Arquitecto colaborador / Collaborating architect: Elías Maturana
of the traditional standards of residential architecture. It is located on an irregular plot of land and is resolved as a volume that is sunken towards the street and opens to the north. The envelope, which comprises the entire house, is stripped of material pretensions and is shown in its most primitive form: built entirely of raw wood and resting on a concrete floor. (1) Today, Iván Bravo is focused on managing and developing projects with different agents, which allows him to approach the project from its genesis and focus his energy on design- ing without depending on a commission. This is the case of The Gauchal and Aladdin houses, both projects selected for the last Architecture Biennial held in Buenos Aires. Located in a private park, the Aladdin house unites residential and utilitarian architecture in a 30-meter-long triangular volume built on one-meter-high piles. The pro- gram is divided into two halves, one housing the entrance and wine cellar and the caretaker's house of the property. Due to the construction´s geometry, all the interior rooms have an identical section and a central corridor that runs transversally through the center of the project. On the exterior, the work presents a neutral and monochromatic facade that references the traditional larch tile structures of the area. (2)
fue la casa Zupe, en Santiago Oriente, que construyó sobre cimientos preexistentes, respetando la condición arquitec- tónica previa del lugar. Se trata de un volumen tosco y de piel áspera de carácter abstracto y atemporal, que pareciera haber estado desde siempre en ese lugar. Su segundo encargo fue la casa Orque, en Colina, que es resultado de un exhaustivo ejercicio de purificación de los cánones tradicionales de la arquitectura residencial. Esta se ubica en un terreno irregular, y se resuelve como un volumen que se entierra hacia la calle y que se abre hacia el norte. La envolvente, que conforma toda la casa, está despojada de pretensiones materiales y se muestra en su forma más primitiva: construida enteramente de madera en bruto y descansando sobre un suelo de hormigón. (1) innovated construction techniques such as the mezzanine system that is a mixture of a slab with exposed molding as a finish. Behind this is an understanding of engineering that allows Bravo to be in control of the construction and technical aspects of his work, which he integrates into the creative process of each project to achieve the most coher- ent and efficient result possible. "For me, architecture and engineering are part of a symbiosis, they are two worlds that go hand in hand," he says. Since leaving the university, he spent much of his time in construction until, 2015, when he decided to devote himself entirely to architecture. The first commission he received was the Zupe house in East Santiago, which he built on pre-existing foundations, respecting the previous architectural characteristics of the site. It is a coarse, rough- skinned volume with an abstract and timeless character, which looks as if it has always been there. His second commission was the Orque house, in Colina, which is the result of an exhaustive purification exercise
Arquitecto asociado / Associated architect: Bruno Giliberto Arquitecto colaborador / Collaborating architect: Sebastián Pezoa
(1) Excerpt for the Zupe house memoir (2) Excerpt from the Aladdin house memoir
Hoy, Iván Bravo tiene puesto su foco en gestionar y le- vantar proyectos con distintos agentes, lo que le permite abordar el proyecto desde su génesis y enfocar sus energías en diseñar sin depender de un encargo. Este es el caso de las casas El Gauchal y Aladino, ambas obras seleccionadas para la última Bienal de Arquitectura realizada en Buenos Aires Ubicada en un parque privado, la casa Aladino une la arquitectura residencial y la utilitaria en un volumen trian- gular de 30 metros de largo, construido sobre pilotes de un metro de altura. El programa está dividido en dos mitades, una que alberga la recepción y la bodega, y la otra, la casa del cuidadorde este campo. Debidos a la geometría de la construcción, todas las estancias interiores poseen una sección idéntica y un pasillo central que recorre transver- salmente el proyecto por el centro. En el exterior la obra presenta una fachada neutra y monocromática que hace referencia a los cobertizos de tejas de alerce tradicionales de la zona. (2)
↥ Casa Orque, Colina, Santiago. Año 2015.
↦ Casa El Gauchal,
Navidad, Región de O’Higgins. Año 2020.
Orque House, Colina, Santiago. 2015
El Gauchal House, Navidad, O'Higgins Region. 2020.
(1) Extracto memoria casa Zupe (2) Extracto memoria casa Aladino
↥ Vista interior de la casa Zupe, Santiago Oriente. Año 2014. Interior view of the Zupe house, East Santiago. 2014.
↦ Bravo usó cimientos preexistentes en el terreno para construir la casa Zupe sobre ellos. Bravo used pre-existing foundations at the site to build the Zupe house on top of them.
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