- Museo y Parque Pedro Del Río
Pedro del Río was a chilean traveller and collectionist. Through four voyages he created a mulltifacetical amount of arms, animals and many other objets related to the different cultures he visited. All of this is located on it’s own house, nowadays an Historical Monument, surrounded by a big native park tha’s also a nuter sanctuary. … Read more
- Parque Metropolitano Oriente “Cerro Alvarado”
El Cerro Alvarado constituye una parte del Sistema Metropolitano de Areas Verdes y Recreación determinado por el Plan Regulador Metropolitano de Santiago. El estatuto legal que permitió por años que el Cerro no sucumbiera bajo el crecimiento de la ciudad mantiene en buenas condiciones su Patrimonio Natural. Su ubicación en medio de las Comunas de … Read more
- Quilapilún House
CREDITS Architects: Roberto Benavente & Asociados. Roberto Benavente, Alejandro Soffia, Gabriel Rudolphy Location: Quilapilun, Colina, Región Metropolitana, Chile Client: Angloamerican Chile Budget: – Constructed Area: 2800 sqm Project year: 2009-2011 + INFO
- Sombreadero Colegio Albert Schweitzer v2.0
Hubo dos modificaciones importantes en el desarrollo del anteproyecto. La primera tiene que ver con la imposibilidad de definir las costillas que llegaban al suelo con un espesor constante y así asegurar la continuidad de la malla. Esto produjo que las concavidades no fueran tan profundas verticalmente, por lo que fué necesario agregar 3 pilotes … Read more
- Sombreadero Colegio Albert Schweitzer v1.0
La Escuela Albert Schweitzer en la comuna de Puente Alto está dirigida a la educación de niños en riesgo social en el área específica de la reinserción escolar, siendo una de las escasas cinco escuelas dedicadas a este programa en Santiago. La infraestructura se ha edificado en tres etapas desde 2003 en un terreno entregado … Read more
- Navy & Marine Museum
CREDITS Architects: Roberto Benavente, Gabriel Rudolphy, Alejandro Soffia Location: Vaparaíso, Chile Client: Chilean Navy Team: Javier Arango (Restoration), Ramón Castillo & Leonor Castañeda (Storyboard), José de Nordenflycht (History), Fernando Sarce (Thermodynamics), José Sagredo (Drawings) : Budget: Reserved Constructed Area: 5400 sqm Project year: 2009 More than 5.000 kilometers of coast and almost 500 years … Read more
- SIP Prefabricated House 3
Following a long research (since 2002) on prefabrication in low cost housing and self customization, we decided to step aside in designing new components and create a constructive system from low developed components available in the construction market. So we took “structural insulated panel” (SIP) catalogue and read its simple topology to define minimum spatial … Read more
- UNAB Infraestructure Master Plan
CREDITS Architects: Master Plan Team. Felipe Assadi, Elke Shclack, Alberto Ramírez, Francisca Correa, Alejandro Soffia Team: Francisco Merino, Rodrigo Vicuña, Anita Yanine, Josefina Guiloff, Carlos Ivovic Location: Santiago, Chile Client: Universidad Andrés Bello Budget: – Constructed Area: 10000 sqm Project year: 2008
- GABY Mine’s opening
CREDITS Architects: MAA Arquitectos + Alejandro Soffia Location: Sierra Gorda, Atacama Desert, Chile Client: CODELCO Budget: – Constructed Area: Variable Project year: 2008
- Plaza de la Justicia
Historic Transformation CREDITS Architects: UNO Proyectos (Gonzalo Martínez, José Bustos). Asociates: Roberto Benavente, Gabriel Rudolphy, Alejandro Soffia Location: Santiago, Chile Client: Justice Ministry Budget: – Constructed Area: 330 sqm Project year: 2008
- Solar prefabricated system
CREDITS Designers: Alvaro Vega, Ignacio Moyano Professor: Alejandro Soffia Location: 9 Public spaces of Santiago, Chile Client: Universidad Andrés Bello, Final Career Project Budget: U$300/sqm Constructed Area: Variable Project year: 2007 PRESS La casa de cobre que ahorra energía Universidad Andrés Bello brilla en primer concurso de Tesis en Eficiencia Energética
- Enrique Molina Lyceum’s Theater
Many cultural infraestructure projects fail due to real state concerns. One more time cultural development surrender under “economic” development. The long extension of the Lyceum’s site makes up for the possibility to restorate in low density an old theater thats located in an important public space. In a closer scale, the increased mission of the … Read more
- ESCONDIDA’s Mine Opening
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- SIP Prefabricated House 2
In the SIP prefabricated house series, this is the first model of house done with an basic notion of an spatial module. Common flat roof problems is resolved through an on site process of recovering the SIP panel with elastomeric membrane. Although this process seems to be out of a total prefabricated system, the many … Read more
- SIP Prefabricated House 1
Due to the failed development of MN System 3.0 -the first version of a modular coordinated MN 2.0 System for a builded project- we decided to maintain the association logic of the system, but change the constructive components from an own made product to industrial catalogue panels. In that moment was arriving to Chilean industry … Read more
- Emergency cardoboard living box
Architects: URO1.ORG (Alejandro Soffia, Gabriel Rudolphy, Fernando Portal, Arturo Torres, Nicolás Rebolledo) Location: Non site Client: Living box Competition Team: Oral Gotkas, Sevince Bayrak Budget: – Constructed Area: Variable Project year: 2005 ARGUMENT 1 Why a living box? What for? The contest starts with the hypothesis that, “fast transformations and incessant social-cultural flows of contemporary … Read more
- MN System v2.0
“Most Chilean dwellings are single family houses. Faced with this fact, this strategy seeks to improve upon current housing production mainly in two aspects: efficiency (more space for the same budget) and adaptability (ample choice of emplacement and varied possibilities of distribution).Technical and formal themes had been already pursued in a realized prototype where the … Read more
