Martín Schmidt Radic Arquitectos Asociados

UNAB Viña del Mar

UNAB Viña del Mar

Martin Schmidt Radic Arquitectos Asociados

UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld

PROJECT ARCHITECTS
Nicolas Norero

MANUFACTURERS
Hunter Douglas

CONSTRUCTION
Guzman Y Larraín

STRUCTURES
Sergio Contreras

DOUBLE ENCLOSURE CONSULTANTS 
Gt2p Y Shape

PREFABRICATED PARTITIONS
Premo España

COLLABORATORS
Karen Pradenas, Lina Rojas, Cristián Maze, Constanza Larach, Paloma Sanchez

ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS
Horacio Schmidt Cortes, Horacio Schmidt Radic, Martin Schmidt Radic

LANDSCAPE
Juan Grimm

FACADES
Hunter Douglas

PHOTOGRAPHS
Aryeh Kornfeld

YEAR
2013

LOCTION
Viña Del Mar, Chile

CATEGORY
Campus, University

UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld

Text description provided by architect.

The building is conceived as a large campus that houses all the schools of the University, organized into 4 main areas, Health, Sciences, Economics and Business and Engineering.

The Humanities and Mathematics areas are organized toward the perimeter of the flat area of the site, forming the Main Courtyard. 

UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld
UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld

The sciences area is located in a separate volume, the positive of the void of the plaza, it is on the upper part of the site with a privileged view of the city of Viña del Mar.

The Main Courtyard thus becomes the space of principal exchange on campus, a multipurpose space, where students of all schools meet.

UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld
UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld

This space is set by planters on the first level and in the north and west facades of the courtyard, where the circulation is, thus creating both a horizontal and a vertical garden and converting the upper corridors into places of permanence.

The circulations are distributed so as to obtain the best sunlight for classrooms, halls and laboratories, thus orienting halls and laboratories mainly to the east and south and the corridors to the north and west.

The building is designed through half floors connected by ramps, with this we enable students to wander especially in the access area, which gains en extra half height giving more hierarchy to the access and public spaces.

UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld
UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld

Since the building was built in just 16 months, we opted for industrialized finishing materials, inside much of the partition walls are prefabricated thereby accelerating construction and allowing future flexibility and 70% reuse of materials.

For the design of the facades we chose to work with glass and a single metal cladding, which on the west facade is presented as a veil, parametrically designed to exploit optimal lighting conditions, and to protect the facade with greater sun exposure. 

UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld
UNAB Viña del Mar
© Aryeh Kornfeld

We took as precedent the last 10 years of direct solar radiation, clouds and diffuse solar radiation, taking the average from March to December, which determined the angle of lattices, this is what gives the movement and image of the building from the street.


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