Colaboradores / Collaborators. Eduardo Castillo, Danilo Lazcano, Patricio Alvarado,. Alejandro Lüer. Ubicación / Location. Libertad 410, Santiago, Chile.
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Performing Arts Hall Smiljan Radic Profesor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Santiago, Chile 2010 -2015
Declaring a building as heritage assumes that a property is exceptional enough to be protected (i.e., excluded from the dynamics of urban renewal). Such a legal exception, however, often sentences a building to ruin by preventing any possible operation on it. In this case, paradoxically, the deterioration itself generated by the declaration allowed almost complete renovation of the building, enabling a truly exceptional project. Keywords · heritage, recovery, theater, Santiago, Chile
The project for this experimental arts hall proposes an emptying operation, in which the same municipal regulations that halted the building’s renovation and brought on its current disrepair are used to our advantage. The facade is the only structure that remained intact after the fire in 2006 and the earthquake in 2010. These disasters opened up the interior and erased forever the remains of eight houses that had occupied the site. The project totally empties the property, reproducing the original facade until it is complete in every detail, making it a sort of friendly disguise. The city can be seen from inside through the gaps, forming part of the backdrop for some of the events. Few structural elements touch the ground on the first floor: the lift, a staircase and the support wall for mobile tiers. The pathway for the theatralized audience hangs from a center girder and culminates on the roof-terrace, proposed for a popular circus. Everything seems to have been measured from above. The circus is the first, the most primitive and the most austere place imaginable for shows. A strange A R Q 9 2 32 U C C H I L E
Arquitecto / Architect Smiljan Radic Colaboradores / Collaborators Eduardo Castillo, Danilo Lazcano, Patricio Alvarado, Alejandro Lüer Ubicación / Location Libertad 410, Santiago, Chile Cliente / Client Fundación Patrimonio Creativo Ingeniería estructural / Structural engineering byb ingeniería Estructural Ltda. Materiales / Materials Hormigón Armado / Reinforced Concrete Superficie construida / Built surface 1.770 m2
Vista aérea sitio original / Aerial view of original site © Smiljan Radic
Superficie terreno / Site surface 1.270 m2 Año de Proyecto / Project year 2010-2014 Año de construcción / Construction year 2015
Vista aérea obra concluida / Aerial view of completed building © Smiljan Radic
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objet trouvé, a long way from its home, will appear above the theatre; a source of delight for the neighborhood. The rehearsal rooms, offices and services occupy other houses in the complex, turning the entire building as it stands into a new internally interrelated organism. ARQ
Smiljan R adic Architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1989. Studies in Architectural History at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and in Design at the Istituto Andrea Palladio in Vicenza. His work has been widely published and exhibited internationally. He has lectured in Mexico, Spain, Norway, Austria, Japan and usa . In 2001 was awarded Best Chilean architect under 35 years by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile. In 2008 achieves the Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard Award and in 2009 is appointed honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. In 2013 was summoned to design the 2014 pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery in London. He currently works with the sculptress Marcela Correa.
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