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Architects: Azócar Catrón Arquitectos
- Area: 7 m²
- Year: 2022
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Photographs:Pablo Puentes, Nicolás Becerra, Azócar Catrón
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Manufacturers: Behr
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Lead Architects: Ricardo Azócar, Carolina Catrón
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Text description provided by the architects. Mirador Confluencia is a facility that aims to enhance the historical monument Puente Confluencia, located in the Ñuble Region, southern Chile.
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Built in 1930, it is considered the longest wooden viaduct in Latin America, currently only for pedestrian use.
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The project arises after a temporary closure that affected the bridge in 2020, due to a fire and community concern for its conservation.
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The proposal consists of a tower-mirador located beside the bridge and parallel to the Ñuble River. Its goal is to become the first stage in the consolidation of a simple Site Museum that accompanies the bridge. The tower elevates 4 meters above the ground, allowing the infrastructure to be seen as a gigantic open-air museum piece.
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Formally, the Mirador is a wooden monolith with a square longitudinal section. Its sober and compact character contrasts with the rhythm and tension of the bridge's wooden structure. It becomes a slender wooden object along the road, similar to the productive infrastructure present in the Chilean countryside.
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By using a woody structure that is robust and diffusely scaled, the object becomes a part of the place, valuing the compositional and material rigor of the accompanying construction without falling into obvious mimicry.
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The mirador consists of three elements: a staircase that allows for the observation of the bridge and the surrounding landscape as a prelude to the journey; a limited space at its bottom where the history and memory of the community with the monument are synthesized; and finally, a wooden lattice that covers the structure. From the front, it is a semi-transparent screen that fades into the landscape, while from an oblique view, it appears as an opaque wooden plane that seems to be dry-painted on a natural background of changing blue tones, just like the color of the Ñuble River or the distant Andes mountains.
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