EDUARDO PEREZ INFANTE Portfolio for the application at the New Normal Strelka Institute Santiago de Chile - November 2016
Index
TOMA
2012 - Current TOMA
TOMA is an architecture collective based in Santiago
1. ESPECULOPOLIS
de Chile, formed in 2012 and currently composed
2.
of 5 architects.
THE OCCUPATION
3. COMEDOR 4.
NEVER DISCUSS POLITICS AT HOME
The office develops territorial actions and research
5.
...AND NAKED
to generate alternative social ecosystems, and
6.
INFANTE 1415 #II
7. HEADQUARTERS 8.
THE LABYRINTH
questioning
the
current
urban
development.
Understanding architecture as a tool to question the current destruction of territories and communities, TOMA works as a nomad organization that aims to understand and visualize the conflicts that occur in
CASA DE LA MUSICA 9.
the urban.
LCDLM I: MESANA AFTER THE FIRE In their projects, TOMA uses a broad array of tools
Founder, Partner: Conceptualization, sound and space design, building. VVAA ARCHITECTS 2012 –2014 Architecture studio, in collaboration with Mathias Klenner and Ignacio Saavedra. VVAA participated in commissioned projects, as well as open competitions and collaborations. The office designed and built projects of different scales and types, both for private and public clients. Founder, Partner, Architect: Conceptualization, design and supervision of architectural projects.
and involves multiple actors. Its production is self-
VVAA 8.
CASA DE LA MUSICA 2014-2015 Casa de la Música is a Do-Tank that experiments on social space through music as an active communicational tool. LCDLM reclaims and resignifies spaces by creating collective experiences through physical intervenwwtion and sonic programming.
VALDIVIA RIVERSIDE
managed, hands-on, and mostly constructed with scarce resources. The work of TOMA has been exhibited in Santiago, Athens, Istanbul, Chicago and Melbourne.
DÆ DESIGN STUDIO 2014 - Current Design studio, in collaboration with the designer Angelo Santa-Cruz. The work of DÆ integrates craft and design for the development of interior design projects. Founder, Partner: Design, building and management.
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#1 ESPECULOPOLIS
PROJECT FOR THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL 2015
OCT 2015 – DEC 2015 CHICAGO
The case study for ESPECULOPOLIS is Santiago de Chile, the neoliberal city par excellence, shaped by the thoughts of the ¨Chicago Boys¨, whose ideas became prominently influential during Pinochet’s dictatorship and still resonate deeply within Chilean society
today.
ESPECULOPOLIS
brought
and
exposed four ¨urban crimes¨, four specific territories from Santiago de Chile, through which this historical process is exposed to offer an opportunity for open discussion and reflection. While TOMA stayed in Chicago, three collective actions were developed: Cases Parliament: A discussion scene that relates the four case studies through historical facts and relevant actors, building up a territorial cosmogony over the last 50 years. Speculative Tribune: A collective newspaper. It contains reflections on the contemporary city, declassified documents, comments about the biennial, speculations about possible post-neoliberal
t
SEARCHING FOR THE
SPECULA POST-NEOL
cities, photo reportages, etc. The Evidence Board and Archive: gathers information detailing the history of neoliberalism in Santiago de Chile and in the world. The Evidence Board organizes this history and its manifestations in the urban environment. » Speculative Tribune #0 #1 #2 #3 #4 » Article on ArchDaily » Videos #1 #2 #3
The case study f de Chile, the neo shaped by the tho a group of Chil by Milton Friedm the University of prominently infl dictatorship and Chile
SEARCHING FORTHETRACES OF URBAN NEOLIBERALISM. SPECULATING ABOUT POSSIBLE POST-NEOLIBERAL URBAN SCENARIOS In contemporary society, we see the results of the neoliber segregation of the poor to the periphery of the city, deregul hands of private interests, privatization of all public ser renovations of old buildings and the displacement of communi
We believe that the unique history of Santiago has much to co of other cities that have developed similarly. ESPECULOPOLIS offers an opportunity for open discussion and reflection.
ESPECULÓPOLIS will be active for two weeks accompanied by the will invite visitors, citizens and participants to take part of this collective speculation. At the end of this period, ESPECULÓPOLIS will remain as an e to the state of the art of urban speculation in Santiago and t yielded during the two-week period of active engagement.
#2 THE OCCUPATION
AN OCCASSIONAL CITY
OCT 2013 - JAN 2014 SANTIAGO
La Ocupación (The Occupation) took place at the Cultural Center MilM2, in the facilities of an old hat factory. Situated in the very core of the gentrification processes in Santiago, La Ocupación occurred during the last week before it got demolished. Constructing the figure of an Occasional City, it was an exercise of temporary occupation which pretended to explore different ways of collaboration and new forms of collectiveness. Eight
temporary
different
institutions,
collectives
two
developed
by
warehouses,
an
exhibition room and a backyard. It functioned day and night from 5-11 of january 2014, with a continuous program. Each institution developed an infrastructural and programmatic proposal, and was asked to relate both with other institution as with the general collectivity. In this manner, The Occupation was a space of action and reflection, a temporary ecosystem to inquire about the possibilities of the social space. The Institutions were: The Press Room / The Nocturnal University / The World or Global Code / The Sanatorium / The Music House / The Bakery / The Identitorium / The Dining Room
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#3 COMEDOR
MEMORY
AUG - OCT 2016 SANTIAGO
COMEDOR (DINING ROOM) is a project of temporary occupation of the central plaza of GAM, the largest cultural center in Santiago de Chile. COMEDOR is proposed as a recovery action of the memory of the building - originally the UNCTAD III (United Nations Conference of Trade and Development 1972) then Gabriela Mistral Metropolitan Cultural Center 1972-73 and then Diego Portales (Pinochet dictatorship headquarters 1973-90)- specifically of the dining room which functioned in the original cultural center from august 1972 to September 1973. This cultural center represented the ideals and hopes of the first socialist government in Chile, and the dining room was the hearth of this space where artists, thinkers and workers who believed in this project met together. COMEDOR links the food and the culture as ritual practices associated to meeting, conversation and exchange. So the memory recovery appears as a link between a temporary community and a public space. Dining room opened its door for the first time in September 2014, and remained in operation for five weeks, offering food and many activities as music concerts and lectures.
Associated Collaborators: Denise Elphick (cultural manager), Patricio Garcés (chef), Sergio Benavente (manager) and GAM.
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Dinner Table x12, Large Bench x16, Short Bench x16.
The Kitchen
The Ticket Office
The mobile Table
The Kiosk
#4 NEVER DISCUSS POLITICS AT HOME
EXHIBITION
AUG - OCT 2016 MELBOURNE
NEVER DISCUSS POLITICS AT HOME is a project developed by TOMA for Occupied Exhibition, at RMIT Design Hub, in Melbourne. It explores the domestic space and its capacity as a political stimuli through a collection of architectural tv shows, movies, magazines, newspapers, pictures, websites and books. The project remained open for 2 months, with a member of Toma in residence. Every week, guests come together over lunch to discuss the urban issues of our time: real estate speculation, affordable housing, gentrification, demolition,
displacement,
community
resistance,
urban
memory,
manifestations
and
protests, occupations of buildings and territories, contamination of urban natural resources. * For practical reasons, in this project, I only took part the
process
of
conceptualization,
pre-production
of and
communication, while actions as production and events were done by Leandro Cappetto, of TOMA.
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#5 ...AND NAKED
FINALIST PROJECT AT YAP MOMA/PS1, SANTIAGO 2014
APR – JUL 2014 SANTIAGO
The program commissions the participants to develop of an outdoor installation, constrained to use water and to be activated though a series of parties. And Naked does not party. It inquires into the history of the territory, its future, present and past. There are still visible the last remains of the biggest socialist complex “Villa San Luis”, turned some years ago into the new financial center “Nueva Las Condes”. Activate a place is not only make it habitable but also to make it speak. The proposal is a story, a tale about a place, between the real and the utopic, between the pain and the game which tries to unmask hidden histories and set free the imagination. The facade of the Villa San Luis housing project is used as a support of the project in the ground, above this broken and reconstructed facade appears eight wooden characters, between bridges and platforms, offering observation points and places for discussion about future cities.
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#6 INFANTE 1415 In 2014, after the first rehabilitation of the warehouse developed by Toma*, a second phase was commissioned: to transform the exterior space of the factory into a patio. The scope of the project transcended the structural requirements. The most essential part of the project was the development and strengthening of the local community, a group of empowered neighbors who would be able to organize, appropriate and make decisions over the territory. For this reason, the members of the local community are actively involved into the design and construction process. The process is rendered open and visible through a series of devices developed to expose decisions, resources and reflections of the group. Is in this point where the project expresses its political dimension, as an active condition of the citizens able to democratize public resources and processes. The materialization of the project is understood as a tool whose scope is handing the abilities to boost self- organization and selfmanagement of the community. Products: The Carpentry / The Meeting House / The Kitchen / The Stage / The Bee-Hives / The Orchard » Infante 1415 Facebook » Video of the first stage
PATIO FOR A PUBLIC CREATION FACTORY
NOV 2015 – JAN 2015 SANTIAGO
#7 HEADQUARTERS The School of Architecture of UDLA (Universidad de Las Americas) commissioned TOMA to lead an infrastructural intervention at the rooftop of its campus in the district of Providencia. Toma developed a workshop consisting of two stages: Imaginary and Community Linkage, and Design and Construction. During the first stage, the students approached the project through different perspectives: The Utopia, the Matter and the Community. The group got to a definition of the program and a first design through a number of activities and products; surveys, models, a theater play, a public event, a Manifesto, etc. As the first stage finished, the program was defined: The Students Headquarters, a place made by and for them, an infrastructure that aims to trigger a new empowered students’ organization. In the second phase, the students designed and built the Headquarters, established the protocols of its functioning and presented the project to the community.
EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP
OCT - DEC 2015 SANTIAGO
#8 THE LABYRINTH Hecho en Casa Festival of Urban Interventions launches an open competition every year. TOMA developed one of the selected projects. A specific site was chosen: a residual urban piece from the urban transportation projects, a place with no use, abandoned in the center of the city. A few blocks from one of the biggest open markets of Santiago La Vega and a few steps from one of the largest Cultural Centers in the city Estacion Mapocho. The project proposes a labyrinth, made of modular wooden frame panels covered by a red translucent plastic. The labyrinth is the only architecture without a function, a place to get lost, and works as an irony for the city and its complex configuration which leaves residual places all over the town. One of those places which is transformed into a place of mystery, game, trap, disorientation, loneliness and reunion along side a regular crosswalk.
TEMPORARY INFRASTRUCTURE NOV 2013 SANTIAGO
#9 CASA DE LA MUSICA II In the context of the fire that affected Valparaiso in2014, CDLM worked with the community of Mesana, an informal settlement in Cerro Mariposas. The purpose was to build a public space with recycled materials, and bring music to a new platform for participation and co-creation from the fundamental idea that “music is a game and we are all in the center”. This modest square made out of reclaimed materials housed the activities developed by CDLM, but most importantly, it became a new place for the organization of the local community. A second stage of the project included resources that made possible the construction of a more definitive public space. Adults and children got involved both in building and musical tasks. As in its previous activation, CDLM put together infrastructure and program in order to explore the possibilities of music as a social trigger.
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MESANA: AFTER THE FIRE MAY 2014 VALPARAISO
#10 VALDIVIA RIVERFRONT The Project was presented a competition launched by the city government of Valdivia for the urban design of the riverfront. While the city has taken new territories from the river, the symbiotic relation between them has been affected. The project aims to reform the existing rigidity of the relation of the City and the Calle-calle river. The restoration of the ecosystem of the fluvial border and fostering the potential connectivity of the river are the main issues for this purpose. The riverside is conceived v as a lineal park conformed of nodes than combine landscape, transportation, sports, contemplation, and the social and economical exchange. The preservation and recovery of the local flora and fauna is regarded as a central part of the project. The design is inspired on the geography surrounding the city. The main operation is the formal transference of the meander, which goes from the basic tile to the geographical formations that link the human transit and the flow of the river.
URBAN DESIGN COMPETITION
MAY 2014 VALDIVIA