COURSERA: Designing Cities

Assignment #2
Three Special Places

Location: Santiago, Regin Metropolitana, Chile, South Amrica

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Centro Cultural
Gabriela Mistral

Street and Pedestrian

Street Orrego luco

[ A Street]

[A Public Space ]
Santiago _Carolina Pantoja

Nueva Las
Condes

[A District]

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Assignment #2
Three Special Places

Place

Calle Orrego luco , Providencia

[A Street]

Night live, happy hours favorite

reason to visit

Orrego Luco is a street and in front of it is an Orrego Luco

pedestrian street Paseo Orregoluco.
First was born as a nightly destination because of the great
connectivity (Metro station, Taxi, Car) safe environment and
happy hours famous places
Now it is a food destination for tourist, locals and Office workers
from around because of the influx of restaurants . The
restaurants take over all the sidewalk to cite his tables and the
whole street become a big open terrace whit variety of food and
drinks surrounded by beautiful buildings and a part of the car's
nose.
The street has an identity and the regulation plan keep it that
way with restriction of high and the preservation of historical
properties. Its preserves and active the historic preservation
area with service to locals and tourist visitors.
It is activated in every moment, from day to night and weekends
are for design exhibitions that keeps the commercial
destination.
It an stable location because the space is limited and is full of
restaurants.

http://www.thisischile.cl/2010/06/de-carrete-porsantiago/

The occupation of the

sidewalk creates a big terrace
with a variety of food choices

http://www.vistelacalle.com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/05/1367612094_panoramica_orre
go_luco-900x575.jpg

Sundays its the day for design

exhibitions to locals and tourist

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Assignment #2
Three Special Places

Place
[A Street]

Calle Orregoluco , Providencia

Context Descomposition
Historic preservation area
Historic preservation
property

Pedestrian only

Edifation conitiuous,
Max 3 floors

Edifation conitiuous,
Max 3 floors and isolated
free

For the understanding of the

street the context shows what's
going on that creates the
attraction for this street and
how the regulation plan keeps
the identity of the historical
buildings and reinforce the
tourist attraction with gourmet
restaurants and the activation
of the area with commercial
stores to generate flow.

Free editication

Comercial use
Residential and restricted
comercial use
Residential and
restricted
equipment

Santiago _Carolina Pantoja

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Assignment #2
Three Special Places

Place

Calle Orregoluco , Providencia

Santiago _Carolina Pantoja

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Assignment #2
Three Special Places

Place

Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral

Cerro
Santa
Lucia

[ A Public Space]
Forestal Park

GAM

Avenida Alameda
Fuente : http://es.slideshare.net/javiervp/centro-cultural-gabriela-mistral-proyecto-destacado-enrique-bares

Historic
preservation
area

Typical area

Special
areas

Historical
monuments

Historic
preservation
property

Centro Cultural GAM is a cultural center named by the famous poet

Gabriela Mistral.
Located in the Center of the city, surrounded by historical buildings,
typical areas , Historical monuments and in the main street of Santiago
Avenida Alameda - next to a Metro Station is a Great Place and
Cultural destination for showing national and international art scenes,
conferences, concerts and theatre performance . Also the building has
a cafeteria.restaurant and library. The open areas of the building give
space for handmade craft exhibitions ,healthy food seller and public
social meetings.
It is a restored iconic building in the city and was made from a public
competition for his architectural proposal to renovate the old building
and give new facilities for culture and recreation to the city.

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Assignment #2
Three Special Places

Place
[ A Public Space]

Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral

New Plazas for public recreation

and events

A Restored building for the city

Original building and
relation with street

New building openes

relation to street and
neighborhood

Fuente
http://es.wikiarquitectura.com/index.
php/Centro_Cultural_Gabriela_Mistra
l

Historic
preservatio
n property

The building has more than 22000 mt2 and has an important
political history. First was conceived by Communist president
Allende for social purposes and after the dictatorship of
Pinochet takes place it was adapted for government proposal
and was a closed building.
After a big fire the president Michelle call for a public
competition to remake the building and that's how the
cultural center Gabriela mistral reprises his vocation and
become the most important referent for cultural activities in
the city.
The project was basically working with the existing
infrastructure and under the roof it articulates new public
spaces between the 3 sections of the new building.
The building its open to the community by the incorporation
of community program and the legimitation of the projects
gets through incorporation of social agents

Original and moficated roof

with loose volumes under it
that articulate a set of new
public spaces

Fuente
http://es.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Centro_Cultur
al_Gabriela_Mistral

New Plazas for public recration,

exhibitions,meetings,events and more

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Assignment #2
Three Special Places

Place

[A District]

Nueva Las Condes

Mall Center
ParqueArauco
Park Araucano

Nueva Las Condes and

office buildings

Nueva Las Condes

MasterPlan

Nueva Las Condes is a new office

building area develop by private real
estate for office buildings that
include a commercial Boulevar ,
different food service and cafeterias
between the buildings.
The area gets a complete different
look, modern with high rise buildings
covered in glass with open space
between them , and that's what
makes this place special, the open
space is given to the trespassing of
pedestrian and generates social
meeting from the office workers of
the tower and the surrounding areas
with service to activate the area.
Also the sideways gets improvement
with sitting equipment , gardens and
light at night to secure walk

Fuente http://www.nuevalascondes.cl

Management rises from 2 real estate venture to develop a set of office buildings against the Araucanian
Park. 2 Architecture office works together to generate a global idea and create the buildings in a
Masterplan with a pedestrian boulevard as a principal target.
With the pedestrian boulevard in mind the site the buildings that define the limits of the big open inside
a space.
For the definition of access, plazas and commercial central space they study the paths, pauses and
service location.
The Masterplan has a landscape design by Teresa Leyton and new buildings has been incorporated into
it. The new architect's office in charge project normatively with the original architects respecting the
matrix idea of the pedestrian boulevard

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Assignment #2
Three Special Places

Place

[A District]

Nueva Las Condes

The buildings generate an

open facade in the first
floor, growing the sidewalk
and given green views with
green walls and gardens to
the public space

The modern buildings left a

big open foyer to give the
perception of more space.
The floor is modelled to give
pedestrian walks with steps
and plazas with water to
make a nice trespassing side
to side

Fuente maps.google.cl

Restaurants and cafeterias

are located between the
buildings to serve the office
workers and the locals with
variety of options and views
to the plazas and water falls.

The buildings give to the

sideway green areas,
instead of enclosure d the
sites. Also the give light at
night to make a more
secure walk.
Fuente
http://www.nuevalascondes.cl

Santiago _Carolina Pantoja