ENRIQUE BROWNIE

Enrique Browne

“La identidad es pues la simbiosis entre el espíritu de la época con el espíritu del lugar”.

Earned his Architect (1965) and Master of Urban Planning (1968) degrees, both with "maximum distinction," from the Universidad Católica de Chile. Further advanced studies in U.S.A., England and Japan.

In the next years, Browne established himself as one of the foremost architects in the world, celebrated for an aesthetic that weds architectural tradition with designs that are ecologically minded and energy conserving.

Author of 3 books about architecture and urbanism, plus 6 in collaboration with other authors. Among the first “Other Architecture in Latin America” (G. Gili Editors, México 1988). He has also written 60 essays about these subjects in International magazines. His works have been the centerpiece of 3 monographs.

Zapallar House Zapallar, Chile

The floor plan of this house resembles a branch of pine or aucaliptus. This green house cheers up the house and includes ramps that unite the levels. The garden is heated from the above and by the windows towards the north, generating a “greenhose effect� that warms the house.

The passive thermal system makes the house to hardly need artificial heatng.

Consorcio Building.

Santiago, Chile

The building was divides vertically, leaving the lower floor for rental. The treatment of the facades deserves special attention. A western facade in santiago produces serious heating during summer. Therefore, the building was adapted with natural and technical resources, producing a double facade: an inner with courtain wall and an outer with vegetation wich reduces the solar absorption. Metaphorically the green rises vertically.

Pedestrian Bridge.

Zapallar, Chile.

The bridge was proyecte in laminated wood and its simply supported in concrete bases. Although it has the cross form of a rowboat, it corresponds to an inverted arch. A master beam in the lower part resist the inflection.

Design Poetic

Green elements as aesthetic and functional.

Unification of vernacular elements and new technology.

Water elelments.

Incorporate the building into the topography of the place. urbanism, the building as continuity of the city.

Continuity of the interiors with the surroundings.

La otra

Arquitectura

Permanent tension between: Spirit of the place- the esce.nce of the place. Spirit of the time-the context of the place in certain time.

His proposal is to adapt architecture to the place so that the buildings can have a common spirit.

Leaf House We wanted to recreat the aesthetics that browne uses, by using organic forms. In this case the piling of the leaves during the autumn.

top:render.top right: A-A`cut. Right: B-B`cut.

TeorĂ­as de la arquitectura.

DIANA ELÍZABETH CASTILLO ABDEL SIMÓN XOCHIPILTECATL