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Solo Hotel . Matarraña

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The image for Solo Hotel in Matarraña, Spain, takes its shape from the remnants of a plank of hawthorn wood that was being used to make wooden pegs for one of Marcela Correa’s sculptures. This piece of wood eliminated in one fell swoop the problem of the blank sheet of paper, while allowing us to imagine a strategy to occupy the territory. The plot of land for Solo Hotel is in an unpopulated region of Matarraña in the middle of Europe. It is surrounded by low mountain chains, gray rocks, and pine groves – a wild natural landscape to European eyes. Continue reading Smiljan Radic

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Chanchera . Puerto Octay

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Chanchera belongs to that family of beautiful, small Chilean rural sheds, with wooden columns firmly buried straight into the plot, as the 120-year-old shed was slowly rotting away on the side of a country road near Osorno in southern Chile. Continue reading Smiljan Radic

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Radic . Puga . Velasco

Chile Pavilion | Expo 2020 . Dubai

Radic . Puga . Velasco . Chile Pavilion  Expo 2020 . Dubai  afasia (1)

Smiljan Radic . Cecilia Puga . Paula Velasco . + plataforma arquitectura

In 2019 we dismantled a vault made of sawn timber, built in the 1930s in Linares, Chile, using the structural system invented by Friedrich Zollinger in Merseburg, Germany, in 1918. It was 103 m long and spanned 22.5 m. The vault was reassembled in the project, which ended up winning the Public Competition for Chilean Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020. Continue reading Radic . Puga . Velasco