OFMA Offices in a Vineyard

OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
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OFMA OFFICES IN A VINEYARD

MAPAA

ARCHITECTS
MAPAA

LOCATION
Pirque, Chile

AREA
330 m²

CATEGORY
Landscape Architecture, Office Buildings

DESIGN TEAM
Alessandra Delisio, Felipe Miquel

YEAR
2018

STRUCTURE
Manuel José Ruiz

CONSTRUCTION
Héctor Hernandez

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Cristián Larraín, Matías Madsen

MANUFACTURERS
Cbb ReadyMix, Vidrios Lirquen, faser ventanas, kaltemp, tecpro

Text description provided by architect.

The work is located south of the city of Santiago within the Maipo River Valley, characteristic for its wine production. Specifically on the northern slope of one foot of the hill, on a vineyard and an olive grove.

OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre
OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre

The commission consisted of developing the offices for a father and his son, which must be independent but linked through a central space, which will function as a meeting room.

In the central space, there was to be an Italian tapestry 3.6 meters high by 6 meters long. On the other hand, the project had to account for the family tradition linked to winemaking.

OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre
OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre

Program and views. The building is located perpendicular to the hillside, organizing the program through three naves, in which the offices and the meeting room are located to the north; Main access, reception, bathrooms, cellars, and kitchen to the south.

 Below these, there is secondary access and the parking area. 

To the north, there are views towards the valley and the vineyards, which are presented as long, clean, and open views.

OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre
OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
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To the south, there are views linked to the state of the foot of the hill, with short, immediate, and close views.

OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre
OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
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The tapestry and the Vaults. The presence of a large work of art in the central space of the building, conditions. The configuration of support for it, a wall, which in turn must have a distance, height, and envelope relationship that allows its correct display.

OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre
OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre
OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre

As an envelope capable of configuring the aforementioned conditions, the image of the underground cellars used to store the wine emerges.

Characteristics of the winemaking tradition of the central area, which through their brick masonry vaults resolve their shape, which is they are used as references for the project.

Literally transferring them to the surface through new materiality, concrete, thus giving rise to the idea of ​​a vault capable of covering a large span without intermediate supports, which unload the efforts on lateral supports.

OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre
OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre
OFMA Offices in a Vineyard
© pablo casals aguirre


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