Vespucio Córdova Building / Ramón Coz + Benjamín Ortiz + Renato Jiménez

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• Architects: Ramón Coz + Benjamín Ortiz, Renato Jiménez
• Location: Américo Vespucio Nte 1090, Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile
• Area: 12480.0 m2
• Project Year: 2013
• Photographs: Fernanda Del Villar

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Text description provided by the architects. The building is located on a land that joins two zones with different regulations and different uses. To the east, Americo Vespucio and its inter-communal park, to the west, mixed residential and commercial zone, characterized mainly by the Alonso de Córdova axis.

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First floor plan

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Given this condition and in response to this urban situation, the project proposes as a main motivation to create a public space on the pedestrian level, connecting the two areas, giving to a transforming historically residential area, a place that understands the two scales and establishes the link.

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Section 09

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Two geometric volumes displaced overlapped from each other, differentiated by their materials, a glazed body towards the Andes Cordillera and the park, and a more discreet and controlled facade to the west, define its formal proposal.

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