Sep '04 - Apr '06
First month at school in a nutshell:
I'm not on the excercising stage of my career. 4th and 5th year students get mixed around a theme, in different studios.
This year theme was the Mapocho rive, which goes across our city (Santiago, Chile). Studios by Guillermo Jullian (Le Corbusier's atelier chief) around the city gris v/s the tartan textile; Dalencon, building social housing complex with materials that can be bougth trough a catalog; S. Gray (curator of the chilean expo on Venice's Biennale 2004) with medium density housing in empty lots along the river; Fco Vergara with social housing; Sebastián Irarrazabal (AA London) with pavillions in 5 spots along the river; Pablo Allard (Harvard Master) with urban design in the upper section of the river; J.I. Lopez (one of the chosen for the chilean expo on the Biennale) with a metropolitan library in a park near the river, and J. Tuca with bridges across the river. I obviously wanted to be with Jullian or Irarrazabal, but because everyone wanted them and my priority wasn't that high”¦ so I choose Lopez and library. The park is actually very nice, since it's on a lower part of the city I tougth it was dangerous and ugly, but it's a very safe and nice place to hang, specially this first days of spring. Today i had a studio critic, im kinda slow with my library project”¦ sometimes i just cant seem to find the RIGTH way to do it, so i keep re-thinking it”¦but this weekend I should decide the main “phrase” for my building. But i have other classes that take me a lot of time: Digital Modeling and Construction, working with formZ, building a woode chair a friend designed, 1:1; basic photo, processing b/w photos, and my last urbanism class! Urbanism IV, which Is very “economic” so I don't like it that much”¦ looks like a marketing class,boooooooooooooooooring. Well this post is so dense and compressed, but I wanted to show how's my first month at school”¦later on I will review two conferences I attended this week: rafael iglesia, one brilliant argentinian architect from who I learned a LOT, and ochoalcubo (eigth^3), an elite housing project on a resort, with 8 houses from the best 8 chileans architects.
above, the main yard, library is underground, to the left the studio's building now being remodeled, to the right, the colonial house which olds offices, a few studios, library and such...
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PUC has one of the most amazing campuses I have seen. Post some pictures of the pool!
have you been on PUC? hehe, i'll post more pictures since this sping days have great lighting.... you mean the pool of the house on the back that was added to the campus?
yeah, the little one in the back!
I spent over a week last year working nearly everday at PUC on a planning study for San Joaquin. The Chileans really know how to live and work.
nice, well, i hope you got to see all the new buildings for san joaquin, by alejandro aravena and teodoro fernandez, which will be very known in the future ;)
i'll post lots of pictures of campus this week
yo! I didn't know about those new buildings! but san joaquin is very big. are they for the puc campus there? we were studying the northern industrial areas.
Are your classes in Spanish or English?
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