Recycling Three Heritage Houses

Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Nacho Almonacid

RECYCLING THREE HERITAGE HOUSES

Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Heike Höpfner Kromm

MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, ULMA Architectural Solutions, Eglo, CHC, Dap Ducasse, Trimble, Volcan

CLIENTS
Patagon Land Inmobiliaria

LANDSCAPE
Jacinta Maluenda

DESIGN TEAM
Pablo Moraga Sariego, Andrés Ramírez Alvarado, Herbert Müller Macías

ENGINEERING
Gerardo Fercovic. Arriostra

CONSULTANTS
Eduardo Tarud Ingeniería Sanitaria. Alberto Bernal Berk Ingeniería Eléctrica.

PHOTOGRAPHS
Nacho Almonacid

AREA
1076 m²

YEAR
2018

CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Restoration, Heritage

LOCATION
Puerto Varas, Chile

Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Nacho Almonacid
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Nacho Almonacid

Text description provided by architect.

Waiting for more than ten years to be rebuilt, remained these three dismantled houses, that where part of the main axis of the heritage area of ​​the city of Puerto Varas, in southern Chile.

Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Nacho Almonacid
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos

Considering the need to rebuild these historic houses, there was the opportunity to rethink the meaning of these properties in the current urban context and the reconversion of the programs they originally housed.

The challenge was to conserve the atmosphere that characterized these large houses for more than hundred years, giving it validity in an urban patrimonial context, in densification process.

Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Nacho Almonacid
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Nacho Almonacid

These three buildings are now implanted generating a walk inside the block, and can be toured as part of a circuit of shops, cafes and small squares on the first level and offices on the second.

Thus, the relationship of these houses with an apartment block located behind them, is articulated and a new space is offered to the city allowing the user to inhabit places that were previously denied to them.

Recycling Three Heritage Houses
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Recycling Three Heritage Houses
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The architectural actions respected the original structural lines, adapting each enclosure to the underlying grid.

Patrimonial criteria were considered, differentiating new structural elements from the original ones, as well as the maintenance of elements as a testimony of the original spatiality.

Recycling Three Heritage Houses
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Recycling Three Heritage Houses
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The project also considered the need to reuse elements of the original buildings. This process was not easy given the advanced deterioration and the loss of some components in the time they remained in storage.

As a strategy, the reuse of decorative elements and coatings was privileged in the first instance.

Recycling Three Heritage Houses
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Recycling Three Heritage Houses
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For the missing parts, replicas were made. Some structural elements were reused, mainly those that were visible.

Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos


Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos
Recycling Three Heritage Houses
© Moraga-Höpfner Arquitectos


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Level 1 House 1
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Level 2 House 1
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Level 1 House 2
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Level 2 House 2
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Level 1 House 3
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Level 2 House 3


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Elevation House 1
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Elevation House 2
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Elevation House 2
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Site Elevation


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Section House 1
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Section House 2


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