The Vista Golf II project is located on approximately 2.3 hectares of land next to the eastern edge of the Marbella Condominium. The construction site is strongly influenced by the part of the golf course to the west, a high voltage power line and the road to the east, an artificial lagoon to the north, and the condominium access to the south. Initially, three four-story buildings were planned, but due to a real estate decision, the third building was eliminated and replaced by seven single-family houses, leaving the project with a total of 48 apartments between 78m2 and 126m2, and seven 140m2 houses. The buildings were built with prefabricated reinforced concrete panels for walls, slabs, and parapets -provided and installed by BAUMAX-, as were the houses' first floors, while the second floors were designed and built with industrialized wood panels by the E2E company. All of the noble enclosures of the apartments and terraces overlook the golf course, while an exterior circulation was projected towards the access, in the form of a gallery, which operates as a filter and a buffer between the road and the dwellings. Although the processes with both BAUMAX and E2E meant a signifi- cant reduction in construction times, resulting in overhead cost savings, a lot of time and work was required before starting the work to properly coordinate the project. It should be noted that the buildings and houses were not originally designed with these systems, but were adapted to this technology after the fact. It is likely that if the project had been designed from the beginning with the knowledge of the construction systems that were used in the end, progress would have been faster and with fewer trials and errors; on the other hand, the process also showed us that with these systems it is possible to build practically any architecture. ! 06_ Vista Golf Ii Buildings & Houses Marbella, Puchuncaví
ly, where machinery and differentiated processing lines are installed, starting from the initial waste to obtaining the final product that will be taken to the reuse processes. !
08_ la Hondonada-Río Viejo Intercommunal Park Cerro Navia, Santiago
The La Hondonada-Río Viejo Intercommunal Park is a project of the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism's Parks Program that promotes im- proved living conditions in low-income sectors and is part of Santiago's Rainwater Master Plan and MINVU's Neighborhood Recovery Strategy. It was commissioned by a public tender to URBE Arquitectos Ltda. The team developed all the specialties, in terms of landscape and citizen par- ticipation, with the PaisajeVIVO office. The competition and design were completed between 2009 and 2010 and was built between 2014 and 2017. It is located on the border of Pudahuel and Cerro Navia, which is the most segregated and under-equipped community in the Metropolitan Region. It was previously a 27.4-hectare, 3.5-kilometer-long wasteland that once housed a branch of the Mapocho River and was used for aggregate and pomace extraction. Illegal landfills had transformed it into a large garbage dump and, being a flood basin due to rainwater overflows, it was a focus of contamination. At the same time, the area was dominated by crime. The urban and landscape proposal focused on establishing a meeting and connectivity area between neighborhoods that would improve the quality of life in an area of approximately 9 km2 and with a population of more than 200,000 inhabitants. The development of the park program was based on citizen participa- tion, including key community stakeholders in the management, design, and administration of the park. This process particularly incorporated women heads of household and representatives of the Mapuche culture. As a result, sports facilities and an area that includes a ruca, a rehue, and a palín court were defined. A sustainable design was established based on earthwork savings and ensuring the visual dominance of the local landscape and the mountain range, which establishes the spatial links of belonging to the city of Santiago. The design also enhances the spatiality of the basin by promoting communication between edges, the unitary recognition of the space, and the encounter of the neighborhood. Waterfronts were created on elevated edges with lookouts, and three large sectors. El Valle Central del Encuentro (The Encounter Central Valley), which calls for integration, improving the quality of life and environmental sanitation with esplanades for walks along the river, an amphitheater for concerts, and a skatepark, among other pro- grams. To the west, sports areas with courts and multi-fields. To the east, a recreational area that includes green “bays” and family garden projects. The vegetation proposal is based on the idea of achieving a unitary route system and emphasizing the central space that allows a set of sequential activities of different scales and volumes. The accesses are very important in order to enhance the value of the neighborhood and provide a symbolic condition of transition to the natural environment. !
07_ The Giri Plant Quilicura
Located in the municipality of Quilicura, the GIRI plant is the largest and most efficient waste sorting and pre-treatment facility in Chile, with a processing capacity of up to 60 thousand tons per year. This increases the capacities and standards to meet the goals of the Extended Producer Responsibility Law (REP Law), in addition to other services it will provide to the industrial sector. The building includes 8,500 m2 of industrial buildings and adjacent facilities for its collaborators and is part of the strategic plan of the envi- ronmental management company Ambipar Environment to strengthen its position in our country. It provides the necessary infrastructure to meet the sustainability challenges of various industries, with service models inspired by concepts of circular economy and carbon neutrality, which reduce the non-valuable fraction of waste to a minimum. GIRI will receive containers, packaging, and solid waste generated by industrial activity (production discards, contaminated materials, etc.) and REP management systems which, after sorting and pretreatment, will be converted into raw materials with high levels of purity and quality necessary to facilitate their subsequent use in the recycling chain and other forms of recovery. The plant will have the capacity to perform certified destruction and produce fuel derived from the non-recyclable fraction of the waste, thus minimizing the leftover volume that until now had to be sent to landfills. At the beginning of the decision chain, the high fuel load was reviewed, which required the use of concrete structures (fresh and precast) in walls, pil- lars, beams, and bracing elements to ensure their fire resistance. Pre-painted metal cladding was used to cover the highest parts of the buildings. The project is organized around the formation of a maneuvering yard that considers three halls united on the outside, but separated internal-
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