Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Gimnasio Municipal de Salamanca. Salamanca, Chile, 2016

2017; Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; Issue: 95 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4067/s0717-69962017000100118

0717-6996

Mario Carreño, Piera Sartori,

Latin American Urban Studies

Conceiving the building as a public space activator has a wide range of precedents, not only in a threshold logic - with the building's facade as a public backdrop - but rather in a contemporary fashion, where the structure frees urban land in order to expand the building's program. This project, in a small town in the north of Chile, uses this genealogy of references to deliver a new public space.