"The interest in the urban condition of thirty-eight small- and medium-scale residential buildings located in the Providencia district—which form a detailed catalog of works completed between 1930 and 1970—demonstrates how significant the architectural proposals of this period were in the creation and formation of the modern city project in Santiago, Chile.
The selection and documentation of these unique pieces, situated across a wide range of locations, not only allows for a careful morphotypological approach to the development of an idea distinct from the compact model seen in the historic city center in earlier stages, but also represents interventions on the land that mark a turning point in urban growth. Here, dispersion—a mix of residential buildings with attributes of intensity and diversity—becomes an opportunity to explore a new relationship between the built interior and its surroundings, between open and built space, where architectural realization takes on the role of densifying with quality.
