The building is located in an area adjoining the train station of Puerto Varas. After trains ceased arriving to the city, the station and its surroundings became a degraded zone. Thus, the project is presented as an opportunity to revitalize this sector.

The building is placed in a plot adjacent to the railways, next to an old water tank. The hipped roof volume abstracts the vernacular shape of the traditional German barn, replicates its morphology and adapts to the grain of the neighborhood. Besides to respect the maximum height of 6 meters (plus mansard) established by the urbanistic regulations, it incorporates the “local façade ordinance” that seeks to recover the language of heritage architecture.

The two level and free plants edifice bends towards “its center” to create the access, opening to Decher street; it repeats the movement inwards and opens to the old train station. Removing the limits between what is public and what is private, the building becomes part of the public area.

A “big barn” that freely distributes its inner program, with a double height central empty space that organize the interior uses. The building, cladded with black wood in its entirety, merges with its surroundings, looking like a workshop of the old station. At the same time, lacking fences remove the boundaries, merging the front yard, the green areas and the parking lot with the public area.