London / Buenos Aires / Caracas
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SELECTED
ARCHITECTURE
URBAN
ART
PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC
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London / Buenos Aires / Caracas
ALL
SELECTED
ARCHITECTURE
URBAN
ART
PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC
ABOUT
Public Offices / Civic Building
International Competition
Santiago de Chile, 2017
Providencia City Hall is conceived as a civic building crossed by an institutional urban axis.
At this intersection, the project creates a large double-height atrium: a transitional public space that organises the entrances to the building and reveals, through the transparency of its envelope, the spatial complexity of the interior.
The programme is structured around two main voids. The first is an open-sky void that brings natural light into the building and enriches the urban atrium. The second is an interior void that crosses the work floors vertically, organising circulation and creating visual connections between different levels of public and administrative life.
Rather than a closed institutional object, the building operates as a permeable civic structure: a place where transparency, movement and public presence define the relationship between government, workers and the city.
Client: Municipalidad de Providencia
Program: Public offices
Location: Santiago de Chile
Year: 2017
Design: Karla Montauti and Leandro Crook as Associate Architects at Asnnoise
Aisenson: Rodrigo Grassi, Pablo Pschepiurca and María Hojman
Local partner: Bauer Arquitectos
Team assistance: Luciano D’Andrea, Juan Ignacio Bereilh, I-Lan Huang, Martín Faingold, Ramiro Fernández, Alexandra Arvelo, Marialice Fernández, Alessandra Cabrera de Barragán, FF de Miranda and Álvaro Manríquez Torres