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There are programs that, due to their own nature, push buildings forward. A school of architecture, for instance, should not only fulfill its function but also embody the ideas discussed within, allow for new possibilities and serve as a model. In other words, it should transform itself into a demonstrative and pedagogical instrument. This structure makes the possibilities of building in wood clear, showing, with didactic clarity, the way in which it resists the vertical, horizontal and symbolic loads of an architecture school.

T he new building for the School of Architecture at the Universidad Católica de Chile – the outcome

of an open competition held in 2013 – is located on the southern edge of Lo Contador Campus neighboring the 18th-century Casona Lo Contador, currently a National Heritage Monument.

The building is a two-story laminated wood volume that rests on a rough concrete basis forming the first level. The wooden pillars and beams are modulated so as to simplify tasks of assemblage and transport; the dimensions of the floor’s boards are also optimized, without any need for cuts. The wooden structure is exposed and the building’s expression is the manifestation of how the load transference works.

The 21-meter span piece of wood suspended between supports leaves its west side cantilevered, constituting a new access atrium for the Campus.

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Escuela

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Universidad

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KeywordsBuilding

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University

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Building for the School of Architecture

Gonzalo claroProfesor Asistente AdjuntoEscuela de ArquitecturaPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile2016

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The volume houses the offices for the School of Architecture’s professors, freeing the ground floor and its rooftop to deploy the programs that support the building’s public life: a covered plaza at street level protected from the rain and an auditorium on the upper floor that, opened towards the casona and the hill, is transformed into a viewpoint over treetops.

From its origins, the building seeks to be sustainable. That is why it is designed in wood, a renewable resource with a low carbon footprint. Its dry work assembly not only allows the reduction of construction time but also diminishes the impact of construction work on the neighborhood.

Although its program is mainly for private use, it is a building that due to its strong public vocation should promote and open new possibilities for wooden structures in Chile. Its most direct users, architecture

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Planta emplazamiento Site planE. / S. 1: 5.000

Planta primer nivelGround level planE. / S. 1: 250

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Planta segundo nivel Second level planE. / S. 1: 250

Planta tercer nivel Third level planE. / S. 1: 250

Planta cuarto nivelFourth level planE. / S. 1: 250

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Elevación poniente West elevationE. / S. 1: 250

Axonométrica de partes Parts axonometricS. E. / N. S.

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Elevación sur South elevationE. / S. 1: 250

Axonométrica AxonometricS. E. / N. S.

Edificio EscuEla dE arquitEctura Building for the School of Architecture

Arquitecto / Architect: Gonzalo Claro RiescoArquitecto asociado / Associate: Pablo LevineColaboradores / Collaborators: Rafaela Behrens, Sarah KutzUbicación / Location: El Comendador 1936, Santiago de Chile, ChileCliente / Client: Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileCálculo estructural / Structural engineering: Juan AcevedoConstrucción / Construction: GHG S.A .Instalación sanitaria / Mechanical engineering: Ruz Vukasovic y Cia Ltda.Instalación eléctrica / Electrical system: Ingelmor Ltda.Iluminación / Lighting: Paulina SirPaisajismo / Landscape: Paulina Courard

Eficiencia energética / Environmental project: Javier del RíoMateriales / Materials: mle Madera Laminada Encolada / Glued laminated woodTerminaciones / Finishings: mle, gres porcelánico, mosaico de vidrio/ Glued laminated wood, porcelain stoneware, glass mosaic tilePresupuesto / Cost: uS$ 1.600 / m2Superficie construida / Built area: 1.500 m2Superficie de terreno / Site area: 700 m2Año de proyecto / Project year: 2015 Año de construcción / Construction year: 2016Fotografías / Photographs: Felipe Fontecilla

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1. Revestimiento exterior y cubierta en mosaico

2. Membrana miel 3 capas + fibra terminación cuarzo

3. Contrachapado 15 mm

4. Aislación de poliestireno expandido 100 mm

5. Contrachapado 12 mm

6. Lana mineral rollo de 50 mm

7. Viga de techo mlA 65 × 330 cm

8. Pletina según cálculo

9. Estructura de madera laminada

10. Cristal incoloro laminado según norma

11. Revestimiento de terciado mueblería

12. Tela tipo velo negra

13. Aislador acústico e= 27 mm

14. Revestimiento de terciado mueblería

15. Tela tipo velo negra

16. Aislador acústico e= 27 mm

17. Tablero oSb 18 mm

18. Jambas mlA 65 × 135 mm

19. Lana mineral rollo de 50 mm

20. oSb 12 mm + fibrocemento 6 mm

21. Fieltro asfáltico 10 lb

22. Revestimiento exterior en mosaico

23. Guardapolvo de mdfpintado al duco 70 × 10 mm

24. Solera mlA 135 × 185 mm


26. Aislación termoacústicalana mineral 50 mm

27. Cantería cortagotera 15 × 15 mm



30. oSb 12 mm + fibrocemento 6 mm


32. Revestimiento exterior en mosaico

33. Cielo de terciado mueblería 18 mm

34. Ventana de aluminio

35. Baranda según detalle

36. Porcelanato flotante 20 mm espesor

37. Plots sobrepuestos regulables

38. Membrana miel 3 capas + fibra terminación cuarzo

39. Planchas de oSb 18 mm traslapadas

40. Cercha de techumbre

41. Aislación aislapol planchas de 30 kg/mt3capas de 100 mm


43. 2 placas de contrachapado 15 mm

44. Lamina aislante según calculo


46. Porcelanato1200 × 600 mm, e= 20 mm

47. Doble perfil canal de 400 × 25 × 3 mm

48. Mortero hidrófugo

49. Pletina de acero 3 mm

50. Cara superior de viga con pendiente 1 % de fábrica

51. Estructura perimetral madera mle

52. Vigas perímetro mle400 × 85 mm

53. Vigas secundarias perimetral mle 400 × 110 mm

54. Subestructura de soporte ventanas fijados a costaneras

55. Vigas perímetro mle450 × 85 mm


57. Papel fieltro asfáltico liso 10/16 tensado a bastidor

58. Cielo de terciado mueblería


60. Aislación acústica lanamineral 50 mm

61. Costaneras mc 2 × 6"



64. Vigas secundarias mle400 × 110 mm

65. Aislación poliuretano dealta densidad

66. Mueble en obra

67. Libreros según detalle

68. Tablero oSb 18 mm

69. Revestimiento exterior de madera laminada

70. Lana mineral rígida, panel libre


72. Pies derecho de pino ml 2 × 3"

73. Solera inferior antepecho pino ml 2 × 4"

74. Cara superior de viga


76. Fijaciones inferiores / laterales cortinas exteriores

77. Cortina vertical

78. Subestructura de soporte ventanas

79. Vigas perimetro mle450 × 85 mm



82. Ventana de aluminio cristal termopanel

83. Aislación acústica lanamineral 50 mm

84. Costaneras mc 2 × 6"

85. Proyección viga principal mle 600 × 185 mm



88. Guardapolvo de mdf

89. Porcelanato600 × 300 mm, e= 20 mm

90. 2 placas de contrachapado 15 mm + lámina

91. Aislante según cálculo

92. Fijaciones inferiores / laterales cortinas exteriores

93. Cara superior de viga con pendiente 1 % de fábrica




97. Proyección viga principal mle 600 × 185 mm

98. Subestructura de soporte ventanas


100. Alfeizar mortero de pega 2 % pendiente + porcelanato 10 mm

101. Antepecho altura variable acceso vehicular

102. Despiche equipo de clima

103. Tep primer + polietileno + geotex 2

104. Adoquines existentes 100 × 100 mm

105. Ripio compactado según mecánica de suelo

106. Antepecho de hormigón visto según cálculo, moldaje de tablas

107. Escalerilla eléctrica y datos

108. Revestimiento térmico sistema poligyp

109. Rejilla de clima de acero

110. Ductos de clima

111. Mueble en obra

112. Equipo de clima

113. Rejilla de clima de acero

114. Guardapolvo de mdf

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students, will be able to interact with a wooden building from the beginning of their education. At the same time, given it faces the street generating an unprecedented permeable connection between the Campus and the neighborhood, its indirect users (visitors, public to lectures, pedestrians and so on) can learn from the unexpected possibilities of wood. ARQ

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Gonzalo Claro Riesco <[email protected]>

Architect, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004. Master in Architectural Theory and History, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, 2010. In 2011 established his architectural practice based in Santiago de Chile. Has developed projects involving different programs and scales, from furniture and objects to public buildings design. In 2015 is awarded first prize in the competition for the recently inaugurated Architecture School uc building at Lo Contador campus. He is currently associate professor at the School of Architecture uc, combining studio teaching tasks with the independent professional practice.

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A knot involving a beam pole, its lower side, two diagonal braces, the framing of the floor they support and a windowsill; all built in a pale wood, whose grain is more conspicuous than its laminate. An architectural detail that is also a cultural node: it weaves structural solicitations, disciplinary discourse, manufacturing conditions and local myth. None of these determine the building yet they all spring from it with particular transparency. Through a specific use of wood – the fact that the knot is distinctly thick is not irrelevant here – we not only read material predilection but also ‘material conditions.’ Wood, a local commodity thickened to support a four-story institutional building and to resist fire, leaves us with a final image: a school in which wood was held as a flagship of idiosyncratic rationality is now supported, entirely, by wood.

A productive field turned national identity on the grounds of architectural discourse – either ‘benefitting from local conditions’ or ‘softening in cultural terms the political impact of national industry’ – makes this building an exemplary one. Such architectural stunt transpires ‘material conditions.’ The fact that in this particular case these conditions are literally material is mere coincidence. Neither better nor worse than usual, only more transparently, this building reflects – in the friction between the superficial warmness of wood and the thickness of its pieces – the weight of the conditions of production.

If none of this has to do with architecture, why then do we still witness this feat with skepticism? Did it have to be built in wood? The imperative of asking how things are and not how they could be, reduces a building to the work of an author. It is the designer’s skill, instead of the complex set of cultural relations woven in nuce in a building, the result of avoiding a materialism that questions itself about material conditions and not just about materiality. ARQ

Nudos, nodos, nueces Knots, nodes, nuts

pEdro corrEa f.Profesor Asistente AdjuntoEscuela de ArquitecturaPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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