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Alma Hotel proposal / LAN Architecture

Jan 2012

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Hotels and Restaurants , Atacama, Chile, LAN Architecture

The hotel project by LAN Architecture rapidly became a small city project, a human settlement in which habitat, commerce, education, politics, and culture are combined. To achieve their objective, they set a strategy where each component of the project plays an essential role in the definition of the whole: rooms become a roof, roof is a plaza, the plaza a window, the window a façade, the façade a landscape, etc. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

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Alma Hotel Residence / Coz Polidura Volante Arquitectos

Jan 2012

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Hotels and Restaurants , Atacama, Chile, Coz Polidura Volante Arquitectos

Courtesy of Coz Polidura Volante Arquitectos

This is the second finalist of the international competition for the Alma Hotel Residence for ESO. The competition was won by Kouvo & Partanen.

The main idea of the proposal for the Alma Hotel Residence by Coz Polidura Volante Architects takes us back to archaic structural typologies inherent to the Atacama culture, easily distinguishable in areas like Turi ruins, Lasana or Pucara de Quitor in San Pedro de Atacama. The layout of the building takes advantage of the program modules of rooms, repeating this form of modular design of fullness and emptiness, which means an operation sensible to light and shadow, as occurs at the site between streams and mountains. More images and architects’ description after the break.

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Alma Hotel Residence Winning Proposal / Kouvo & Partanen

Jan 2012

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Hotels and Restaurants , Atacama, Chile, Kouvo & Partanen

view towards main building

Kouvo & Partanen was recently announced as the winners of design competition for the Alma Hotel Residence in the Atacama Observatory and Research Center in the desert of northern Chile. The aim of the competition was to find the best solution on a fixed design fee and construction price for the building that offers the astronomers, engineers, and other staff working at the observatory accommodation, restaurant and office services and recreational spaces. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »