Casa Barrios Bajos . Valdivia
Pablo Ojeda . fotos: © Felipe Fontecilla . + archilovers
The regarding house was began to be build in 1960 in Valdivia city, short before the great earthquake and tsunami that devastated the zone. When that catastrophe took place, the house was in its torks celebration. On that time it was designed and thought as a house-apartment (local denomination) for working class families from the already downcast working mass of the local industry. It was meant for being a rent house. Two semi detached and symmetrical houses shared a common yard, two washing places and two woodsheds, placed in the middle of a working class neighbor, directly connected to the river shore industry in Valdivia. Continue reading Pablo Ojeda