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Mampara Building / RR & PZ

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:47:00 +0000

This project addresses the transformation and adaptation of spaces linked to memory, which the passage of time leads us to reinterpret. The site originally housed a dwelling that was accessed through a mampara: a preceding space that offered an intimate moment of transition and pause, an intermediate condition connecting a before and an after, between being seen and allowing oneself to be seen.

3D-Printed Cabin / Universidad del Bío-Bío

Valeria Silva — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

First 3D-Printed Construction in Chile. The University of Bío-Bío, on its Concepción Campus, has completed the first 3D-printed construction carried out in Chile and the southern cone of Latin America. Raising a small surveillance cabin, which tests the new additive manufacturing technology that promises to revolutionize construction, and demonstrates the advances of the UBB in this technological development. By creating a mixture optimized for printing with local materials and creating construction elements with an industrial robot, which now expands its reach with a large-format printer that allows for complete houses.

INES Innovation Center / Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Clara Ott — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 07:00:00 +0000

We were told that when resources are scarce, intensity compensates for high performance (because there seems to be a deep gap between ingeniousness and intelligence). Of course, we knew that any project is a reaction to its circumstances.

Azócar Catrón: "It's Not the Scale of the Project, But Rather the Scale of the Landscape"

Fabian Dejtiar — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Chilean architects Ricardo Azócar and Carolina Catrón founded their architectural and urban planning firm in Concepción, Chile in 2015. In a short time afterward, their project “Two Towers and a Trail” was awarded the Obra Revelación del CA-CCP Prize in 2016 and was recognized in the Young Architects of Latin America Collateral Event at the Bienal of Venice in 2018; their monographic text “Catalejo” won first place out of the Publications category at the 2018 Biennale of Costa Rica. In November 2020, ArchDaily recognized them among the best emerging architectural practices of the year.

De la Palmera House / Prado Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000

This house is conceived from the commission of a couple with two children, in a 596.8 m2 site located in a consolidated residential sector in Pedro de Valdivia, Concepción. The family considered the demolition of the existing house and the preservation of the vegetation, particularly a 7m high palm tree, located at the centre, that went on to determine the project of the house in the site. This was developed particularly from two volumes of one and two levels, set back from the street that configured a more hermetic façade towards the public space, providing privacy, and simultaneously a greater openness towards the interior and familiar activities.

Casa Villuco / DX Arquitectos

Rayen Sagredo — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Villuco House is a remodeling and expansion project of a house located in the road to Chiguayante, Concepción, VIII region. It is located on the slope of the hill and enhances the views of the Bio-Bio river on its south bank.

Hall Cafe / República Portátil

Valentina Villa — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:00:00 +0000

Hall Cafeteria
The School of Architecture of the University of Biobio, located in Concepción, was founded in 1969. This School is a community of approximately 500 people and its infrastructure has workshops exclusively to work in, and a double height central space for meetings known as "Hall del Pilar" (hall of the column). This space is a witness of assembly's, parties, expositions and has always been the heart of the school. In the year 2006 the building was remodeled and due to the changes the cafeteria hall lost its character, turning into an ambiguous space that ended up disappearing in 2015 leaving a unoccupied place that left the heart of the school empty of its activities.

CCP Pavilion / República Portátil

Daniela Cardenas — Mon, 16 May 2016 13:00:00 +0000

It is a transportable building made of wood and located on Independence Square in the city of Concepcion, Chile. Commissioned by the development corporation CORFO Chile, it involves creating a pavilion that can accommodate activities and exhibitions related to the productive and creative sector of the city. Taking into account that this is an emerging sector and one of its main problems is the lack of connection between them, we propose a space able to gather, receive and visualize this meeting in a high concurrency urban place. Having completed its period allotted in the public space, the pavilion will be dismounted and transported to the Concepcion Municipal Center of creation and collaborative work C3, for other program activities and use of this space.

STV Building / Cristián Berríos

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:00:20 +0000

“Reinforced concrete does not grow like wood, is not rolled like steel sections, is not jointed like masonry. It is more comparable with cast iron, another material cast in moulds, in which through long experience shapes have been developed which lead easily and gently from one constructive element to the next without any shock or sudden break. It is the overall view which, integrating the parts into the whole, conditions these lovely shapes.” (Robert Maillart, 1938)

Guna House / Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Hemmed in between a steeply sloping hillside and a wood of eucalyptus trees, the narrow plot of land compels one to cross the garden to arrive, descending, at the small bay of a lagoon. Overlooking the landscape, a monolithic prism of concrete attempts to articulate the contradictions of the topography with a square top floor measuring 20m on each side balanced on top of a compact bottom floor measuring 8.5m on each side.

Cien House / Pezo von Ellrichshausen

David Basulto [tricky] — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

From the number of steps on the path up the hill, the height of an old cypress reminiscent those described by Pater, to the precise dimension that sets the podium a whole number above sea level, serve as decisive matches to explain the format of its silhouette. But the reasons that model a house are always others, always the same ones.

Bio Bio University Library / Rubén Muñoz + Rodrigo Villalobos

Alejandro Concha — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Last year we showed this project during its construction, now we present it completed.

Concepción House / elton+léniz arquitectos asociados

Sebastian J — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Casa Concepción is located in a community over a hill with a spectacular view towards the Bio-Bio river.

Pael House / Pezo von Ellrichshausen

Nico Saieh — Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

We decided to test the archetypical features of the suburban house. This exercise was never as explicit as the conciliation required by the formalities of the case: a suburban dwelling in a neighborhood of detached houses. As the rest of the residences, this was a big house in a plot too small for such a size; a house that had to look like one (for the sake of the neighbors mental peace); a house made of “material” (a local expression referring to the unquestioned solidity of concrete constructions) that would never age (for the peace of mind of the owners).

Consorcio Building Concepcion / Enrique Browne

Nico Saieh — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The rainy city of Concepción, is located in the mouth of the Bío-Bío River, 520 Km south of Santiago. It has aprox. 220.000 inhabitants, but its threshold spans reaches some 630.000 people. The highlights of its economy are the elaboration of steel and the wood industry, both on wide exporting booms. We were asked to design a branch of the ‘Consorcio Nacional de Seguros', National Insurance Consortium, in a corner site, in front of the only historic and antique church in Concepción, whose façade had been unfortunately reconstructed after an earthquake. Furthermore, it had a front fenced square that impoverished its quality and public character.