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P O R T F O L I O | 2017

VALERIA MUÃ&#x2018;OZ BIGGS Selected ArchitectualStudies January 2017

valeriabiggs@gmail.com +569 82341972

VALERIA MUÃ&#x2018;OZ BIGGS

Vaticano 3531, Las Condes. Santiago-Chile valeriabiggs@gmail.com +569 82341972

INDEX

CV Projects Index Diploma Project Collaboration with Fabio Cruz Architect Collaboration with Hevia & Urzua Architects Collaboration with Guillermo Hevia Architect Student Work

ARCHITECT |

Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUC) Maximum Distinction (Grade for Degree Project) - School of Architecture-PUC. Received excellence award: Premio Excelencia Academica de la Generación, PUC, November 2014 EDUCATION 2006-2007 : Bachelor in Social Comuniction - PUC 2008-2012 : BA in Architecture - PUC March 2014 : Architect Title - PUC Maximum Distinction (7.0/7.0) Received Excellence Award: PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2017

- Fabio Cruz Architect.

2016

- Fabio Cruz A rchitect. - Rahul Mehrotra, Felipe Vera y José Mayoral architects. - PUC | Design Studio IV | Assistant lecturer - Publication: "Ephemeral Urbanism: Cities in Constant Flux"

2015 :

- Rahul Mehrotra, Felipe Vera y José Mayoral Architects. - Guillermo Hevia Garcia + Nicolas Urzúa Architects. - Philippe Blanc Architect - Ramón Valdés & Associated Architects

2014:

- Ramón Valdés & Associated Architects - PUC | Design Studio III | Assistant lecturer

2013

- PUC | Extension and External Services Lo Contador (DESE) - PUC | Design Studio III | Assistant lecturer

2012

- Enrique Browne & Associated Architects - PUC | Introduction to Architecture | Assistant lecturer - Aguiló & Pedraza Architects

2011

- La Florida Municipality - Innsitu Architects

2010

- Vaticano apartment (remodelling)

2009

- Augusto Angelini Architect

SKILLS Hand draw, physical models, Photography Autocad. Photoshop; Ilustrator, Indesign. Sketchup pro, Vray. LANGUAGE Native Spanish Fluent English (IELTS 6.5 overall)

PROJECTS INDEX

DEGREE PROCESS!2013-2014

MASTER PLAN - PUQUEN RESERVE | 2013-2014 MASTER PLAN

CIENTIFIC BUILDING - PUQUEN RESERVE | 2013-2014

MASTER PLAN PUERTO COIHUE | 2016-2017

REFUGE 01 & 02 - PUERTO COIHUE | 2016-2017 STABLE - PUERTO COIHUE | 2016-2017

FADEU BUILDING | 2015

THREE VAULTS HOUSE | 2015

INVESTIGATION CENTER - LOS MOLLES | 2012

CHUNGUNGO HOT SPRINGS | 2011

HUERTA DEL MAULE MARKET | 2010

CHILE'S EMBASSY | 2009

HOUSE IN VALPARAISO | 2008

PAVILION | 2007

Project Responsabilities: Whole Project & Representaition

DIPLOMA PROJECT

Prof. Luis Eduardo Bresciani & Umberto Bonomo | 2013-2014

DEGREE PROCESS

WORKSHOP X

CLASS I

CLASS II

DEGREE PROJECT

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The class explored the relationship between nature and artifice within the framework of a vulnerable area dedicated to the conservation of the natural environment. The case study was the design of infrastructure to house the research and dissemination of the native flora and fauna of the Parque PuquĂŠn nature reserve in Los Molles, Region V, Chile. The assignment is based on the real need of the owners of the nature reserve to boost the numbers of both scientific and touristic visitors. The project proposes to address the nature and character of a program sited within a reserve, seeking to take care of the close relationship that exists between architecture and an area declared to be natural heritage. Therefore, the starting point will be to take the existing area as material for the proposal, understanding it as a complex thickness in which various layers of information are overlaid. On this topography, realities will be observed that will finally comprise the architectural problem and lead us to draw up the guidelines of the structure. On this occasion, the development theme began in an assignment of Workshop X (shown later) before becoming a persistent analysis of proposal and counterproposal for the needs and requirements of a certain client. Only thus were the role, responsibility and nature of the structure to be designed finally understood and outlined. (This evolution from Workshop X - Class I - Class II - Degree Project Exam is shown below in chronological order)

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CLASS I OBSERVATIONS WORKSHOP X The proposal fulfilled the material and expressive comprehension of the development of a construction system. This was added to with interesting programmatic and perceptual relationships. In turn, the building responded to the need to take care of the vulnerable ground and a landscape that is intended to be part of the project. However, the project turns out to be a kind of object in itself, an autonomous artefact that could be in various different places within the reserve and, therefore, demonstrated a failure in the observation of the realities and relationships with that site. It reveals naiveté in the background of the relationship and the construction of a place (it was simply "placed" on the site without going further).

OBJECTIVE IMAGE OF PROPOSAL CLASS I

ÂŠSCALE 1:2000 PLASTER MODEL OF THE ECOLOGICAL RESERVE AND THE TOWN OF LOS MOLLES. THE MAIN LAYERS ARE SHOWN AS A MASS: LAYOUTS-STREETS, AREAS OF VEGETATION-BUILDINGS AND THE TOPOGRAPHY

CLASS II OBSERVATIONS CLASS I After visiting the site several times, new questions arose. Measuring and studying the site regarding all of its conditions, along with drawing the proposal on the ground at 1:1 scale, revealed that it could not be sited there, or at least not at the size and in the way it would have been done at that stage. Finally, the project would not provide new or better conditions than those already existing and, on the contrary, would impair the most attractive part of the location: the natural viewpoint, the plant diversity and the drop down to the beach with the portal. These observations end up by formulating a counterproposal to the initial assignment: the program should be exploited and the site should therefore be reconsidered. The works should be much more minor and smaller, which made more sense for the operation of separating the program, as much to seek a new scale as well as to understand that, functionally, they could be grouped in a more efficient manner.

©PLANIMETRY OF POSITIONING OF THE PROPOSAL WITH THE FOUR POINTS-STATIONS TO BE WORKED UPON

FIG.5

WILL LINK THE STATIONS IS THE EXISTING PATH WHICH WILL NOT BE ALTERED, BUT WILL INSTEAD BE INTENSIFIED VIA THESE FOUR INDIVIDUAL OPERATIONS. BEHIND THIS ARE THE 1:200 SCALE MODELS BUILT IN PLASTER TO STUDY THE TOPOGRAPHY OF EACH OF THE SITES TO BE WORKED UPON. PANORAMIC VIEWS OF EACH PLACE ARE SHOWN BELOW.

PROPOSAL As a strategy it was decided to locate the project along the coastline, creating a 1.3km circuit from the access route to PuquĂŠn. This decision was taken to enhance the park's best-shaped route, in addition to understanding that this first line is almost entirely rocky and arid ground, which would mean that the impact of the construction would not be aggressive for protected vegetation. This line will have four stops or stations which will be sited where the extensions of clay cover larger areas. These stations are the choice of a significant part of the land and will be used to build the totality and continuity of the project. We will look at the building not as a monumental edifice, but rather we will understand that the constructed project will be formed by its parts, which are united by the layout and by the experience, and that is where its entirety resides.

ÂŠ MODEL OF THE MASTER PLAN BUILT IN SOLID WOOD AND IRON AT 1:500 SCALE

Â© MODEL BUILT IN SOLID WOOD, WHICH IS AN EXPERIMENT WITH THE MATERIAL AND THE METHOD OF BUILDING IN MASS OR RATHER DISINTEGRATING IT.

©MODEL 1:100 SCALE OF THE FIRST APPROACH TO A STRUCTURAL SYSTEM AND SEARCH FOR THE EXPRESSION OF THE BUILDING THROUGH THE STRUCTURE

Project Responsabilities: Whole Project & Representaition

DIPLOMA PROJECT

PUQUEN RESERVE MASTER PLAN

Prof. Luis Eduardo Bresciani & Umberto Bonomo | 2013-2014

Edited photography| fundamental observation of the project

OPEN CLASS CASE STUDY In the first instance, taking into account the case study by a client, the theme to be developed was naively inserted at the edge of the project assigned: how a use ceases to be a threat to the conservation of the park and how a silent dialogue is built with the natural environment. What utility can an architectural proposal provide in terms of care for and organization and protection of the Reserve. How this project can become an opportunity for the sustainable development of this area. How the local community around Los Molles is included in the daily use of the protected area. How the program constructs and organizes a circuit. How this is drawn and sites the territorial displacements. How to build on land that is heritage. What role does the constructed form have in the landscape and what is its language and intensity. How the construction is addressed and its relationship with the architecture and the place. What role does the structure and its constructive expression fulfil. These are some of the questions produced by the field of action and setting the routes of interest in the development of the proposal.

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DEGREE PROJECT OBSERVATIONS CLASS ll As a first approach, thought is given to the influence and the role of the project in the area of Los Molles, understanding that the park is a fundamental element for the community. This led us to rethink the responsibility and aim of the project in urban terms and regarding the strategy of land management for the conservation of the Reserve. As a second theme, it was observed that is was necessary to make the accessways and circulation of the project clearer, leading us to rethink the circuit, this time as an autonomous and constructed element; an apparatus that would be present in the landscape and in the management of its surroundings. As a third point it was advisable to detail the equivalence of intensities between the form and the landscape with greater clarity. To do this it was suggested to insist on the construction as a way of discussing that equivalence, as well as to address it as a relevant problem of the architectural proposal. The project proposed the use of wood in small timbers, but the development of the constructive scope in the formal and habitational expression was left pending.

FLOOR PLAN OF SITE PUQUEN RESERVE. 1:2000 SCALE

AXONOMETRICS |

ROCKS

ROADS AND TRUCKS

GREEN AREAS

TOPOGRAPHY

Â©PUQUEN RESERVE. IDENTIFICATION OF THE MAIN LAYERS OF THE TERRITORY.

Â© 1::2000 SCALED MODEL OF THE TOWN OF LOS MOLLES AND THE RESERVE IN WHICH THE PROPOSAL WOULD BE PLACED

ARTEFACT ON THE GROUND. FLOOR PLAN OF PROJECT

Section elevation view of the project

PUQUEN BIOPARK ECOLOGICAL RESERVE ECOSYSTEM | natural limits The PuquĂŠn Reserve is an area of land limited to the south and the west by a coastline of steep rocky cliffs, to the north by the Ruta 5 Norte highway and to the east by a wall that marks the beginning-end of the town of Los Molles. Within the reserve, the native vegetation, the rocks and the topography are responsible for constructing the forms of displacement and the qualities of the area. A reddish sand path criss-crosses the reserve; starting from a road that begins at the entrance point and which then splits into various gravel side paths which cross the whole area of the park. The way in which the reserve is interlinked is a fairly natural and almost random trail that leaves the visitor skirting patches of vegetation, rocks and cliffs. This trail is important to understand the function of the reserve and the possible guidelines for the location of the project. THE WALL | an artificial limits Besides the natural limits of the park, there is also an artificial border; a concrete and stone wall running north-south that separates the Reserve from the town of Los Molles. The reason for its construction was to protect and safeguard access to the park, a factor that has led to the isolation and preservation that we currently see in the Reserve and which has not been achieved in the surrounding area. This dividing wall is the only element that currently forms the transfer between the urban area and the conservation park. At this line it is possible to project a territorial area destined to articulate both situations in a better way.

Artefact on the territory.

WOODEN MODELS AT 1:500 SCALE SHOWING THE VOLUMETRIC ORGANIZATION OF THE MASTER PLAN AND THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE AREA TO BE BUILT UPON. THERE ARE ACCOMPANYING IMAGES AND TEXTURES OF THE PLACE, AS WELL AS LAND ART REFERENCES.

© WOODEN MODELS AT 1:200 SCALE | SHOWING THE VOLUMETRIC ORGANIZATION OF THE MASTER PLAN, THE CHARACTER AND EXPRESSION OF THE BUILDINGS AND THE CIRCUIT THAT IS CREATED THROUGH THEM. LED LIGHTS ARE ADDED TO THE MODEL TO STUDY THE EXPRESSION OF THE SET-UP BY NIGHT, BUILDINGS-LIGHTS THAT DISPLAY THE LAYOUT AND REVEAL ITS STRUCTURE.

Project Responsabilities: Whole Project & Representaition

DIPLOMA PROJECT

PUQUEN RESERVE SCIENTIFIC BUILDING

Prof. Luis Eduardo Bresciani & Umberto Bonomo | 2013-2014

AXONOMETRICS

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1: 100 SCALE MODEL OF THE MAIN BUILDING. STUDY OF STRUCTURE AND ENCLOSURE

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FIG.14

A-A´ SECTION HOSTEL & LABORATORY

B-B´ SECTION HOSTEL & LABORATORY

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FIG.20

1: 100 SCALE MODEL OF THE MAIN BUILDING. STUDY OF STRUCTURE AND ENCLOSURE

JOINT AXONOMETRICS

Project Responsabilities: Collaboration in the design process, make de experimental models and the final models, make the architetural drawings, make the constructive drawings

FABIO CRUZ & VALERIA MUÃ&#x2018;OZ BIGGS LAGO TODOS LOS SANTOS, X REGION , CHILE.

Fabio Cruz Architect | Positicion: colalborating Architect

MASTER PLAN PUERTO COIHUE

Natural Limits: Topography / Forest / Clift

Proposed Limits Zoning / Access

1. OLD FOREST 2. NEW FOREST 3. CLIFT 4. LEVELS EVERY 5MT.

1. COIHUE 1: MAIN HOUSE 2. COIHUE 2: PAMPA DE L VOLACANES 3. COIHUE 3: PARK ACCE 4. COIHUE 4: PAMPA OF TREES 5. COIHUE 5: MORRO 6. COIHUE 6: PAMPA DE U 7. COIHUE 7: COIHUES CA 8. ACCESS 9. FENCES 10. ROAD NETWORK

5. LEVEL EVERY 1MT.

11. NETWORK OF TRAILS

s: s / Fences.

Landscape units: Unique places / Roads / Trails / Constructions

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1. CLEAR 2. ROAD NETWORK 3. NETWORK OF TRAILS 4. SINGULAR PLACES 5.CONSTRUCTIONS - SERVICE 6. CONSTRUCTION - REFUGIO 7. CONSTRUCTIONS - MAIN HOUSE

ESS APPLE

ULMO ATHEDRAL

Intervention Plan Schemes esc. 1: 3000

Geographical Predictions:

TOPOGRAPHY / FOREST / CLEAR / TREES /

Preexistencias Constructed:

EXISTING ROADS / PROPOSED ROADS / PROPOSED ROAD

DS / PROPOSED FENCES / TRAILS

AILS

Electricity & Wat

Diagrama de Agua y Electricidad

Río Coihue

Bocatoma de agua 2

Tubería HDP 5"

Toma de Agua Pretil 50 cm (sacos de ar Filtro

250 mts.

Quebrada 1

Bocatoma de agua 1

Tubería HDP 5"

Toma de Agua Conexión Bocatoma 2 Pretil 2 mt (hormigón armado) Filtro bocatoma 1

Quebrada 2

218 mts.

Tubería Colgante

Tensor

(Quebrada)

Tubería HDP 5"

30 mts.

Acumulación

Pérdida de presión

135 mts.

Punto Y

Bifurcación agua potable y generación de energía

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C PV

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60 mts.

Tu ber

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165 mts.

+83

+63

Turbina (

Estanques Almacenamiento

capacidad 3

200lt. p/p al día Capacidad de Almacenamiento: 20.000lts. Capacidad máx= 100 personas

Almacenad Sala de bat

Distribuición

TDA

(Tablero d

+75

+76

+62 +66 +61

89mts.

76mts.

49mts.

127mts.

65mts.

165mts.

150mts.

222mts.

183mts.

197mts.

222mts.

165mts.

Casa del C Centro de Caballeri

Hospederí Unidad 1

179mts.

+59

181mts.

89mts.

+56

203mts.

82mts.

Casa Prin Quincho Huerto

Jardín

+59 +60

348mts.

163mts.

391mts.

216mts.

423mts.

260mts.

Extensión

ter

Diagram +151

rena)

+96

+81

+83

+63

Acueducto

39 mts.

(Reposicionar Turbina)

Encauce

Estructura de madera Sección: 50 cm de ancho Gargola de terminación en madera

3kw

dor de energía tería de litio

de distribución general)

Cuidador e servicios izas

Caída de Agua Oxigenación Laguna

ías 1, 2 y 3

6 mts.

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Embalse +52

Laguna

Superficie Laguna: 1899 mt2 Profundidad promedio: 1.5 mt Volumen: 2848 mt3

n Futura

Pretil Puente

Máx. 5mt de altura 2mt de ancho (puente) Materialidad según especialista

Arroyo

218 mts.

Tubería HDP 5"

Escurrimiento

198 mts.

Turbina secundaria Capacidad: 3kw

Almacenador de energía Sala de batería de litio

Lago Todos los Santos

10 mts.

+19

Acueducto

Estructura de madera Sección: 50 cm de ancho gargola de terminación en madera

±0

Project Responsabilities: Collaboration in the design process, make de experimental models and the final models, make the architetural drawings, make the constructive drawings

FABIO CRUZ & VALERIA MUÃ&#x2018;OZ BIGGS LAGO TODOS LOS SANTOS, X REGION , CHILE.

Fabio Cruz Architect | Positicion: colalborating Architect

REFUGES 01&02 PUERTO COIHUE

PLAN VIEW - PLA

PHOTOGRAPH

ACEMENT REFUGE 01 & 02.

OF THE PLACE.

PLAN VIEW - SEC

COND FLOOR - R01

PLAN VIEW - FIRS

ST FLOOR - R01

PLAN VIEW - SEC

COND FLOOR - R01

SECTION VIE

EWS - R01

CONSTUCTIVE SEC

CTION - R01

FABIO CRUZ & VALERIA MUÃ&#x2018;OZ BIGGS LAGO TODOS LOS SANTOS, X REGION , CHILE.

Fabio Cruz Architect | Positicion: colalborating Architect

STABLE PUERTO COIHUE

PLAN VIEW - PLACEMENT ST

TABLE BUILDING

Project Responsabilities: Collaboration in the design process, make de experimental models and the final models

COMPETITION FOR THE NEW BUILDING OF THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AT P.U.C FADEU CMPC BUILDING

GUILLERMO HEVIA + NICOLAS URZUA | Cargo: Arqutecto Colaborador

The most relevant aspect of the building is related to its layout, how it is located within the campus, and the relationships it establishes with the geographic scale, the neighbourhood, the campus, the surrounding buildings and the new exterior spaces that it forms. We have considered the new building as a key part of a larger whole and not as a unique architectural element. In this sense, we see the idea of a whole as more relevant. We have proposed the building as a slender bar parallel to the street Los Navegantes, in the same vein as the School of Design Building and at the same height, in order to maintain a unique profile towards the neighbourhood and towards the campus. We have also opted to use an 8m-wide bay in order to liberate the site as much as possible in the transverse direction. The aim is to keep the visual relationships within the campus as intact as possible, thus avoiding a new element appearing in the profile. The 8m bay, and the fact that it is aligned to the north with the School of Design, means that it cannot be seen from any part of the Orange Tree Patio and the Manor Gardens.

EXTRIOR VIEW

CONTEXT AXNOMOMETRICS

We wanted to construct the building in the most slender and programmatically flexible way possible. A visible reinforced concrete grid is proposed measuring 8x4 m. (Module larger than 8x8 m on the floor plan and 4x4 m at the front, with 35x35 cm pillars). These three elements allow us to have a building that does not need bracing walls and which has the advantage of having effectively free floor plans when moving the supporting structure to the perimeter. This grid is raised above a reinforced concrete base similar in height to the Design School Building (2.15 m), so as to respect and be aligned with the pre-existing elements and creating a slight distance at the level 0.0. The measurements of the grid define a structural module that at the same time is a programmatic module which allows three arrangements: A. Free floor plans 8m wide both on the base floor and for the architecture workshops. B. Central elements with perimeter circulations (2m + 4m + 2m) for Seminar Rooms, Meeting Rooms, Board Room and Vertical Circulations. C. Programs with central circulation (3.2m + 1.6m + 3.2m) for specific offices and smaller rooms.

BUILDING AXNOMOMETRICS

PLAN VIEW

SECTION VIEW

The grid is a solution in which structural and programmatic order is central. In this sense, the building has a structural, neutral and timeless character that makes the idea of covering it non-essential, replacing it with the idea of a habitable structure. In the proposal all of the programmatic rooms that are added are understood as wooden elements that complete the interior and exterior bulkheads of the grid. These aspects allow not only having a 100% flexible floor plan, but also mean that the exterior sides are too, since it is comprised by many independent wooden bulkheads that can be replaced, maintained and transformed independently, assuming that in the future the building may undergo programmatic changes with complete freedom and feasibility.

AXONOMETRICS

The use of reinforced concrete for the load-bearing structure and the wood for fillings and interiors is based on a logic that implies very low maintenance and allows great elegance. The non-structural wooden pieces use two specific and unique logics of this material, the fortified parts for circulations and vertical cores, and the panelling for the exterior bulkheads and interior programmatic rooms. Although it is a reinforced concrete building, wood plays a fundamental role in the construction and completion of both the building on its exterior sides, as well as achieving warmth and a unique atmosphere in the interior.

The new building integrates programs, services and academic units whose operations are not completely interrelated, achieving a hybrid condition. In addition, exterior spaces are created that are aligned with the logic of gardens and empty spaces that characterize the Lo Contador Campus and which are as relevant as the programs of the building itself. The structural features and the width of the bay of the new FADEU-CMPC Building facilitate cross-ventilation systems, both horizontal (on each floor) by opening windows and hatches on both sides (north and south), as well as vertical ventilation through the stairways. In addition, covered and shaded exterior spaces alternate with interior spaces, which allow for more temperate environments. The roof of the building is built with ventilation based on a slab with thermal insulation and, on top of this, tiles supported on piles, leaving a ventilated air chamber on the side with greatest exposure to the sun. Thermal insulation is also proposed for floors between the base and floor 2, as well as between the subsoil level and the underground level. The 8m width of the bay allows natural lighting of all areas, so artificial lighting does not need to be used during the day. The sides with greatest exposure to the sun have abundant trees in front of them, serving as a barrier to direct solar radiation in the summer, but also allowing the entry of filtered light. In the winter, due to the loss of leaves from deciduous trees, solar radiation reaches the interior, which helps warm up the environment.

Project Responsabilities: Collaboration in the design process, make de experimental models and the final models, make the architetural drawings, make the constructive drawings

ASSIGNMENT OCHO QUEBRADAS, LOS VILOS

Guillermo Hevia García Architect | Cargo: Collaborating Architect

TRES BÓVEDAS HOUSE

PROPOSAL The house in Los Vilos involves the design of a place that has no prior user or specific site, a situation that obligatorily requires the project to be considered with a certain programmatic and formal neutrality. Bearing this idea in mind, we have sought to define certain formal, spatial, material and atmospheric conditions that are strong and weighty enough to resist adaptations to a specific user in the future. One of the main characteristics of the site is the climatic conditions, specifically the sun and wind. As a consequence of this we wanted to build shade using a large roof formed by vaults, under which there would be a series of covered and temperate spaces, with an agreeable temperature and controlled amounts of light, capable of defining an atmosphere. An initial starting point is to consider how a house by the sea should be, how to value leisure time and rest. A house has been proposed in which public and private spaces would be more ambiguous and could have different degrees of relationships, functioning either together or in isolation. Depending on the users or the occasion, the house can become more private or more open, more related to the exterior and the sun, or focusing more on its temperate interior.

EXTERIOR VIEW

PLAN VIEW

The structural and programmatic organization works by repeating nine square units measuring 4.8m by 4.8m. This measurement allows light to be saved without too much effort. Each unit will be associated with an enclosed area, being shaped as a grid. The visual and acoustic relationships between these units are moderated by smaller elements and have differing degrees of transparency, corresponding to bathrooms, fire or spaces for cooking. These two organizations allow the house to be rearranged in the future in accordance with new needs, shaping things differently, expanding or shrinking. The proposal is to build the entire house with painted wood, which works very well close to the sea, and with small timbers, thus achieving an economic construction more closely related to local and manual labor. The work may be done by a small number of people without the need for large earth movements or machinery. Our proposal has been designed to maintain the spirit of a fragile construction, closer to a tent or a mobile home than a building, so it may be adapted to any site, thus producing a low impact on the land. The structural and programmatic organization works by repeating nine square units measuring 4.8m by 4.8m. This measurement allows light to be saved without too much effort. Each unit will be associated with an enclosed area, being shaped as a grid. The visual and acoustic relationships between these units are moderated by smaller elements and have differing degrees of transparency, corresponding to bathrooms, fire or spaces for cooking. These two organizations allow the house to be rearranged in the future in accordance with new needs, shaping things differently, expanding or shrinking. The proposal is to build the entire house with painted wood, which works very well close to the sea, and with small timbers, thus achieving an economic construction more closely related to local and manual labor. The work may be done by a small number of people without the need for large earth movements or machinery. Our proposal has been designed to maintain the spirit of a fragile construction, closer to a tent or a mobile home than a building, so it may be adapted to any site, thus producing a low impact on the land. Report based on the text of Guillermo Hevia G.

AXONOMETRICS

SECTION VIEW

INTERIOR VIEWS

SECTION VIEW

AXONOMETRICS

1:50 SCALE MODELS TO STUDY THE STRUCTURE ANDS THE SPACIALITY OF HE VAULTS

CONSTRUCTIVE SECTION VIEW

Project Responsabilities: The Whole Project & Representation.

WORKSHOP X: FROM THE MATERIAL TO THE FORM

Prof.Diego Aguilรณ & Rodrigo Pedraza

RESEARCH CENTER IN LOS MOLLES

A REAL AND SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENT: On this occasion, as a topic the owner of the Ecological Reserve proposes the development of an assignment/competition based on a real requirement and a specific program: A scientific and touristic station for the PuquĂŠn Biopark | Los Molles, Region V, Chile. As regards the project process, the workshop proposed creating a constant dialogue between material and form, with the intention that the starting point would come from understanding of the constructive, spatial and expressive possibilities of the subject. The relationship between construction and architecture was addressed based on the prior conditions of a material, its possibilities for construction of architectural elements and how this limited the meaning of the form. To what extent does the architectural expression depend on its constructive concept? This question guided the workshops regarding those aspects of construction that create an architectural meaning.

PLANTA EMPLAZAMIENTO

PROPOSAL The proposal is created to provide a permanent space both to the visitor and to groups of scientists that tour the nature reserve. The program is summarized in an exhibition space and cafeteria on the first floor, as well as a small lodge and workplace for scientists on the second floor. The project appears to be a three dimensional structure made of wood, the thickness of which creates the outline of the project and also manages to be the support for the programmatic volumes suspended over the exhibition area. On the one hand, this thickness creates a direct and close relationship with the exhibition area that surrounds it. On the other, this framework seeks to create a dialogue with the landscape and geography. With this, a permeable central area is constructed that is "stranded" at the viewpoint, where the structure and the constructive system are responsible for determining the relationship with the place and with the spaces proposed. This system creates the expression and character of the building, as well as being a fundamental element of organization in its layout and programmatic relations. In terms of its positioning and the relationship with the ground, the project sought to be light and non-invasive (in visual and construction terms), so the decision was made to opt for a permeable enclosure, which is the structure and the perimeter layout space of the project, and from which the habitational programs "hang" from the upper floor. As a strategy to enhance the value of the land and its species, it was decision to draw a patio, which increases its value, surrounding, protecting and framing it.

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

TRANSVERSAL SECTION

LONGITUDINAL SECTION

PLAN VIEW SECOND FLOOR

PLAN VIEW FIRST FLOOR

PLAN VIEW UNDERGROUNG

EXTERIOR VIEWS

B-B´ LONGITUDINALSECTION

A-A´ TRANSVERSAL SECTION

INTERIOR VIEWS

STRUCTURE AXONOMETRICS

JOINT AXONOMETRICS

1:250 SCALE MODEL. TERRITORY SITUATION

1:200 SCALE EXPERIMENTATION MODEL

1:100 SCALE MODEL. PROJECT & SITE

1:50 SCALE MODEL. STRUCTURE STUDY

1:25 SCALE MODEL. STRUCTURE STUDY

Project Responsabilities: The Whole Project & Representation.

DESIGN STUDIO IX: DÃ&#x2030;TOURNEMENT

Prof. Cecilia Puga

CHUNGUNGO TOURIST CENTRE

PLACE AND REMAINS 1. LUGAR Y HUELLAS The density of derived derivados from thisdeoccupation La densidad de events acontecimientos esta has marked their area through constructions, ocupación ha marcado su superficie mediante con-earth movements remains;de many of ywhich have been abstrucciones,and movimientos tierra huellas, muchas de las cuales ido siendountil absorbidas el paisaje sorbed by thehan landscape their por edges have been hasta borrárseles sus bordes. blurred. Del mismo modoremains que losphotographed restos fotografiados por RisSimilar to the by Sophie Sophie Ristelhueber de estasappears evidencias, telhueber (1), some (1), of algunas this evidence on the aparecen sobre la superficie abstracta de estas zoabstract surface of these arid areas, far from the nas áridas, lejanas de la anécdota de sus orígenes. anecdote their origins. After the emotionlas of the Habiendo of desaparecido la emoción del evento, event has disappeared, the marks become solely gemarcas devienen solo geometría y material. ometry and material. Interpretar esta realidad altered modificada Interpreting this reality by por manelashombre a new macomo and una nueva naturaleza material yall virtual, evitan- and terial virtual nature, avoiding consecration do toda sacralización y operación "institutional" operation of the "institucional" fragment andso-definbrenew el fragmento y, definir identidades arqui- will ing architectural andnuevas constructive identities tectónicas y constructivas, constituirán el centro del constitute the focus of the workshop. trabajo del taller.

PHOTOGRAPHS GIVEN BY CECILIA PUGA

METHOD 2. METODO As to dismantling as a strategy industrial Enopposed contraposición al desmantelamiento como for estrategia frente vestigios industriales y asentamientos remains andaassociated settlements, where mitigation asociados, las obras dethe mitigación borran la works erasedonde the experience, workshop will underexperiencia, el taller entenderá los restosand materistand material remains (constructions vestiges) alesvirtual (construcciones y huellas) y losplans, virtuales (foand remains (photographs, geographical tografías, planos, cartas geográficas y textos) como maps and texts) as patrimonial elements, as a remnant elementos patrimoniales, como huella de la vida y de oflalife and human production and as valid platforms producción humana y como plataformas válidas para to give new architectural and construction dar way cursoto a nuevas realidades arquitectónicas y con-realities. structivas. A partir de ellos construirán una pre-would Based upon them,losa alumnos supposed pre-existence y crearán un lugar in colectivo beexistencia built, andsupuesta, a collective place imagined the desert el created, desierto de Chile, inducidos a lo ofimaginado Chile willenbe induced from afar bylecertain jos por algunos restos o indicios de arquitectura que remains or signs of architecture that will comprise compondrán un inventario constructivo el cual debiera a constructive inventory which should appear in the aparecer en la estrategia personal de intervención. personal strategy of the project. This aninvención invention that Esteinventory inventario is es biased; sesgado,itesisuna que bus-seeks toca create a posible possible constructive imaginary. Mogenerar un imaginario constructivo. Monomaterial, low-tech, low-tech, nonon-institutional, institucional, fragilidad, no-material, fragility, oportunidad-azar,outside fuera detime, tiempo, autoconstrucción are random-chance, self-construction son palabras quedefine ayudanthe a definir los ejemplos prowords that help examples proposed by the puestos por taller y el carácter del conjunto workshop andelthe nature of the whole.

DARSENA OLD DOCK

MINA EL TORO

CRUZ GRANDE CHUNGUNGO CRUZ GRANDE VILLAGE OF CHUNGUNGO

TOFO MINE

LEVANTAMIENTO Y RECOLECCION DE DATOS

INTERPRETACION PLANIMETRICA EN CUANTO A LA OCUPACION TERRITORIAL PLANTA GENERAL DEL CONJUNTO Y SUS PREEXISTENCIAS

OLD DOCK

PHOTOGRAPHS GIVEN BY CECILIA PUGA

TANKS

VILLAGE OF CHUNGUNGO

TOURISM/ PROGRAMMATIC SCOPE In this scenario, Chile appears to the world as pure geography, as a pristine indomitable area. Its (modest) cultural weight, of which these remains are testimony, are quickly erased in pursuit of a clear and comfortable location of Chile on this map where the tourist, already aware, seeks to "savour the pleasure of verification, the joy of recognition "(2). Based on the use of physical and cultural remains and placing the program within the field of tourism, the workshop will design a site and an event centred on the experience of the built environment and, through this project exercise, will review the distinction between places that are culturally "authentic" and cultural experiences that are "staged". The program, dispersed in that 'territory', will constitute an autonomous and self-sustaining unit and will be constituted by three basic program areas. GROUP PROPOSAL | TOURIST CENTRE The existing physical remains, the village of Chungungo, the tanks and the old dock, are included as a base for the location of the parts of the project and as a guide for the manner of its development. In the case of the village of Chungungo, the stone pens form the urban fabric that defines the project management strategy. In addition, the perimeter of the pens is once again inhabited as it was in the past. At the old dock, the concrete piers on the north side are used as support, and their modulation is used to define distances and relationships between the parts of the project. Finally, the project, which I developed personally, is located in the tanks, where the perimeter walls will remain as they were previously and the tanks that stored the oil will be reinterpreted materially to provide a new programmatic twist to the space. The architectural and constructive strategy that the project addresses is initially provided by the reinterpretation of the three material remains into which we insert each project. As a general rule, it was decided to respect and incorporate the stereotomic dimension of each of these ruins, that is, that both in the dock and in Chungungo and the tanks, the foundations, stone walls and the existing ground in terms of its material quality will be incorporated. Then, each project will develop its tectonic law based on the constructive references provided by the workshop or illuminated by the exercise of shadows carried out as a search for a structural and spatial rule. In this way, both languages dialogue with one other, generating a permanent contrast between the fixed and the temporary, between the heavy and the light, between the tectonic and the stereotomic. Based on the description of the workshop, Cecilia Puga, 2011. (1) Ristelhueber, Sophie / FAIT, Books On Books collection, Errata Editions, 2008 (2) AugĂŠ, Marc / EL VIAJE IMPOSIBLE, Gedisa Editorial, 1998

DATA COLLECTION

PLANIMETRIC INTERPRETATION OF THE OLD LOCK

SITUACION ACTUAL DARSENA

SITUACION DARSENA EN USO

LEVANTAMIENTO Y RECOLECCION DE DATOS

INTERPRETACION PLANIMETRICA EN CUANTO A LOS ESTANQUES

PLANTA

CORTE LONGITUDINAL

INDIVIDUAL PROPOSAL | THERMAL BATHS IN THE OLD OIL TANKS What is done in the tanks is to reuse the two perimeters of existing stone walls which contain the main program and, in turn, draw the recreational lines of the project towards the sea. The proposal addresses two material, space and atmospheric rules provided by the old remains. On the one hand, the stone wall is used and interpreted as an element of mass, as a heavy, stony, stereotomic body, and this condition is replicated for each of the volumes contained in the program and which organize the project. On the other hand, the old cylindrical tanks will be reinterpreted based on their more ethereal, tectonic and light condition in order to break them up into different translucent volumes that have the dual function of incorporating light into the project and vertical circulations, as well as being the elements that dialogue with the landscape like great lamps that mark the project.

MAQUETA EXPERIMENTACION MATERIAL Y GEOMETRIA | ESTUDIO LUCARNA

EXPERIMENTAL MODEL. STUDY OF THE MATERUA, THE GEOMETRY AND DE STRUCTURE.

1:500 SCALE MODEL. STUDY OF THEMAQUETA PROJECTEMPLAZAMIENTO. IN TE TERRITORY 1:500

MAQUETA DE YESO ESC. 1:200 | ESTUDIO VOLUMETRICO 1:200 SCALE PLASTER MODEL. STUDY OF THE SPATIALITY AND MATERIAL EXPRESSION

PLANTA SEGUNDO NIVEL

PLAN VIEW FIRST FLOOR

PLAN VIEW SECOND FLOOR

SECTION

VIEWS

SECTION VIEW

EXTERIOR VIEW

EXTERIOR

R VIEWS

Project Responsabilities: Whole Project & Representaition

DESIGN STUDIO V POST EARTHQUAKE

Prof. Enrique del Rio & Pilar Garcia | 2010

HUERTA DEL MAULE MARKET

HUERTA DEL MAIULE MASTER PLAN

PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHS: EATHQUAQUE DAMAGES

MASTER PLAN The proposal appears as a material recognition of the place: the geography, the layouts of the town and the system of existing bases; and as an immaterial recognition, being based on the spatial quality of the corridor. The corridor is interpreted as an intermediate space (interior/ exterior and visit/permanence) and its condition of intimation, which is the manner in which it is inhabited. The strategy of the Master Plan proposes that the constructions, streets and squares hint at this new empty space-garden created by the earthquake. The strategic placement means that the relationships are:â&#x20AC;¨ - in the floor plan: the project is the articulation of the garden with the square â&#x20AC;¨ - in the section view: it is the construction of an intimation of the geography and a new garden. Urban strategy: to reconstitute the square as a civic centre, taking charge of its eastern edge. A commercial character will be given to this eastern edge for its planning and contemplation regarding its spatiality (viewpoint on upper level and covered avenue on lower level). To articulate and enhance these two features groundwork is done with the aim of: - creating a system of covered public avenues - differentiating the square in terms of its relationship with the eastern edge (an area that attracts the gaze from afar) and western edge (a permanent area that is related to the religious centre, having the church to top it off) BUILDING PROGRAM: MARKET Markets are understood as covered avenues that become active because they are in a place of movement, that is, they appear as an opportunity to the passerby. The project could be defined as a permeable covered walkway as it goes in both directions, and both visually and how it is traversed. The decision to attach a market to the civic centre is linked to the reactivation of this space as a meeting centre.

PLAN VIEW FIRST FLOOR | MARKET

PLAN VIEW SECOND FLOOR | MARKET

EXTERIOR VIEW

SECTION VIEWS

SECTION VIEWS: RELATION WITH THE EXISTING SQUARE

1:100 SCALE MODEL

Project Responsabilities: The Whole Project & Representation.

DESIGN STUDIO IV

Prof. Augusto Angelini | 2009

EMBASSY OF CHILE IN BUENOS AIRES

Drawing of the site. Av. El Libertador. Buenos Aires.

ANALYSIS OF BUENOS AIRES 1. Unlike other cities, the nucleus of Buenos Aires was not its geographic centre, but part of its perimeter. The city grew on the edge of the river and, from its nucleus, the port, began growing towards the interior, following the routes of the rail lines. Together with the growth of the city spaces appeared within it: vacant spaces with different functions which later became recreational areas inserted within an orthogonal scheme in continuous expansion. Noli map: shows the empty spaces in the city and how they became green areas. The way of representing them in the model was based on an orthogonal division of the map which formed a module that we coloured and grouped according to the scale of the green area. When developing the green areas, the idea of inhabiting and developing the edge of the river continued in such a way that they created a large park system that clung to the riverside (Bosques de Palermo) and acted as a large permeable mass of vegetation that created the intermediate area between the city and the river.

ANALYSIS OF PLAZA DE CHILE FULL AND EMPTY AREAS: This analysis is directly linked to that of interior views, since the empty areas correspond to strategic points that liberate the vistas within the square; the centre would liberate a 360Â° view and the remaining three a considerable opening towards the entrances. VEGETATION: Each group of trees produces a play of light and shade corresponding to their density and size and also defining the use given regarding the light: (hard light and shade: mixed light and shade: permanent) VISTAS AND ROUTES: The vistas that are connected to the exterior coincide with the main accessways and with the established route.

1:100 SCALE MODEL

OPERATIONS IN THE PROJECT: 1. LIBERATE THE GROUND FLOOR: By liberating the ground floor, the square can be extended to the west and the city extended to the east, meaning that the project is articulated as an intermediate space between the green area and the city. This new hard square is large horizontal window; a window that is inhabited, explored, and which unites two dissimilar spaces. 2. VERTICAL FRAGMENTATION: The complexity produced by the union of two programs in a single space is resolved based on an opening from the sky to the ground which separates the ambassador's house from the work space, achieving the necessary independence between these two areas and the visual union produced by the light well. 3. UNIFYING STRIP A translucent strip holds and contains the spaces, as well as creating the perimeter route that joins them. 4. CROSSING THE STRIP The strip is crossed by the space contained by the house, creating a window frame that opens towards the square. CONCEOTUAL DRAWINGS

1:100 SCALE MODEL. STRUCTURE STUDY

1:100 SCALE MODEL.

ENTRANCES TO THE PROJECT BASED ON FOUR MATERIAL EXPERIMENTS 1. GROUND WORK / CONCRETE: A 1:200 scale model was made of Plaza de Chile in concrete. To do this, the organization of the use of the square was observed and, according to this, the manner in which the project should be used and related in its first material stratum. 2. SUCCESSION OF CUT-THROUGHS / GLASS: Once the proposal of the building took shape, it was proposed to make a glass model at 1:100 scale with 7 consecutive cut-throughs in addition to the main faรงades. Through this exercise it is possible to construct the total virtual volume of the projected building in addition to a spatial analysis that will help to develop the proposal in more detail. 3. STRUCTURE / WOOD With a spatial idea conceived already, the structural thinking that accompanies it begins to develop. To do this, a model is built at 1:100 scale from sections of wood in which the structural principle of post and beam is studied, in addition to all the joints that the project must articulate with the secondary structure of the enclosure and the minor elements. 4. ENVELOPE / ACRYLIC AND PVC A 1:100 scale model is built to study the enclosure of the proposal. A glass strip that surrounds the whole perimeter of the building is responsible for creating the relationship between the interior and exterior, operations that are expressed based on a permeable skin on the upper levels and suspended in the main plan.

Project Responsabilities: The Whole Project & Representation.

DESIGN STUDIO III

Prof. Augusto Angelini | 2009

HOUSE IN VALPARAISO

SKETCHES OF VALPARAISO

OBSERVATIONS ON DRAFT PROJECT: The home in relation to its immediate urban space, the street.

1. SANTIAGO: THE BALCONY IS CONSTITUTED BY THE BUILDING In Santiago there is less city life and the street is not experienced as an urban space; it is reduced to the function of access and mobility. The street simply borders the homes; it is not part of them and is also not constructed as a permanent space. 2. VALPARAISO: THE BALCONY IS CONSTITUTED BY THE GEOGRAPHY Buildings on the hill allow freedom for the vistas, both in public and private spaces. This means that the streets and avenues are true urban balconies. Greater wealth of public life is therefore achieved (the streets are valued as urban spaces and come to be understood as a permanent space).

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OPERATIONS IN THE PROJECT: 1. The volume of the Shop-Workshop creates a relationship with the avenue, with the pedestrian; it is understood as a shop window that becomes active when passed as a permanent public space. 2. The home is suspended above the ground, it is separated from the street, seeking another rhythm; it rises above the dividing walls in search of a distant vista.

1:500 SCALE MODEL

THE BUILDINGS ENVELOP THE HILL

REINA VICTORIA LIFT

MODEL TO STUDY THE METAPHISIC BOX OF OTEIZA

PLAN VIEWS

1:100 SCALE MODEL

Project Responsabilities: Whole Project & Representaition

DESIGN STUDIO I

Porf. Pilar Urrejola | 2007

PAVILION ON SAN CRISTOBAL HILL

SITE: PEĂ&#x2018;IHUE VIEWPOINT, SAN CRISTOBAL HILL We understand the place as an intermediate space that separates-unites the hill from-with the city. This site appears to be a flat area that continues on an inclined plane terminating in the Pedro de Valdivia Norte neighbourhood, in which there is a juxtaposition: the duality of city and nature. So, is it possible to conceive a clear delimitation between the two? PROGRAM: MULTIUSE PAVILION The project proposes to resolve the architectural problem of the delimitation of the spaces, seeking to be a transition between the hill and the city. In order to do this, the site will be planned so as not to cause any major alteration of the area, using the existing attributes to the maximum so that the project can be organized based upon them. The pavilion will have permeability as a notion of organization. It will be constructed visually (literally transparent), in the layout (multiple accessways and free circulation) and in the delimitation of the spaces (screens of vegetation, sliding windows). The interior patios will be important elements, responding to the idea of transition, visual permeability, and providing natural illumination to the subterranean area. A continuous dialogue is thus achieved between the land and the construction. The structure is based on two horizontal planes that cover an "interior patio", and this covering three more. The perimeter is an alignment of sliding glass panels. We will work with 6" by 6" pillars with a regular post-beam system, creating a reiteration of vertical elements that is confused with the tree trunks.

INTERIOR VIEW

EXTERIOR VIEW

AXONOMETRICS

INTERIOR VIEW

1:200 SCALE MODEL

1:100 SCALE MODEL