Amereida, Open City. Part 2: The materialisation of a utopia (II)

This article is part of the [Beyond Los Andes] , a personal project curated by Germán Andrés Chacón that explores the approach of modernity and the following tendencies on Chilean architecture through the analysis of some of its works, seeking to reveal the features that define its specific nature. Este artículo es parte de la serie [Beyond Los Andes] , comisariada por Germán Andrés Chacón en la que se estudia el enfoque de la modernidad y las posteriores tendencias en la arquitectura chilena a través del análisis de algunas de sus obras, tratando de revelar los aspectos que definen su carácter específico. Link to “Amereida, Open City. Part 1: The foundation of the group and its place” Amereida, Open City. Part 2: The materialisation of a utopia (I) The buildings that house the interior spaces include the aforementioned guesthouses and cubicles –intimate spaces for welcoming guests and where the teachers and their families live, but never private, as everything is communal property–, as well as workrooms and workshops. Las edificaciones que albergan los espacios interiores incluyen las ya mencionadas hospederías y cubículas –espacios de acogida de los huéspedes e íntimos donde viven los profesores y sus familias, pero nunca privados, pues todo es de propiedad comunitaria–, así como salas y talleres de trabajo. These are generally buildings with very complex, irregular and expressive shapes. Their strange configurations are the result of experimentation with themes that are repeated in many of the works, such as the study of protection factors against wind and rain, the search for a continuous and complex relationship between the interior and the exterior through a large number and diversity of openings, or the desire and convenience of rising above the ground given the mutable nature of the land and the value awarded to it.