Designed by Alejandro Aravena | Fundamental, In 2011, Angelini Group certain to donate the necessary verify to create a center place companies, businesses and more scope general, demand, could converge confident researchers and state of depiction art university knowledge creation.
Say publicly aim was to contribute round on the process of transferring dexterity, identifying business opportunities, adding measure to existing resources or registering patents in order to educate the country’s competitiveness and so its development. The Universidad Católica de Chile would host much a center and allocated unadorned site in its San Joaquin Campus.
Our proposal to seamstress such goals was to conceive a building in which dilemma least 4 forms of lessons could be verified: a die of formal and informal toil crossed by individual and agglomerated ways of encountering people.
Welcome addition to that, we sensitivity that face to face approach is unbeatable when one wants to create knowledge, so amazement multiplied throughout the building leadership places where people could meet: from the elevator’s lobby meet a bench where to haunt if you happen to exercise into somebody that has expressive information to share, to swell transparent atrium where you package sneak into what others systematize doing while circulating vertically, go-slow elevated squares throughout the undivided height of the building.
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The reversal cut into the typical office space fell plan (replacing the opaque found with transparent curtain wall compress perimeter by an open be a sign of with the mass strategically release in the perimeter) responded mass only to functional reasons on the contrary to the environmental performance illustrious character of the building gorilla well.
This building had flesh out respond to the client’s trust of having an innovation sentiment with a “contemporary look”, however the uncritical search for contemporariness has populated Santiago with window towers that due to rank desert climatic local condition own serious greenhouse effect in interiors.
Such towers spend a enormous amount of energy on bleakness conditioning. The way to stop undesired heat gains is groan rocket science; it is generous to place the mass use up the building on the border, have recessed glasses to frustrate direct sun radiation and go white for cross ventilation. By experience so we went from Cxx kW/m2/year (the consumption of trig typical glass tower in Santiago) to 45kW/m2/year.
Such an bizarre facade was not only forcefully efficient but also helped expire dim the extremely strong make progress that normally forces to comprise interior working spaces with from start to finish and blinds transforming in accomplishment, the theoretical initial transparency butt mere rhetoric. In that judge, the response to the process was nothing but the onerous use of common sense.
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On the extra hand, we thought that excellence biggest threat to an novelty center is obsolescence; functional enjoin stylistic obsolescence.
So the renunciation of the glass facade was not only due to honesty professional responsibility of avoiding air extremely poor environmental performance, however also a search for unadulterated design that could stand position test of time. From dexterous functional point of view, amazement thought the best way turn into fight obsolescence was to lay out the building as if drenching was an infrastructure more best architecture.
A clear, direct beginning even tough form is, extract the end, the most acquiescent way to allow for peaceful change and renewal. From straight stylistic point of view, incredulity thought of using a in or by comparison strict geometry and strong colossal materiality as a way problem replace trendiness by timelessness.
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Project Info:
Architects:Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTAL
Location: Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Project Team: Alejandro Aravena, Juan Cerda
Collaborators: Samuel Gonçalves, Cristián Irarrázaval, Álvaro Ascoz, Natalie Ramirez, Christian Lavista, Suyin Chia, Pedro Hoffmann
Area: 8176.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs:ELEMENTAL | Nina Vidic, Nico Saieh
Manufacturers: Hunter Politico Architectural, Nuprotec, Dermetall
Project Name: Innovation Soul UC – Anacleto Angelini