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News • News • 1 Aug 2020
South America’s first bioactive facade functions as a ‘forest in the city’
To actively combat air pollution in Chile’s capital city, architect Ricard Stein clad the façade of the new Hotel Nodo with Laminam bioactive panels as part of a design that not only iconographically represents a forest inside a city, but also functions as a forest by purifying the air.
Credit: Christian Klotz
Stein (principal of Stein-Suazo Arquitectos) explains, “Chile is presented to other countries as a land of landscapes. The Hotel Nodo attempts to iconographically represent landscapes as an element of differentiation, and satisfy the search for unique new experiences for people who temporarily live in a hotel. At the same time, the hotel was built with the intention of artificially reproducing nat... More
Project • By WINTERI | Architecture & Planning • Private Houses
R-B - House
Year: 2017Location: ValdiviaDesigned surface: 177.12 m²Clients: Bibiana and EstebanDesign team: WINTERI Architects
The location is nourished by the dramatic and wonderful view of the wetlands and Valdivian forest typical of the area. From this majestic environment, a volume begins to be designed, which revolves around two themes: the view and the quest to maximize sunlight. To reinforce this idea, a volume is projected horizontally, from which a front terrace extends, bringing the house closer to the topographic jump on the slope.
Being practically "hanging from the hill" the idea was created to create a bridge, which allows the house in Valdivia to be anchored to the land, connecting the rooms and living room of the second level to... More