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Designing for Presence: When Architecture Invites Us to Stay

Daniela Andino — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Architecture is increasingly asked to do less, not more. In environments shaped by constant movement, noise, and expectation, spaces that allow people to stay, pause, and be present have become both rarer and more necessary. Many public and semi-public places are designed to keep people moving, consuming, or reacting, leaving little room for lingering, observation, or simply being without a reason.

Alpendre Installation / CESUGA School of Architecture + Erazo Pugliese

Andreas Luco — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000

"Alpendre" originates from Galician/Portuguese, derived from the Latin "appendix" (added or accessory). The Faculty of Architecture of CESUGA conducted a wood design and build workshop during the IV Xornadas Internacionais da Madeira 2024. The main goal was to promote wood as a building material in the forestry region of Galicia, Spain. The workshop focused on intervening in the environment near the University Campus: Feáns, A Coruña. This area, while transforming, maintains a strong identity, vibrant social interaction, and significant environmental and ethnographic value.

Vessel Installation / Erazo Pugliese

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Erazo Pugliese designed and built the architecture installation Vessel as the second project (2/2) selected through Færderbiennalen’s (dance and architecture festival) international open call.

Intervention on a Stone Ruin / CESUGA School of Architecture + Erazo Pugliese

Andreas Luco — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:00:00 +0000

The faculty of architecture of CESUGA completed a wood and design workshop (during the III International Conference on Timber 2023), whose main goal was to promote the use of wood as a building material in the forestry region of Galicia, Spain, through education in design and construction techniques. An intervention on the ruins of a water mill became the starting point and main objective of the workshop that took place on Senda do Rio Sisalde (The Sisalde River trail), a wide valley that runs from the Atlantic coast, through agricultural land, productive forests, and the Fraga, a protected native forest rich in biodiversity, all the way to the top of the hills. The ruin, without a roof, was found exposed and partly collapsed, as a result of erosion by wind, rain, and vegetation.

Oficina Bravo: A Guide to Coffee and Ice Cream Shops in Santiago de Chile

Fabian Dejtiar — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Sebastián Bravo leads Oficina Bravo, an architectural practice founded in Santiago de Chile that has been developing projects with a clear strategy: to contribute to the city by efficiently using architectural, economic, and constructive resources through renovation and remodeling. Among their projects are spaces that openly interact with the immediate context, including works of patrimonial, administrative, and residential value such as Casa Compañía and Zagreb Office, as well as a large series of gastronomic and commercial spaces such as Felix Café and Apolo Helados.

DSP Apartments / Studio Cáceres Lazo

Benjamin Zapico — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0000

The city of Santiago, like many other developing world capitals, is experiencing a rapid process of urban transformation. In the last 20 years, parts of the city that had been neglected for a long time have experienced a spectacular increase in real estate development and construction.

10 Innovative Cabins That Experiment With Their Materials

Lilly Cao — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:30:00 +0000

While the traditional image of the cabin is one of a rustic wooden home located far away from any trace of society, architects have been experimenting with these conventions alongside newer material and technological considerations to push the boundaries of the ‘cabin’ today. Whether it is by reimagining the aesthetics of the cabin, utilizing advanced fabrication techniques to modernize the rustic, or even reconfiguring the log cabin for the city setting, architects and designers have utterly transformed traditional cabin architecture for a more contemporary existence. Below, we consider 10 innovative cabins that achieve this transformation through experiments with different materials and construction technologies. While each explore different strategies and functions, many share similarities in their use of prefabrication systems, their dedication to sustainability, and their close attention to and optimization of specific material properties.

Fintual Headquarters Palacio Droguett / Studio Cáceres Lazo

Clara Ott — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 19:00:00 +0000

Over the last decade, Chile’s startup scene has positioned itself as one of the leaders in the region. Ambitious government programs mixed with a booming generation of young innovators have turned the small South American country into an internationally renowned hub for emergent tech entrepreneurs, reaping an important number of interesting and successful technological products. Fintual is one of those groups of entrepreneurs—founded in 2016 and live since 2018—their goal is to bridge the gap between financial investment tools and the general non-savvy public, by way of technology and a candid and straightforward strategy of communication with their clients, sprinkled with a healthy dose of humor. As of 2020, they manage funds for 47 thousand clients at more than 425 million USD—a big jump from the 7 thousand clients and 44 million the year before, which meant they needed more people on their team and eventually a bigger space.

Casona Compañía Restoration / Oficina Bravo

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Casona Compañía is the name of an intervention and renovation project for a Historical Building Preservation. The original building was built in 1912 by architect A. Ríos T. in the Yungay district, located in downtown Santiago.

Installation of Micro Greenhouses / Iván Bravo Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The series of micro-greenhouses is located at the meeting point between the countryside and the city, the furniture, and the building, production and contemplation. Between a miniature of the main production system that sustains the nutrition of the human race and a habitable enlargement of the vegetable container as a piece of design. By confronting the encounter between these two realities in an urban setting, the need to insert the vegetal world into the domestic space is manifested, going beyond the ornamental purpose or the ephemeral productive simulations.

El Gauchal House / Iván Bravo Arquitecto

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Text by Martín Rojas and translated by Blanca Valdés.This project is situated a few meters from the coast, facing the bay of Navidad in the central-southern zone of Chile. In the surroundings, a forest, typical of the transversal valleys, converges with the coast that was originally a productive beach, and is currently being developed as a holiday location. The brief responds to the needs of four different families, 14 people in total, that decided to make a second home together. Therefore, multiple and divergent preferences of the different owners are congregated in one volume, reduced to 111m².

The Beauty of Exposed Wooden Trusses

Lilly Cao — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 04:30:00 +0000

Timber trusses are wooden structural frameworks used to support roofs or other heavy structures. Fabricated from a series of triangles linked by a ridge beam and purlins, wooden trusses are structurally advantageous due to their high strength-to-weight ratios and corresponding ability to support long spans. However, these structural components can also be used for aesthetic ends, and when left exposed, can complexify, beautify, and open an interior space.

Tiny Offices: Extensions Separating Home from Workspaces

Clara Ott — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 07:30:00 +0000

Working from home comes with a flexible schedule, not to mention savings on travel costs, and you can be closer to family. But distractions can make working from home inefficient. It becomes critical to separate the spaces used for living from the ones used for working. Building an addition is, in most cases, the perfect solution.

The Sky is the Limit: 26 Projects that Take Full Advantage of Rooftop Space

María Francisca González — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:45:00 +0000

When we talk about roofs or fifth facades it is already a classic to think about green roofs. In reality, there is a wide range of uses and possibilities that materialize in different ways depending on the specific technical needs of each roof as well as the spatial and climatic possibilities of each location. The roofs can also be favourable spaces to develop structures, extensions, recreational areas and interactive spaces. It could even play a key role in the integration of a building with the landscape.

Casa Zupe / Iván Bravo Arquitectos + Bruno Giliberto

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 08:00:00 +0000

Palimpsests were manuscripts elaborated more than 1,000 years ago (VII century), which, due to economy, erased the traces of previous writings on the surface to give rise to the one that would come next.

A Guide to Santiago's Modern Architecture: 20 Projects You Need to Know About

María Francisca González & Nicolás Valencia — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 17:00:00 +0000

The modern movement was a key player in the cultural construction of Chile in the 20th century. Although the first projects came from the private sector, their urban and landscape principles were adopted by the modernizing project of the welfare state that began to be built after the social conflicts that exploded in the 1920s.

Workshop in the City / Romero Silva Arquitectos

Daniela Cardenas — Sun, 01 May 2016 08:00:00 +0000

This project explores the different possibilities and repercussions of developing a new space, which in this case is an architectural device that not only takes care of a need – a workshop for an architecture student – but also modifies the image of a space with little architectural interest: the roof of a service-bedroom.

A Home in the City / Romero Silva Arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Is it possible to remodel a house by making a typological variation of it? This is what we explore in the project, following one rule: not to alter its exterior volume, but modifying the interior and the traditional program that classically define a single-family home in the most radical way possible.