↤ Colegio Antofagasta
British School, actualmente en construcción.
Antofagasta British School, currently under construction.
↙↧ Vista interior de la
casa Isabel la Católica. Casa Isabel la Católica, actualmente en construcción. Interior view of the Isabel la Católica house. The Isabel la Católica House.
Axonometrica casa Isabel la Católica Axonometric Isabel la Católica house
putting together a line that has to do with prefabricating and building. There is a self-management variable that interests us. We do not visualize ourselves as an office that intends to win contests forever; we want to invest our time in a vision for the future. We are interested in open- ing ourselves to a model where we can design small and medium-scale buildings that we can build ourselves. This approach will allow us to recover the lost ground that our profession has traditionally had in terms of the ability to construct the very projects we design," he says. His house, which he is building in Las Condes, is the first step towards this. Built using large-format wooden pieces and with an emphasis on reducing costs and time as much as possible, it has been an experience of experimentation and learning. "In this house, I have invested an astronomical number of hours to define modulations, measurements, and savings of all kinds... I am trying to reach a balance between design, costs, reducing deadlines, and having a different way of controlling the work. This project is very important because it is the first in a series of projects that we are already working on sequentially in different parts of Chile”. This house is composed of 20 pieces of laminated wood that move between walls, beams, and vertical pieces that serve as pillars and columns. In this way, element savings are reduced to three components that structure the work in an arranged stacking of large-format beams. This suc- cessive body of stacked pieces also defines the assembly «There is a self-management variable that interests us. We do not visualize ourselves as an office that intends to win contests forever; we want to invest our time in a vision for the future. We are interested in opening ourselves to a model where we can design small and medium-scale buildings that we can build ourselves.»
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Arquitecto invitado / Guest Architect
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