SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos

SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, FacadeSIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, FacadeSIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Interior Photography, FacadeSIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Stairs, Beam, HandrailSIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - More Images+ 16

Quilicura, Chile
  • Architects: SML Arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  256224 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Cristóbal Palma
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Hunter Douglas
  • Lead Architects: Franco Somigli, Sebastián Mundi, Nicolás Gallo
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SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Cristóbal Palma

Text description provided by the architects. The project consisted of designing a factory to manufacture products for the mining industry with production bays and a corporate building following three main guidelines:

SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Cristóbal Palma
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Plan - 2nd floor 1:250
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Sección Longitudinal 01
SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Cristóbal Palma

1. The design should allow for modifications and expansions.
2. The chosen construction system should be a rapid and efficient construction system.
3. The project should reflect the company’s standards and principles and evoke the mining sector in the choice of materials given that this is a corporate building.

SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Facade
© Cristóbal Palma

The answer to these three guidelines was a complex that consists of three large production bays behind a main four-story building conceived of as a regular grid using a structure of prefabricated concrete columns and beams. The grid serves as the base of the various spaces, which are laid out within this structural system and organized, though with a certain level of tension, through this Cartesian order.

SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Stairs, Beam, Handrail
© Cristóbal Palma

In order to respect the geometric plasticity of the prefabricated system, rather than covering it, we left the main structural principles of the system exposed along with the columns, beams, scaffolding, and rigid concrete knots. The intermediate spaces produced between the various parts of the layout and the structure give rise to multiple spaces. Some of these are exterior terraces and others are double- and triple-height open spaces. 

SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Cristóbal Palma

These same interstices allow for the possibility of future expansion, which will always be regulated within the concrete grid, maintaining the project’s original logic. Glass, wood, Corten steel, and copper are the main materials used, and they contrast with the nudity of the concrete structure, offering transparent and cozy spaces for those who work here and evoking the raw materials used in the mining sector. The building thus tells the company’s story in a certain sense.

SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Cristóbal Palma

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Address:Quilicura, Metropolitan Region, Chile

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Cite: "SIOM Building / SML Arquitectos" [Edificio SIOM / SML Arquitectos] 08 Mar 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/977973/siom-building-sml-arquitectos> ISSN 0719-8884

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