Social Community Center

Social Community Center
© Alberto Castex

SOCIAL COMMUNITY CENTER

3 Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
3 Arquitectos

LOCATION
La Serena, Chile

CATEGORY
Community Center

MANUFACTURERS
Cintac®, DVP, Grau, Indalum, Masisa, Romeral

CONSTRUCTOR
Constructora Erices y Toro Ltda.

COST
19uf/m2

AREA
613 m²

YEAR
2011

CLIENT
I. Municipalidad de La Serena + MINVU Cuarta Región, Chile.

PHOTOGRAPHS
Alberto Castex

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Ronald Segovia M.

SANITARY
Eduardo Avalos P.

TECHNICAL INSPECTION
I. Municipalidad de La Serena.

SITE AREA
Parque 18 de Septiembre, La Serena.

Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Text description provided by architect.

This projects is part of the program 'Quiero Mi Barrio' ('I Love My Neighborhood') from the MINVU, that seeks to improve the quality of life of the 200 neighborhoods with greater vulnerability and deterioration of Chile.

Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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The edge of the '17 de Septiembre' slum is physically deteriorated. It faces huge empty spaces with no defined uses, and residual areas in which small landfills and land seizures have taken place.

Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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The visible facade from the streets that surrounds the slum is formed by backyards, land seizures and residual public spaces, which degrades the presence of this neighborhood towards the city.

Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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With this project, we intended to revert this urban situation, generating a new face in the environment and in two of the main internal corridors.

Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Throughout a lookout plaza, we want to encourage the occupation and use of the public space, improve the access to the park and becoming a potential articulator of pedestrian circulation, integrating the actual activity form the neighbors as well as activities in the new places of the social center.

Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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The inner spaces need to have multiple functions and they are distributed in three main levels: teenage room, administration room and events room.

The protection and good care of the place was a main issue.Usually, this community centers are very hermetic spaces, without proper brightness.

To address these two conditions, we worked with a continuous perimeter of prefab concrete, providing protection, sifting the light and allowing proper ventilation.

Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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The chosen materials are similar to those already used in the neighborhood (tambourines, metal fences, and calamines), so it assimilates with the local language and giving priority to the proximity of the people with the project.


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Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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Social Community Center
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