On a narrow and elongated plot, this complex includes apartments but also adds the necessary facilities to provide neighbors with the basic services that this spa from the 1950s lacked.
This residential building, located in Chacarilla del Estanque, a well-off neighborhood of the Peruvian capital, contains nine dwellings of different sizes and layout to promote social and family diversity.
In response to the complex regulations of the Barranco district in Lima, the apartments are recessed with regards to the facade wall to create a transition space between the public thoroughfare and the interiors.
Despite being based on one same module of 6x6x5.40 meters, each one of the five volumes holds a specific use and offers a unique atmosphere in which to experience the act of eating at a restaurant.
The main project strategy consisted in condensing the whole institutional program in a compact cylinder inspired by Cerro Baúl mountain, freeing up most of the plot to generate a large civic space for citizens.
The roof has two slanted surfaces clad with stone that generate a passive control system thanks to their form and thermal inertia, evoking at the same time the topography of Urubamba valley.
Developed as a typological variation of the Equis House, the six residences that make up the ensemble form a compact and coherent whole, even though they were not designedat the same time.
Located close to the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago, on Plaza Bulnes, this inflatable structure was the setting of the ceremony that kicked off the 23rd Chile Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, which took place from 14 to 22 January 2023 and ad
The jumping horses trained in an equestrian center located at the foot of the Andes Mountains are housed in a shed under a pitched roof ripped at the top to bring in natural light...
Raised on a platform that negotiates the slope of the terrain, the house is envisioned as a shelter amid nature in Conguillío National park, in Chile’s La Araucanía region. From the terrace one can contemplate the dead river of lava that is a reminde
Spreading like a membrane of concrete that evokes the form of a wave, the house seeks to engage in dialogue, through contrast and metaphor, with the powerful context of the location. The residence is part of an initiative taken in the wake of Chile’s
At Puente Blanco, a remote spot in the Argentinian Patagonia, close to the southern border with Chile, we find this stockbreeding estate that has been renovated and expanded by Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés architectes (RDR architectes), the firm
Since early times religion has been a rich and constant source of inspiration for art and architecture. Interpreting the sense and form of the sacred spaces is a hard task to take forward in today’s secular context. This chapel, conceived in 21st-cen
Located in the Miraflores district of the Peruvian capital, this building of brutalist aesthetics contains seventeen residences opening out to three distinct urban contexts.
The house sits at the confluence of two extreme landscapes, the desert and the Pacific Ocean, which together produce a humid but rainless climate and a constant temperature.
Inserted into a dry forest, this lecture hall built for the training of economically disadvanted people was awarded the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP).
The building is part of a private initiative that involved inviting eight Japanese architects (among them Sejima, Nishizawa, Juma, Fujimoto, and Ishigami) and the same number of Chilean ones to design a vacation house in Los Vilos, a rugged natural e
The new museum seeks to address the fragile balance between preserving heritage, sharing it with the public, and integrating it with the landscape, cradle of the indigenous Paracas culture.
In a recently populated suburban area, this house for a couple of mathematicians and their two children has a square floor plan divided into asymmetrical quadrants that spiral up four floors. Four steps (70 cm in height) separate one quadrant from th
The decisions taken in the design were the reaction to an accident. It was created for an artist couple: he works with paper, engravings and digital publishing; she, with enamelled ceramic. They had previously been living together in a big old house
The number of steps on a hill path nearby, the height of an old cypress that evokes those of Walter Pater, or the elevation above sea level that defines the podium could be used to explain the format of this building’s silhouette. But the reasons tha
The dense program of this house for a family with four children is fitted between a regular interior duct and the surface of the largest legally possible exterior wall. The prospect of a future division of the site adds to the decision of concentrati
Inserted into a cliff in Lima and echoing the surroundings through its materials, the memorial seeks to foster reconcitiation among Peruvians in the wake of decades of violence.
On the downward slope of San Cristóbal Hill, north of Santiago, the Parque Bicentenario de la Infancia (Bicentennial Children’s Park) takes up a total area of four hectares, of which 1,800 square meters are playgrounds. One portion of the plot is slo
It has been announced by the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago that the winner of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) – awarded every two years to the finest works of architecture carried out in t
The Network of Latin American Architecture Biennials (Redbaal) has given its first Oscar Niemeyer Award (ON Prize) to El Lugar de la Memoria (The Place for Memory) in Lima (Perú), designed and executed by Barclay & Crousse. The award was instituted w
The Chilean Alejandro Aravena is the new winner of the Pritzker, an award which the Hyatt Foundation has given yearly since 1979. In the words of its president, Thomas J. Pritzker, the work of Aravena (director of this year’s Venice Architecture Bien
The jury of the Venice Biennale, led by Pablo Baratta, announced that the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena will be directing the next architecture exhibition, scheduled to be open from 28 May to 27 November 2016. The Biennale thus seems to have be
La casa que Mauricio Pezo y Sofía von Ellrichshausen han construido a las afueras de Concepción, en Chile, fue el encargo de una pareja de artistas (él trabaja sobre papel y ediciones digitales; ella, con cerámica esmaltada) que habían vivido juntos
El parque nacional de Norfolk Broads, al este de Inglaterra, constituye un paisaje antropizado caracterizado por sus canales de origen artificial, sus molinos y sus edificaciones vernáculas. La propuesta para la ampliación de una antigua vivienda de
