Patio Alameda Building by Baixas del Rio Arquitectos in Santiago, Chile
May 27th, 2009 - Posted in Architecture Design
Patio Alameda Building was designed by Baixas del Rio Arquitectos that located in Santiago, Chile. This Building is the first stage of an ensemble of buildings belonging to the Universidad Católica called “Patio Alameda “, which is part of the Central Campus of the university placed on the Alameda Avenue in Santiago’s downtown. Alameda is the city’s main avenue and runs East – West. This group of buildings was designed to form a “fourth patio” related to the three patio traditional building of the university.
The fourth level of this fourth patio matches the level of the main floor of the old building. Due to the natural slope of Santiago, such level is 4 meters over Lira Street (that runs North – South between the old and new buildings) and allows, through a pedestrian bridge over the street, to connect the four patios. The level difference between the fourth patio’s floor and the Alameda Avenue is solved by an ample stairway that expresses a new attitude of the university, one of openness to the city.
Thus, a significant public space is obtained, connected to the existing corridors of the old buildings cloisters, producing a new entrance to the Cultural Centre of the university placed on the west patio of the old building.
Architect: Baixas y Del Río Arquitectos Asociados – Enrique del Río Ojeda y Juan Ignacio Baixas Figueras
Location: Santiago, Chile
Collaborators: Pablo Bascur, Felipe Dell Orto, Nicolás Del Río, Vivian Klein y Manuel Sánchez
Client: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Digital Model: Felipe Ramírez
Contractor: Mena y Ovalle
Structure Engineer: Sergio Contreras
Technical Inspection: DECON UC
Lighting: Paulina Sir
Site area: 5,000 sqm
Constructed Area: 25,000 sqm
Project year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Juan Ignacio Baixas
