57STUDIO Arquitectos, Ltda.

E2E Offices

E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe

E2E Offices 

57STUDIO

ARCHITECTS
57studio

DESIGN TEAM
Reto Züger, Cristián Alviña, Daniela González

LANDSCAPE
Cristián Eguiguren

MANUFACTURERS
Graphisoft, Arauco, Cadwork, Etex

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Maurizio Angelini, Benjamín Oportot

CLIENTS
E2e

ENGINEERING
Natale Albertani

PHOTOGRAPHS
Roland Halbe

AREA
3390 ft²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Maipú, Chile

CATEGORY
Office Buildings

Text description provided by architect.

In the middle of an old factory dedicated to construction materials, it was requested the renovation of a warehouse and a series of attached sheds for a new industrialized building solutions company called E2E.

E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe

The proposal is to recycle the old warehouse and demolish the other minor sheds to increase the surface of green areas and locate the new offices next to a group of existing trees.

Through a two-story compact volume, mostly closed to its most direct industrial environment, the building aims to integrate nature into work spaces, opening completely one of its facades to the largest area of ​​the shaded garden.

E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe

From a 12 x 12 mt square plan and using a 1.2 x 1.5 mt modular grid, we developed a mass timber structure based on coffered beams and CLT panel, that rests over a series of perimeter columns.

This system reduces the section of the beams and concentrates the supports and bracing on the edge, allowing wider and more flexible spaces in the interior.

E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe

The integral wooden solution is left exposed in the interior, while the exterior combines a glass curtain wall that uses the timber columns as mullions and a ventilated facade with fiber cement plates and lattices of the same material used in front of the service area.

Thus, the building exhibits the main materials used in the production at E2E, such as fiber cement and the wooden structure.

E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe


E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices


E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe
E2E Offices
© Roland Halbe


E2E Offices
Plan 01
E2E Offices
Plan 02
E2E Offices
Site plan


E2E Offices
Elevations SE-SW
E2E Offices
Section A-B


E2E Offices
Detail
E2E Offices
Isometric

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