Casona Compañía Restoration

Casona Compañía Restoration
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Casona Compañía Restoration

Oficina Bravo

ARCHITECT
Oficina Bravo

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT
Sergio Reyes

MANUFACTURERS
Aceros Villalba, Invisible Objetos

LEAD ARCHITECT
Sebastián Bravo

PROJECT IMAGES
Catalina Cárcamo

SANITARY PROJECT
Leonardo Cuevas — Cobe Ingenieros

BUILDER
Pablo Alvear, César González — Surtierra Arquitectura

CALCULATION PROJECT
Gerardo Fercovic — Arriostra

ELECTRICAL PROJECT
Pablo Oyola — Cobe Ingenieros

CLIMATE PROJECT
Jorge Jacob — Thermic

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bruno Giliberto

AREA
6458 Ft²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Santiago, Chile

CATEGORY
Cowork Interiors

Text description provided by the architects.

Casona Compañía is the name of an intervention and renovation project for a Historical Building Preservation.

Casona Compañía Restoration
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Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto
Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto

The original building was built in 1912 by architect A. Ríos T. in the Yungay district, located in downtown Santiago.

In 2016, the Casona was damaged by a fire, which destroyed almost the entire second floor and caused the facade fronting onto an outer housing passageway (cité) to collapse, rendering it nearly uninhabitable.

Throughout the restructuring process, we sought to transform the Casona into a collaborative and creativity-oriented space for accommodating Creative Industries.

Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto
Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto
Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto

This is achieved through two complementary measures: first by retrieving the historical facade - conserving the accesses, recovering the architectural expression and original construction technique - and then by incorporating metal latticework on the inside, which serves to arrange the new areas and also functions as structural support for the facade.

Inwardly, latticework is structured around a central vacuum separating the public areas - the cafeteria and multi-purpose rooms - from the working areas.

Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto
Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto
Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto

The first two are located near the facade and conserve the original building's heights, while the offices are stacked up towards the back of the Casona.

The main area consists of a triple-height air volume elevation, which gives out natural light inside the building, where one of the fronts is embedded with wood that was rescued from the fire.

Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto
Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto
Casona Compañía Restoration
© Bruno Giliberto

Casona Compañía Restoration
Planta piso 1
Casona Compañía Restoration
Planta piso 2
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Planta piso 3


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Secciones
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Secciones


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Axonometrías
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Plan - Roof