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Architect:
Alejandro Aravena (http://www.puc.cl/arquitectura/elementalchile/)
Location:
Santiago, Chile
Founded:
1994
Design staff:
None. Hires people on a project-by-project basis. Currently has 10 people working in office.
Principal:
Collaborates with other architects on a project-by-project basis: Fernando Perez (Medical School); Luis Lucero (Medical, Mathematics, and Architecture schools); Lorena Andrade (Architecture School); Claudio Blanco (Montessori School); Jorge Christie and Victor Oddó (Pirehueico House); Charles Murray, Ricardo Torrejón, Alfonso Montero (Siamese Towers and Elemental); Andres Iacobelli (Elemental)
Education:
Universidad Católica de Chile, B.Arch., 1992
Work history:
Academic—Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1999– present; Universidad Católica de Chile, 1994–present
Key completed projects:
Medical School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2004; Montessori School, Santiago, 2001; Mathematics School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 1999; Sculptor’s House, Santiago, 1998
Key current projects:
Architecture School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2004; Elemental Quinta Monroy, Iquique, Chile, 2004; Pirehueico House, Pirehueico Lake, Chile, 2004; Siamese Towers, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2005
Check out this project:
MEDICINE SCHOOL. CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CHILE. From authors' statement, architects Alejandro Aravena Mori and Fernando Pérez.
To enchase in goldsmithery means to put something into some other thing firmly and delicately. Due to its' location, the building for the Medicine School of the Catholic University of Chile needed an architectural enchasing into the original building and to the surrounding public spaces. The care taken towards the different preexistance does not constitute, in this case, a contextualist option but a real determination of the problem.
The plot assigned for this building is situated in the heart of an old university campus, between cloister buildings and some new pavilions. The central and, at the same time, border position of the building forced it to respond to different situations. In all cases the building had to deal not only with different heights, materialities and architectural languages of various constructions, it also had to connect with each of the different circulation systems.
Basically, the architectural program for this school consists on different types of rooms: auditoriums, seminary classrooms, administrative offices and laboratories. The surface limitations forced the building to have seven floors. The five auditoriums one on top of the other, with their slopes alternated, form a sort of interior tower.
More pictures and plans , in spanish
http://www.chilearq.com/arq/proyectos.php?tipo=790&foto=0
http://www.summamas.com/72a.htm
Architect's site:
http://www.elementalchile.org/en/index.html
Archrecord extensive interview:
http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0412_4_aravena.asp
Alejandro Aravena (http://www.puc.cl/arquitectura/elementalchile/)
Location:
Santiago, Chile
Founded:
1994
Design staff:
None. Hires people on a project-by-project basis. Currently has 10 people working in office.
Principal:
Collaborates with other architects on a project-by-project basis: Fernando Perez (Medical School); Luis Lucero (Medical, Mathematics, and Architecture schools); Lorena Andrade (Architecture School); Claudio Blanco (Montessori School); Jorge Christie and Victor Oddó (Pirehueico House); Charles Murray, Ricardo Torrejón, Alfonso Montero (Siamese Towers and Elemental); Andres Iacobelli (Elemental)
Education:
Universidad Católica de Chile, B.Arch., 1992
Work history:
Academic—Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1999– present; Universidad Católica de Chile, 1994–present
Key completed projects:
Medical School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2004; Montessori School, Santiago, 2001; Mathematics School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 1999; Sculptor’s House, Santiago, 1998
Key current projects:
Architecture School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2004; Elemental Quinta Monroy, Iquique, Chile, 2004; Pirehueico House, Pirehueico Lake, Chile, 2004; Siamese Towers, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2005
Check out this project:
MEDICINE SCHOOL. CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF CHILE. From authors' statement, architects Alejandro Aravena Mori and Fernando Pérez.
To enchase in goldsmithery means to put something into some other thing firmly and delicately. Due to its' location, the building for the Medicine School of the Catholic University of Chile needed an architectural enchasing into the original building and to the surrounding public spaces. The care taken towards the different preexistance does not constitute, in this case, a contextualist option but a real determination of the problem.
The plot assigned for this building is situated in the heart of an old university campus, between cloister buildings and some new pavilions. The central and, at the same time, border position of the building forced it to respond to different situations. In all cases the building had to deal not only with different heights, materialities and architectural languages of various constructions, it also had to connect with each of the different circulation systems.
Basically, the architectural program for this school consists on different types of rooms: auditoriums, seminary classrooms, administrative offices and laboratories. The surface limitations forced the building to have seven floors. The five auditoriums one on top of the other, with their slopes alternated, form a sort of interior tower.
More pictures and plans , in spanish
http://www.chilearq.com/arq/proyectos.php?tipo=790&foto=0
http://www.summamas.com/72a.htm
Architect's site:
http://www.elementalchile.org/en/index.html
Archrecord extensive interview:
http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0412_4_aravena.asp