-Antarctic Center Puerto Williams
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