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Boulevard Ñuñoa Square

Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco

BOULEVARD ÑUÑOA SQUARE

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ARCHITECTS
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AREA
11345 m²

LOCATION
Santiago, Chile

CATEGORY
Commercial Architecture

YEAR
2012

PHOTOGRAPHS
Pablo Blanco

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The urban proposal tends to preserve the consistent surrounding site image, rescuing own site activities and giving meaning to a new way of inhabiting the city and public spaces , linking the surface with the underground floor in a "vertical relationship".

Integrating commercial and cultural borders allows both pedestrians and vehicles coexist in an harmonius public space, having the existing Town Hall building surrounded both by “Plaza Ñuñoa” and “Boulevard 19 de Abril” as a new place.

Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco
Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco

Jorge Washington Street, from 19 de Abril to Irarrázaval, and from Irarrázaval to Dublé Almeyda, is incorporated to the Project, both tracks and walkways. 19 de Abril Street is incorporated the same way, too.

RECOVERING PUBLIC SPACE

The Underground Plaza is finally the most important element of the project, source of permanent day and night service and tourism activities that enhances and renews the site.

Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco
Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco

A new public space has been created in a new underground level, and old parking área is recovered for the city, incorporating the new building without affecting the civic space. Two necessary activities remains now in two different levels.

ZONIFICATION

The building is developed in four underground levels, first of them for a Restaurants Boulevard and the rest of them for underground parking with 305 places.

Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco
Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco

The Underground Plaza connects with the Surface by open stairs, favoring free acces for the public. Underground parkings can be reached from this level too by inner stairs and elevators.

Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco
Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco

STRUCTURE

Traditional reinforced concrete structure was considered, based on walls and pillars, where slabs acts as rigid diaphragms, allowing mínimum intermediate pillaring.

The structure was designed with no beams, providing open internal spaces and a lower height between levels, favoring ramps development.

Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
© Pablo Blanco


Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
Cross Section
Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
Longitudinal Section


Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
Diagram 1
Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
Diagram 2


Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
Site Plan
Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
Parking Floor Plan
Boulevard Ñuñoa Square
Underground Commercial Floor Plan

Plan Arquitectos
Plan Arquitectos
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