Valparaíso upcycling market

Escalera San Augustin: Building ties in the Cerro Cordillera through co-working spaces

This work investigates the relation between domesticity and productivity in a working-class neighbourhood in Valparaiso, Chile. <br/>The aim of the project was to turn the local manufacturing productions into an economical resource, by providing co-working spaces for the local communities. <br/>

BSB VALPO (Bodega Simón Bolívar): Social, spatial, sonic interminglings

BSB Valpo is a project for the revitalization of Valparaíso’s coastline. It is a new hub for listening, dialogue, and recreation showcasing the work of local communities, artists, craftsmen and performers within a haptic landscape open to public exploration.<br/><br/>The scheme was developed through looking at the site from several aspects,...

Landscapes of Care: Weaving nature and culture through environmental care practices

Valparaiso is currently in a state of environmental abandonment that threatens the unique coexistence of rural and urban socio-spatial practices in the peri-urban areas of the city. Local practices of animal husbandry and family farming are dependent on the abundance of water in the streams and the ecosystem of sclerophyll forests. The...

The Living Landscape of Quebrada Jaime

A self-sufficient Industrial Building, that focuses on the production of 1. Adobe construction materials (mudbricks, rammed earth, la quincha panels, earth-bag technology) 2. Region specific wine (Amphorae clay fermented wine, specialised fruit wines, grappa etc...). Both crafts are synonymous with Chilean culture.<br/>The intervention initially...

A Sonic: Designing with sound acts

To listen and to make a noise, as sonic acts, formed the premise of the project. Continuing a lineage of inquiry of human conduct that is underpinned by the notion that humans engage in purposeful behaviour; the sonic act in the field of architecture questions how people behave sonically in their environments. The importance of this spatial...

The Spectacular City: Inhabiting the Boundary Zone of Valparaiso's City Centre

Reassemble the co-existence: Design of a culture community in Valparaiso

In my graduation studio, “Constructing the commons” in the context of Valparaiso, Chile, South America is the topic under the theme “Position in Practice”, in the track of Method and Analysis. Since September last year, throughout the nine months of graduation studio, I have observed, analyzed, researched, reorganized, and envisaged some aspects...