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PORTFOLIO FRANCISCA ALLIENDE COVARRUBIAS Santiago, Chile 2021

PROJECT - THE THICKNESS OF THE BOUNDARY: university hall of interaction between the campus and the city Professors: Hugo Mondragón, Philippe Blanc Thesis and final degree project, 2018, PUC

Master plan of San Joaquin Campus’s boundary

The research deepens in the role of a university campus’s boundary and its relationship with its immediate urban context. The limit is studied in its mediating condition of parts in tension, reflecting on the character that it must acquire to ensure the institution’s objectives. The project rethinks PUC’s campus San Joaquín’s limits and proposes a university hall, the student space par excellence, as a mediator of the two worlds. A space that is conceived as a habitable limit, dense in programs that serve the university and the city as a space for interaction. 2

Moments in the prototipe, ditch in San Joaquin’s boundary

The campus’ boundary is conceived as a space in which excavation in the form of a trench intervenes. It varies in position and size along the perimeter, turning towards the sidewalk or the campus and establishing programmatic milestones in the proposed underground route.

First floor plan, San Joaquín Campus

The trench widens to form the underground program core. On the one hand, the direct accesses to the university are through bridges, while the accesses to this new underground world appear at street level as closed volumes, allowing independent operation. This allows a continuous relationship, but at the same time, a cushioning between both worlds, delaying the transfer. Within that massive volume containing the trench, the program adapts to the free space given by the buildings surrounding the programmatic nucleus. The project is attached to the San Joaquín underground stratum’s existing equipment and adds activities such as a dining room, auditorium, exhibition room, study rooms, printing press, etc. 4

Underground floor plan, San Joaquín Campus

Project mockups, San Joaquín Campus

Project axonometric, San Joaquín Campus

Project section, San Joaquín Campus

THESIS - THE THICKNESS OF THE BOUNDARY: university hall of interaction between the campus and the city Professors: Hugo Mondragón, Philippe Blanc Thesis and final degree project, 2018, PUC

Boundary in Alhambra Palace, Spain

Boundary in Ringstrasse, Viena

Boundary in Girona’s walled city, Spain

Boundary Exodus project, UK

The investigation delves into the concept of limit, no longer as a linear object but as a thickness. As the Romans already understood in their cities, the limes was a ring of land that surrounded the territory, where the soldiers of the empire who protected the city lived. It is under this definition of border space that the limit takes on a new dimension: thickness. It is the thickness that gives an architectural quality to the limit and makes it habitable. The particular case of medieval walled cities and fortifications comes close to this double function of the limit; this is mainly in the form of a wall, the most important thing within the city and its visible face. The study of the cases will make us. The boundary, like its exterior facade, must maintain this tension and exacerbate it. 7

FLOWER PATIO: public space for production that completes the composition of the Catholic Cemetery Professors: Felipe de Ferrari, Diego Grass Design workshop final project, Semester 7 2015, PUC. + María del Carmen Valdes, Javiera García.

Proposal image from de greenhouse

The project is located on a corner site belonging to the Catholic Cemetery and facing the east entrance of the General Cemetery and the Cementerios metro station. A self-sufficient flower market is proposed, a building for sale and cultivation that rearranges the existing informal stalls and frees the sidewalk. It seeks to enrich a public space with a themed square around the flowers.

Flower Patio’s project axonometric

The building follows the logic of courtyards and niches of the Catholic Cemetery, becoming the only open courtyard of the cemetery, with the character of a public square. The proposal takes the form of a habitable perimeter wall attached to the existing walls as niches. The first level is associated with the sale, the second level with the storage program, which are scarce in the area, and the third level with the production of species in a greenhouse that occupies the sunniest floor in its entirety. 9 Anillo de Infraestructuras Comunitarias

Sitio 2 - Mercado de Flores

Third floor plan

First floor plan

The perimeter wall is made up of a 3m x 3m grid replicating the niches of the Catholic Cemetery. The pre-existing heritage volume opens its façade to accommodate the pedestrian flow from Recoleta and the Metro. Both orders that of the grid and the building are superimposed by incorporating the grid inside the volume, holding the existing building, and accommodating the services of the complex and a cafe. In this way, it is intended to give rise to a public space between cemeteries, a character defined by the productive activities private exposed in the niches and that coexist around the flowers. 10

Users in the surrounding context of the cemeteries

NON STOP HUIQUE infinite colonization of Hacienda el Huique Professors: Smiljan Radic Design workshop final project, Semester 10 2016, PUC. + Agustina Poggione, Catalina Valdés.

Final image of the project “Non Stop Huique“

The Hacienda San José del Carmen de El Huique, a national monument, is located in the Tinguiririca valley. The patronal house was built in stages since 1829, growing and adapting to the family’s needs over time but permanently preserving its original plan and its configuration of patio and corridors typical of a Chilean house. The agricultural territory around it was increasingly profitable and allowed the Hacienda to supply itself. The proposal raises the utopia of a Hacienda el Huique that continues to grow spontaneously and infinitely throughout the territory as a self-sufficient city. With references to the ideologies of Non-Stop City, Archizoom, and New Babylon, the proposal seeks to value the heritage attributes of the Hacienda and its configuration of patios and corridors as a series of replicable elements that support themselves in this infinite territory grid. 12

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Infinite repetition of Hacienda el Huique’s elements

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Floor Plan Hacienda San José del Carmen de El Huique

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Interios patios, 2016

Church Tower in the frontis, 2016

ANALYSIS OF 4 CASES OF HORIZONTAL LATTICE SYSTEM: thermal and visual performance from geometry Professors: Claudio Vázquez Design workshop final project, Semester 6 2014, PUC.

Images from the workshop’s final paper

In Santiago, the solar gain of buildings with a transparent façade reaches such levels that the overheating of the rooms has a decisive effect on the user’s thermal comfort. A horizontal lattice façade system can mediate between the requirement of visibility and the blocking of direct radiation from exploring its geometry and the complex development of its surface. The designed prototype geometry is varied from a diagonal fold that divides the slat into a vertical component with an inclination of 30º and a horizontal one. The prototype seeks to block all direct radiation by arranging the interleaved slats towards the two ends. In addition, perforations are incorporated into the vertical surfaces of the slats, thus maintaining adequate visibility to the outside. With this design, whose performance was proven throughout research, you can reduce solar gain and energy demands while maintaining the user’s visual comfort, also associated with thermal comfort. 14

BOUTIQUE HOTEL IN SYROS Syros, Greece Vila & Rovira Arquitectes, 2016, Barcelona Spain. Professional internship - project development and design. + Alexandra Nicolaides, Javiera García

Location of the Boutique Hotel in Syros

General layout floor plan of the Boutique Hotel in Syros

Rooms and villa plans

SOCIALLY-INTEGRATED HOUSING BUILDING Santiago, Chile PARALELA, 2020 Architectural Designer - project development, general layout, design of green areas and common spaces

Project first floor plan

This integrated housing project is part of the DS19 decree of the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, which grants subsidies to families of medium and low sections. Located in Cerrillos in Santiago, the land faces the new park of the district. Due to its privileged location, the project has an important civic character that it seeks to take over. Thus, the volume opens towards the corner of the land to generate a commercial, public square at street level and facing the park. The complex is proposed as two high towers and a continuous 5-story low volume that occupies the perimeter to create an interior patio for successful social integration. Some sections of the lower volume have a single bay, which allows circulations to be directly related to the patio, generating visual crossings. 16

Typologies of departments

Commercial shops plans

Project image from the district’s park

Project image of the interior patio

BUZETA BUILDING Santiago, Chile PARALELA - in progress Architectural Designer - details, graphic plans, coordination.

Project image - Atmosphere for Paralela

Residential building with 275 apartments located in a sector with high demand for housing, in the district of Cerrillos Santiago. “ A pioneer in the consolidation of the new centrality around the Cerrillos Metro, the building innovatively faces the architectural challenges posed by high density, with an emphasis on activating public space and reinterpreting collective spaces. The 3 volumes of the building and the work on its facades allow its scale to be minimized, without losing its unitary character and its status as a new urban landmark.” (PARALELA,2021) 18

Graphic plans - 1º floor

Graphic plans - 5º floor, common spaces

Graphic plans - 17º floor, common spaces

Kitchen details plans

SAN ANDRES BUILDING Santiago, Chile PARALELA - in progress Architectural Designer - project development, coordination of engineering projects, details design.

Project image - Atmosphere for Paralela

“Located inside the Buzeta neighborhood, a few blocks from the Cerrillos Metro, the high-density project (228 apartments) is conceived as a simple volume, whose facade work based on a regular grid and alternating balconies gives it a civic character that It differs from the traditional real estate offer and at the same time minimizes its scale. The innovative work of the common spaces on the first and last floors stands out, taking advantage of the spectacular unobstructed views of the city, especially towards the Portal Bicentenario Park” (PARALELA,2021) 20

TERRAZA 0.95 x 5.95m

TERRAZA 0.90 x 5.35m

BAÑO 2.05 x 1.20m

COCINA 2.65 x 1.75m

ESTAR FAMILIAR 2.65 x 3.15m ESTAR FAMILIAR 2.95 x 2.55m DORMITORIO PRINCIPAL 2.80 x 2.65m

DORMITORIO PRINCIPAL 2.90 x 2.65m DORMITORIO ESTUDIO 3.00 x 3.15m

HOME OFFICE 1.40 x 1.25m

TIPOLOGIA 2

TIPOLOGIA 3

PISOS 2 AL 15

COCINA 2.95 x 3.15m

BAÑO 2.15 x 1.25m

COCINA 2.65 x 2.55m

BAÑO 2.05 x 1.25m

TIPOLOGIA 5

PISOS 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 Y 14

PISOS 2 AL 15

TERRAZA 0.90 x 2.25m

TERRAZA 0.90 x 5.85m TERRAZA 0.95 x 5.55m

TERRAZA 0.90 x 7.05m

DORMITORIO 2.05 x 2.40m

ESTAR FAMILIAR 2.80 x 2.80m

DORMITORIO PRINCIPAL 3.10 x 2.70m

DORMITORIO PRINCIPAL 2.80 x 2.65m

DORMITORIO 2.40 x 1.55m

ESTAR FAMILIAR 3.10 x 2.55m TERRAZA 6.40 x 0.90m

BAÑO 1.45 x 1.40m

HOME OFFICE 1.10 x 1.55m COMEDOR 2.85 x 2.45m BAÑO 2.05 x 1.25m

COCINA 2.50 x 2.20m

ESTAR FAMILIAR 2.55 x 3.20m

BAÑO 2.05 x 1.25m

TIPOLOGIA 6 PISOS 2 AL 4

COCINA 1.35 x 2.30m

TIPOLOGIA 7

COCINA 3.15 x 2.60m

TIPOLOGIA 8

PISOS 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 Y 14

Project typologies floor plans

Janitor cabinet design, plans and project image

April, 2021 Santiago de Chile @2021, Francisca Alliende Covarrubias