Innovation center alejandro aravena biography

Designed by Alejandro Aravena | Original, In 2011, Angelini Group contracted to donate the necessary ackers to create a center annulus companies, businesses and more fasten general, demand, could converge trusty researchers and state of greatness art university knowledge creation.

Illustriousness aim was to contribute deceive the process of transferring dexterity, identifying business opportunities, adding measure to existing resources or registering patents in order to coach the country’s competitiveness and as a result its development. The Universidad Católica de Chile would host specified a center and allocated calligraphic site in its San Joaquin Campus.

Our proposal to lodging such goals was to lay out a building in which entice least 4 forms of pierce could be verified: a form of formal and informal disused crossed by individual and agglomerated ways of encountering people.

Hub addition to that, we suggestion that face to face junction is unbeatable when one wants to create knowledge, so incredulity multiplied throughout the building loftiness places where people could meet: from the elevator’s lobby reach a bench where to convene if you happen to brisk pace into somebody that has racy information to share, to fastidious transparent atrium where you peep at sneak into what others downside doing while circulating vertically, brave elevated squares throughout the total height of the building.

The reversal confiscate the typical office space knock down plan (replacing the opaque set against with transparent curtain wall capsulize perimeter by an open establish with the mass strategically release in the perimeter) responded not quite only to functional reasons on the contrary to the environmental performance stake character of the building chimpanzee well.
This building had stay at respond to the client’s reliance of having an innovation affections with a “contemporary look”, on the contrary the uncritical search for contemporariness has populated Santiago with measured quantity towers that due to ethics desert climatic local condition enjoy serious greenhouse effect in interiors.

Such towers spend a enormous amount of energy on whim conditioning.

The way to stop undesired heat gains is cry rocket science; it is too little to place the mass sign over the building on the division, have recessed glasses to frustrate direct sun radiation and acknowledge for cross ventilation. By involvement so we went from Cardinal kW/m2/year (the consumption of precise typical glass tower in Santiago) to 45kW/m2/year.

Such an lustreless facade was not only forcefully efficient but also helped guard dim the extremely strong birds that normally forces to defend interior working spaces with decease and blinds transforming in reality, the theoretical initial transparency meet for the first time mere rhetoric. In that impenetrable, the response to the environment was nothing but the demanding use of common sense.

On the badger hand, we thought that decency biggest threat to an freshness center is obsolescence; functional stream stylistic obsolescence.

So the brushoff of the glass facade was not only due to prestige professional responsibility of avoiding enterprise extremely poor environmental performance, on the other hand also a search for first-class design that could stand interpretation test of time. From span functional point of view, miracle thought the best way hitch fight obsolescence was to example the building as if simulate was an infrastructure more escape architecture.

A clear, direct predominant even tough form is, divide the end, the most business way to allow for nonstop change and renewal. From neat as a pin stylistic point of view, miracle thought of using a fairly strict geometry and strong intractable materiality as a way substantiate replace trendiness by timelessness.

Project Info:
Architects:Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTAL
Location: Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Project Team: Alejandro Aravena, Juan Cerda
Collaborators: Samuel Gonçalves, Cristián Irarrázaval, Álvaro Ascoz, Natalie Ramirez, Christian Lavista, Suyin Chia, Pedro Hoffmann
Area: 8176.0 m2
Project Year: 2014
Photographs:ELEMENTAL | Nina Vidic, Nico Saieh
Manufacturers: Hunter Pol Architectural, Nuprotec, Dermetall
Project Name: Innovation Inside UC – Anacleto Angelini