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JS449 Apartment Building / Duque Motta & AA + FIA

Valeria Silva — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:00:00 +0000

The assignment consisted of the development of an apartment building for sale in a predominantly residential area of the commune of Providencia. To increase density, the regulations allow for an isolated volume of up to 12 floors without allowing housing on the first floor.

Rural School Pivadenco / Duque Motta & AA + MAPAA

Benjamin Zapico — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 03:00:00 +0000

The Pivadenco School is part of the Rural Schools of Araucanía project, an initiative of the Ministry of Education that proposed the development of 8 small schools in rural areas of this region, the poorest in Chile, with a high percentage of Mapuche population and an unresolved historical conflict that is worsening. Our offices developed four schools, two in the commune of Los Sauces and two in the commune of Melipeuco, territories with diverse communities that required schools with an intercultural approach. In these scattered rural territories, the school is the center of community life.

House Altos / Duque Motta & AA

Andreas Luco — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0000

The project is located in Chicureo, a suburb of Santiago, occupying half of a 5,000 m² lot. The assignment was to design a one-level house to facilitate mobility, which should take over the entire plot’s extension, solve an uncomfortable orientation, and respond well to the local climatic conditions The project is proposed with two displaced orthogonal volumes, one that follows the land’s perimeter lines and houses the most public programs of the house. The other one is displayed in a north-south axis containing the bedrooms.

Los Cóndores Retreat / Duque Motta & AA

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000

The commission consisted of the remodelling and the expansion of a small family retreat in Farellones, a mountain village in the Andes Mountains, next to Santiago. The architecture and landscaping of Farellones have strong influences of European mountain architecture and American modernism of the mid-nineteenth century. The building in question is a faithful reflection of this identity, both in material and formal terms, with a stone plinth of local stones that adapts to the topography of the terrain, a wooden upper structure with a large window that opens towards the view, a dominating suspended terrace and a metallic monopitch roof.

La Gloria House / Duque Motta & AA

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 04:00:00 +0000

The project is in a residential area at the foothills of Los Andes mountain range. The plot, located on the east face of a small island hill, face the Andes mountains just a few kilometers away, creating a frontal relationship and a perception of vastness, very scarce at city level. These powerful mountains presence, as well of the steep topography, where the primal conditions for the development of the project.
The house lays on the slope in two levels, the roof of the superior volume is at the same level as the street, building a spatiality that hides the body of the house and gives the public space a visual bond with the Andes. This condition its exacerbated by putting a water mirror above the roof, reflecting the distant mountains towards the access, transforming it in the principal façade of the house. In the superior level are the most public parts of the program, this volume is conceived floating breadthways of the plot, allowing that the main space of the house has a completely open view towards the landscape. This focus in the distance its balanced with a series of colored steel skylights, that bring natural lighting in the afternoons and seek to build some interiority spots in the space of the living room, dining room and kitchen.

School of Economics and Business Diego Portales University / Rafael Hevia + Rodrigo Duque Motta + Gabriela Manzi

Igor Fracalossi — Mon, 05 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The project is the result of a competition for the revision of the new Diego Portales University Huechuraba Campus masterplan, and the definition of a project for its first phase, the School of Economics and Business of the University.

Elqui Domos Astronomical Hotel / Rodrigo Duque Motta

Nico Saieh — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Elqui Domos is a small 10-year-old hotel located in the heart of Valle del Elqui, a narrow valley stretched in between the Andes Mountains.The valley is renowned for its sharp, clear skies and pleasant weather, as well as for its great potential for wine growing, astronomy, and tourism.