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Vanguardia Building – Gonzalo Mardones
Project: Edificio de Oficinas Vanguardia
Author: Gonzalo Mardones Viviani
Collaborators: Luis Morales Gatto, Gonzalo Rudolphy Brito, Gonzalo Mardones Falcone, Andrés Núñez Fuenzalida, María Jesús Mardones Falcone, Manuel Fuentes Ramos, Alberto Reeves Droguett, Claudio Quezada Fuentes, Cristián Martínez Escárate, Javier Mora Calderón, Emilio Ursic Marechau, Julio Miranda González
Location: Santiago, Chile
Plot Area: 4,631 m2
Built Area: 7,100 m2
Project Date: 2007
Finish Date: 2008
Lighting: Paulina Sir
Builders: Salfa Novatec
Engineer: Cristián Delporte
Photography: Guy Wenborne (GW), Andrés Nuñez (AN)
The main idea of this white steel box is found in the internal hall. This interior is the heart of the building. The cubic volume opens towards the corner by means of a great six storey high crack.
This void onto which all the levels balcony is open towards the west (the entrance), protected by a kind of great vertical grapevine which controls the afternoon sun. The interior space also received vertical light through a series of skylights.
So, the total space was activated by the light but also by the circulations. Each level was different with none regulate form, that produce an irregular total space that crosses in all directions adapting to the different way of the slabs.
