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Jordi Costa — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:51:07 +0000

Architects: Smiljan Radić Photography: Cristobal Palma Construction Period: 2010-2014 Location: Santiago de Chile, Chile

The project for this experimental arts hall proposes an emptying operation, in which the same municipal regulations that halted the building’s renovation and brought on its current disrepair are used to our advantage. The façade is the only structure that remained partially intact after the fire in 2006 and the earthquake in 2010. These disasters opened up the interior and forever erased the remains of eight houses that had occupied the site.

The project totally empties the property, reproducing the original façade until it is complete in every detail, making it a sort of friendly disguise. The city can be seen from inside through the gaps, forming part of the backdrop for some of the events. Few structural elements touch the ground on the first floor: the lift, a staircase and the support wall for mobile tiers.

The pathway for the dramatised audience hangs from a central girder and culminates on the roof-terrace, proposed for a popular circus. Everything seems to have been measured from above. The circus is the first, the most primitive and the most austere place imaginable for shows. A strange objet trouvé, far from its home, will appear above the theatre, a source of delight for the neighbourhood. The rehearsal rooms, offices and services occupy other houses in the complex, transforming the entire building as it stands into a new internally interrelated organism.

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E/C House

Jordi Costa — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:21:53 +0000

Architects: SAMI Arquitectos Photography: Paulo Catrica Construction Period: 2010-2014 Location: São Miguel Arcanjo, Portugal

A ruin was the starting point for the design of a holiday house in the island of Pico. The project came from the will to maintain a ruin and thinking of a house that would value it, a house that could be modelled to it and take advantage at the same time, offering the most diverse and complex possibilities of living than the former typology.

Since the building is approached at the level of the covering, because of the slope of the land, we designed all the covering of the project as if they were decks, allowing to be used as sitting places or for contemplation.

The house, modelled inside the walls of stone, was designed with generous openings, for light to come inside and to contemplation of the landscape. These openings are sometimes lined up, and sometimes not, with the former openings of the ruin, creating new frames and relations with the original limits of the house.

The project is a movement between a limit line, in stone, and the intervention volumes that are led by that same line, but sometimes flow independently or extend, whenever the necessity of space or of a view is needed.

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