1008 Elemental Portfolio PDF

URBAN DO TANK
CV and PORTFOLIO AGO, 2010
www.elementalchile.cl | info@elementalchile.cl | Av. Los Conquistadores 1700 / 25th Floor A / Providencia 7530128 / CHILE | Phone: +56 2 7533000 Fax: +56 2 7533016
2001 ELEMENTAL started working on housing projects with public funds. 2003 ELEMENTAL organized an International Housing Competition, under the support of the Universidad Catolica de Chile, Harvard University and CONICYT (Chilean Committee for Science and Technology). 2004 First built project in Iquique, Chile (Elemental_Iquique Housing Project, for 93 families). Since then, ELEMENTAL has constructed more than 1.000 units and designed other 2.000. 2007 ELEMENTAL, in partnership with COPEC (Chilean Oil Company) and Universidad Catolica de Chile, became for profit Company oriented to develop projects of housing, public space, infrastructure and transport.
PROFILE ELEMENTAL is a for profit company with social interest, whose shareholders are COPEC (Chilean Oil Company), the Universidad Catlica de Chile, and the Elemental founders. Its field of action is the city: the development of housing, public space, infrastructure and transportation projects that can perform as an effective and efficient upgrade in the quality of life of the poor. ELEMENTAL operates in contexts of scarce resources, using the city as a source of equality, and moreover, as a shortcut to correct inequalities. In order to contribute with professional quality work to urban projects, which may generate public welfare, ELEMENTAL has worked since 2002 under specific principles of operation. Lets consider Housing for example. 1. Social housing tends to be like buying cars: they loose value over time. ELEMENTAL identified a set design conditions that can make units gain value over time, treating housing as an investment and not just as a social expense. 2. In general, in the world, available money to solve the housing problem of the poor can pay only for half of a house. When that is the case, the key question is: Which half do we do? ELEMENTAL takes care of the half that a family will never be able to achieve on its own. 3. One of the 5 design issues that is a key factor in value gain and that cannot be improved afterwards by families themselves is location. The biggest problem of the poor is not the shelter in itself, but the access to opportunities that cities tend to concentrate (jobs, markets, education, health, recreation and social assistance). Those opportunities are not in the outskirts, where land is cheap and where the poor tend to be expelled. Location is much more important than size. Being land a scarce resource, projects have to be dense enough in order to be able to pay for more expensive and therefore better located lots. ELEMENTAL looks for density, without overcrowding, with possibility for expansion. 4. ELEMENTAL develops its projects with a very specific way of participation of the communities, focused on information and communication of constraints before opening the process to collective choice. Being the city a very efficient source of equality, ELEMENTAL is working on inclusive instead of exclusive cities.
Awards: Avonni Prize 2009 - for Innovative (Chile). Avonni Prize 2009 - for Social Entrepreneur (Chile). Marcus Corporation Foundation Prize 2009 (USA). Nominated for the Ordos Architecture Prize 2009 (China). Silver Lion at the XI Venice Biennale 2008 (Italy). Top 10 finalist in the Iakhov Chernikhov Prize 2008 (Moscow). Top 5 finalist in the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2008 (Paris). 1st Prize in the XII and the XV Santiago Biennale 2006 (Chile). Erich Schelling Architecture Medal 2006 (Germany). Sello Bicentenario Prize 2004 - Chilean Gobernment (Chile). Finalist in the Mies van der Rohe Award 2000(Barcelona). Exhibitions: Seoul Design Olympiad, Korea (2009) Venice Biennale, Italy (2008) Milan Triennale, Italy (2008) Design Philadelphia, USA (208) Sao Paulo Biennale, Brasil (2007) X-hibition, retrospective at Harvard GSD, USA (2004)
www.elementalchile.cl | www.alejandroaravena.com | info@elementalchile.cl | Av. Los Conquistadores 1700 / 25th Floor A / Providencia 7530128 / CHILE | Phone: +56 2 7533000 Fax: +56 2 7533016
On Going Projects: Housing Project, En Sully, Geneva, Switzerland.(07) Client: Private. Housing Project, Vila Real, Portugal. Client: Housing Secretariat of the Municipality of Vila Real. Novartis Shanghai Campus - Office Building, China. Client: China Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research PRES: Constitucion City, Reconstruction Masterplan, Chile.(02) Client: Arauco, Minvu (Housing Ministry). Metropolitan Promenade Master Plan (Santiago Metropolitan Park).(01) Client: Bicentennial Committee, Chilean Republic Presidency Housing Project, Paraisopolis Favela, Sao Paulo, Brazil.(03) Client: Housing Secretariat of the Municipality of Sao Paulo. Housing Project. Monterrey, Mexico.(04) Client: Housing Institute of Nuevo Leon State. Parque Bicentenario de la Infancia. Santiago, Chile.(05) Client: Parque Metropolitano, Junji - Gobierno de Chile. Mirador Espinazo del Diablo. Jalisco, Mexico.(06) Client: Secretaria de Turismo del Gobierno de Jalisco.
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PROYECTOS | PROJECTS:
2010 BUILT MONTERREY | 70 houses | Monterrey, Mxico. MIRADOR ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO | Equipment | Jalisco, Mxico. BARNECHA I | 150 houses and Community Center | Santiago. LA PINTANA | 68 houses | Santiago. 2010 UNDER CONSTRUCTION PARQUE BICENTENARIO DE LA INFANCIA | 6 H | Santiago. RENCA 2 | 45 houses | Santiago. LO ESPEJO II | 125 houses and Community Center | Santiago. RENCA III | 74 houses and Community Center | Santiago. 2009 BUILT ANTOFAGASTA I | 95 houses and Community Center | Antofagasta. VALPARAISO I | 150 houses and Community Center | Valparaso. 2009 PROJECT OCEAN WEINGUT | Neirstein, Germany. RESORT PLAYA ONDA | 120 ber-chic appartments | Panama. PARAISOPOLIS | 120 houses | Sao Paulo | Brazil. MAKE IT RIGHT RESIDENCE PROTOTYPE | New Orleans | USA. WALK PARK ZCALO METROPOLITANO | 12 kilometers | Santiago. TEMUCO II | 285 houses and equipment | Temuco. JUANA NTONIO RIOS | 550 apartments recovery | Santiago. TOCOPILLA | 20 houses | Tocopilla. RANCAGUA I | 214 houses | Rancagua. Miguel ngel | 135 houses and Community Center | Santiago. Mirador | 40 apartments | Concepcin. Cerro Estanque | 169 houses | Concepcin. Pata de Vaca | 350 houses | Los Alamos. Puente Alto | 450 houses | Santiago. Cocholge | 543 houses | Concepcin. 2008 BUILT PREFABRICATED HOUSING PROTOTYPE | 2 houses concrete prefabricated | Miln, Italy RENCA I | 170 houses and Community Center | Santiago. TEMUCO I | 159 houses and Community Center | Temuco. PUDAHUEL I | 40 houses and Community Center | Santiago. 2008 PROJECT CONECTOR EL BOSQUE | 4000 parking and equipment | 18000 m2 | Santiago. Pablo de Rokha School | 1388 m2 | Santiago. Profesora Aurelia Rojas Burgos School | 2569 m2 | Santiago. 2007 BUILT LO ESPEJO I | 30 houses | Santiago 2006 PROJECT RENOVATION OF DIEGO PORTALES | Building recovery | Santiago STREET MARKETS | Equipment | Santiago Don Bosco | 136 houses | San Bernardo. Plan Maestro Bicentenario | 770 houses | Santiago. 2004 BUILT IQUIQUE (a.k.a. Quinta Monroy) | 93 houses | Iquique. 2004 PROJECT COPIAPO | 120 houses | Copiapo. CHIGUAYANTE | 150 houses | Chiguayante. VALDIVIA | 150 houses | Chiguayante.
INFRASTRUCTURE
PUBLIC SPACE
is a for profit company with social interest We work in projects able to capitalize the capacity of the city to create wealth and to be a shortcut towards equality by improving quality of life without having to wait for income redistribution.
TRANSPORTATION
HOUSING
HOUSING AS INVESTMENT NOT AS MERE SOCIAL EXPENSE
We identified a set of design conditions that allow housing units to gain value over time. When upper and middle classes buy a home, they expect it to appreciate in value. That is not the case with social housing. This is important because housing subsidies are a direct transfer of public funds to poor families which could be potentially be used by them to ask for loans or get micro credits to start small businesses.
ELEMENTAL IQUIQUE, CHILE.
SAFE, ECONOMIC & FAST INCREMENTAL SELF CONSTRUCTION
Cost per unit = US$ 7,500 (includes land, infrastructure and the house) Average Inictial size of unit = 36m2. US$100 x m2 Final size of the unit (after self construction within provided structure) = 70 to 80 m2 Average cost of self-constructed second half of the house = US$ 25 x m2 By providing the structure for the final scenario, self construction is safe, economic and fast.
36 m2 initial
36 m2 self built
US$7.500
US$2.500
US$22.500
36 m2 = 1/2 GOOD HOUSE INSTEAD OF A SMALL HOUSE
36m2 are treated by the market and designed as if they were a small house. Instead, we thought that 36m2 can be considered as half of a good house, 1/2 of a middle income standard house. When available money can pay for just half of the house, the key question is, which half do we do? We decided to provide the half that families will never be able to achieve on their own, something that is almost by definition what a public policy should do, concentrating the funds in what is more strategic and leaving space for people afterwards to intervene. We identified a set of parameters that because of technical complexity of difficulty of spontaneous coordination are very unlikely to be done efficiently and with quality by families themselves, which are the starting point of an incremental process of construction, that can then be performed individually adding value to the neighborhood and the family property.
ELEMENTAL LO ESPEJO, CHILE.
DENSE ENOUGH WITHOUT OVERCROWDED INCREMENTAL PROJECTS
One of the elements that explain value appreciation is location. It also is highly desirable from a social point of view, because integrating the families into the networks of opportunities that cities offer instead of displacing them to the periphery, is essential. The problem here is that land is expensive. We developed high density projects without overcrowding in low rise designs that avoid the expensive maintenance costs of the buildings (like elevators or artificially illuminated corridors). These denser typologies (between 450 to 900 inhabitants per hectare) allow us to prorate the acquisition of well located lots and still allow each single unit to expand.
low rise dense enough project to pay for good location land (450-900 inhab/h)
ELEMENTAL MONTERREY, MEXICO.
without overcrowding
with possibility of expansion (up to 70/80 m2, e.i. middle income standard DNA )
PARTICIPATORY / CUSTOMIZABLE DESIGNS
Given that this a progressive scheme, our projects have included the communities in participatory processes, where information and communication of constraints are the starting point. We know that in socially fragile environments, the collective dimension is very key, so we also empower and encourage the coordinated community level of decision making. This is translated in a design operation by introducing the collective space in between the public and the private to allow the extensive family to develop and the social network to flourish.
PROYECTOS DE VIVIENDA HOUSING PROJECTS
Example: We accepted Chilean housing policys set of rules: A $7,500 dollar subsidy with which land, infrastructure and construction had to be paid; in the best of the cases that meant around 36 m2. The market understands 36m2 as a small house. We thought that it was better to consider 36m2 as half of a good house. When there is money for just 1/2 House, the key question is, which half do we do? We thought that with public funds we should deliver the half that a family will never be able to do on its own. We identified 5 design conditions that conform that difficult first half. All of us, when buying a house, expect it to gain value over time. In social housing that is rarely the case; units behave as cars, loosing value every day. We thought that we should design housing units capable of gaining value over time, treating them as an investment and not a social expense We identified 5 design conditions that can make social housing gain value over time.
Market
72 m2
36 m2
ELEMENTAL
72 m2
36 m2
This is what you normally get while building for $7.500, 45 minutes away from the city, in a stigmatized periphery.
For the same money we did this, in the same place where they have lived for the last 30 years, paying 3 times more than what social housing has ever paid for the land.
BEFORE (2005)
AFTER (2006)
BEFORE (2005)
AFTER (2006)
ELEMENTAL PREFAB PROTOTYPE We need to do all this quick and massive, so we are developing some prefabricated prototypes historical critcisim to prefabrication: System efficiency = repetition = incapacity to meet diversity (family structure, taste, identity etc) When not enough money = prefab 1/2 House = be monotonous without bad conscience. Not only great for costs and speed, but only way to frame random selfconstruction and transform deterioration into customization
Project: 2008 | Construction: 2008 | Built Area: 36 m2 | Location: Triennale di Milano, Italy.
ELEMENTAL IQUIQUE
93 Houses Complex | Built: 2004 | Initial Built Area: 36 m2 per unit | Expanded house: 70m | Location: Quinta Monroy, Iquique. Chile.
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL ANTOFAGASTA
95 Houses Complex | Built: 2008 | Initial house: 55,3 m | Expanded house: 73,2 m | Location: Antofagasta, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL MONTERREY, MEXICO

70 Houses Complex | Built: 2009 | Initial Built Area: 36m per unit | Expanded house: 70m | Location: Monterrey, Mexico.
ELEMENTAL VALPARAISO
128 Houses Complex | Built: 2009 | Built Area: 65,1 m per unit | Location: Valparaso, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL TEMUCO
159 Houses Complex | Built: 2008 | Initial Built Area: 56 m per unit | Location: Temuco, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL RENCA
170 Houses Complex | Built: 2008 | Initial Built Area: 67 m per unit | Location: Santiago, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL RENCA
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL LO ESPEJO
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL LO ESPEJO
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL LA PINTANA
68 Houses Complex | Built: 2010 | Initial Built Area: 44 m2 per unit | Expanded house: 68m | Location: La Pintana, Santiago. Chile.
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL LO BARNECHEA
150 Houses Complex | Built: 2010 | Initial Built Area: 28 m2 per unit | Expanded house: 70m | Location: Lo Barnechea, Santiago. Chile.
ELEMENTAL
MAKE IT RIGHT_ELEMENTAL
Prototype | Project: 2009 | Initial Built Area: 168 m2 per unit | Expanded house: 320 m | Location: New Orleans, USA.
E-BLOCK ELEMENTAL PROTOTIPO PREFABRICADO 2

Projecto: 2009
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL RANCAGUA
206 Houses Complex | Project: 2009 | Initial Built Area: 55 m2 per unit | Expanded house: 65m | Location: Rancagua. Chile.
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL_PARAISOPOLIS
120 Houses Complex | Project: 2009 | Initial Built Area: 44 m2 per unit | Expanded house: 63 m | Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil.
ELEMENTAL
COMMUNITY CENTER | HOUSING PROJECT

Project: 2008 | Buit area: 70 m2 | Location: Pudahuel, Santiago -Chile
ELEMENTAL
PROYECTOS PUBLICOS PUBLIC PROJECTS
CONECTOR EL BOSQUE
Project: 2006 | leng: 400 mt. | parkin: 400units | 1800 m2 comercial Location: Santiago, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
MIRADOR ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO
Built: 2010 | Built Area: 140 m2 | Location: Jalisco, Mexico.
CONSTITUCION CITY, RECONSTRUCTION MASTERPLAN

Concept Design: 2010 | Location: Constitucin, Chile.
after tsunami
ANTI TSUNAMI CITY

METROPOLITAN PROMENADE
Project: 2009 | Master plan | Location: Santiago, Chile. | | Promenade length: 14 km
ELEMENTAL
BICENTENNIAL CHILDREN PARK

Project: 2008 | Under Construction | Built area: 3.4 h | Location: Santiago, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
RECONVERSION ESTACION ELECTRICA

Concept Design: 2008 | Built area: 20.000 m2 | Location: Santiago, Chile.
POST/CHAITEN ERUPTION RELOCATION AND CONCEPTUAL MASTER PLAN

Project: 2008 | 400 housing units | Location: Chaiten, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
ELEMENTAL
PARQUE LINEAL VICUA MACKENNA | VIADUCTO METRO LINEA 4

Concept Design: 2009 | Location: Santiago, Chile.
LAS SALINAS | PROMENADE, RESIDENTIAL RESORT and COMERCIAL FACILITIES

Concept Design: 2005 | Built area: 1MM m2 | PromenadE length: 2 km. | Location: Via del Mar, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
AURELIA ROJAS BURGOS SCHOOL

Project: 2007 | Built area: 3.666 m2 | Location: Santiago, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
PABLO DE ROHKA SCHOOL

Project: 2007 | Built area: 2.696 m2 | Location: Santiago, Chile.
ELEMENTAL
FERIAS LIBRES | STREET MARKETS

Concept Design: 2006 | 400 units | Location: Santiago, Chile.
RECUPERACION EDIFICIO DIEGO PORTALES

Concept Design: 2006 | Location: Santiago, Chile.
PROYECTOS PRIVADOS PRIVATE PROJECTS
Alejandro Aravena Architects

WORKS AND PROJECTS
THE SIAMESE TOWERS

Project: 2003 - 2004 | Construction: 2004 - 2005 | Built Area: 5000 m2 | Budget: US$ 400 x m2 | Location: Santiago-Chile
THE SIAMESE TOWERS

Project: 2003 - 2004 | Construction: 2004 - 2005 | Built Area: 5000 m2 | Budget: US$ 400 x m2 | Location: Santiago-Chile
ST. EDWARDS UNIVERSITY | NEW RESIDENCE AND DINING HALL

Project: 2006-2007 | Completion: 2008 | Built Area: 12.000 m2 | Location: Austin, Texas-USA
ST. EDWARDS UNIVERSITY | NEW RESIDENCE AND DINING HALL

Project: 2006-2007 | Completion: 2008 | Built Area: 12.000 m2 | Location: Austin, Texas-USA
ST. ANTONY WINERY

Project: 2009 | Built Area: 4.220 m2 | Location: Nierstein, Germany
MEDICAL SCHOOL
Project: 2001-2002 | Construction: 2002-2004 | Built Area: 9000 m2 | Budget: US$ 350 x m2 | Location: Santiago-Chile
MEDICAL SCHOOL
Project: 2001-2002 | Construction: 2002-2004 | Built Area: 9000 m2 | Budget: US$ 350 x m2 | Location: Santiago-Chile
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
Project: 2004 | Construction: 2004 | Built Area: 1500 m2 | Budget: US$ 100 x m2 | Location: Santiago-Chile.
MATHEMATICS FACULTY
Project: 1998 | Construction: 1999 | Built Area: 2000m2 | Budget: US$ 350 x m2 | Location: Santiago-Chile
PIREHUEICO HOUSE
Project: 2003 | Construction: 2004 | Built Area: 350 m2 | Budget: US$ 1000 x m2 | Location: Pirehueico Lake - Chile
PIREHUEICO HOUSE
Project: 2003 | Construction: 2004 | Built Area: 350 m2 | Budget: US$ 1000 x m2 | Location: Pirehueico Lake - Chile
FAZENDA BOA VISTA

Project: 2010 | Construction: 2010 | Built Area: 710 m2 | Location: Sao Paulo - Brazil
VITRA CHILDREN WORKSHOP

Project: 2008 | Construction: 2009 | Built Area: 900 m2 | Location: Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
VITRA CHILDREN WORKSHOP

Project: 2008 | Construction: 2009 | Built Area: 900 m2 | Location: Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
Basement Plan
Ground Floor Plan
ORDOS 100 HOUSE

Project: 2008 | Construction / Completion: 2009 | Built Area: 990 m2 | Location: Ordos, China.
RESORT PLAYA ONDA

Concept Design: 2009 | 120 Uber-Chic Apartments | Built Area: 27,000 m2 | Location: Playa Onda, Isla Saboga- Las Perlas, Panama.
BANSI CORPORATE BUILDING

Concept Design: 2009 | Built Area: 16,000 m2 + 20,000 m2 parking | Location: Guadalajara, Mexico

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URBAN DO TANK

CV and PORTFOLIO AGO, 2010

HOUSING AS INVESTMENT NOT AS MERE SOCIAL EXPENSE

ELEMENTAL IQUIQUE, CHILE.

SAFE, ECONOMIC & FAST INCREMENTAL SELF CONSTRUCTION

36 m2 = 1/2 GOOD HOUSE INSTEAD OF A SMALL HOUSE

ELEMENTAL LO ESPEJO, CHILE.

DENSE ENOUGH WITHOUT OVERCROWDED INCREMENTAL PROJECTS

ELEMENTAL MONTERREY, MEXICO.

PARTICIPATORY / CUSTOMIZABLE DESIGNS

PROYECTOS DE VIVIENDA HOUSING PROJECTS

ELEMENTAL MONTERREY, MEXICO

E-BLOCK ELEMENTAL PROTOTIPO PREFABRICADO 2

COMMUNITY CENTER | HOUSING PROJECT

PROYECTOS PUBLICOS PUBLIC PROJECTS

MIRADOR ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO

Built: 2010 | Built Area: 140 m2 | Location: Jalisco, Mexico.

CONSTITUCION CITY, RECONSTRUCTION MASTERPLAN

ANTI TSUNAMI CITY

BICENTENNIAL CHILDREN PARK

RECONVERSION ESTACION ELECTRICA

POST/CHAITEN ERUPTION RELOCATION AND CONCEPTUAL MASTER PLAN

PARQUE LINEAL VICUA MACKENNA | VIADUCTO METRO LINEA 4

LAS SALINAS | PROMENADE, RESIDENTIAL RESORT and COMERCIAL FACILITIES

AURELIA ROJAS BURGOS SCHOOL

PABLO DE ROHKA SCHOOL

FERIAS LIBRES | STREET MARKETS

RECUPERACION EDIFICIO DIEGO PORTALES

PROYECTOS PRIVADOS PRIVATE PROJECTS

Alejandro Aravena Architects

THE SIAMESE TOWERS

THE SIAMESE TOWERS

ST. EDWARDS UNIVERSITY | NEW RESIDENCE AND DINING HALL

ST. EDWARDS UNIVERSITY | NEW RESIDENCE AND DINING HALL

ST. ANTONY WINERY

FAZENDA BOA VISTA

VITRA CHILDREN WORKSHOP

VITRA CHILDREN WORKSHOP

Ground Floor Plan

ORDOS 100 HOUSE

RESORT PLAYA ONDA

BANSI CORPORATE BUILDING

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