2015 > SOCIAL WORK - ARCHIKIDZ

Archikidz! Is an architectural festival for children between the ages of 6 and 12, which began in Holland a decade ago and today takes place annually in the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Bergen, Sydney, Barcelona and Buenos Aires. Its first version in Santiago of Chile was carried out in 2013, in Juventud Providencia. The event was held for free with the valuable support of the Architecture Area of the Culture Council, and private sponsors, collaborators and volunteers. No doubt the energy lived during that first version of the festival was the product of a wonderful team that accepted the challenge of being part of this international festival, unique in its kind.

In the year 2015, Archikidz! was able to count on a second version in our country thanks to the financing of the National Fund of Cultural Development and the Arts, through the Architecture Area of the Culture Council.

The activity was free and was held at the Cultural Center GAM in two sessions on November Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Two days full of creativity in which 200 children and more than 100 professionals and students from the world of design and architecture participated. We all worked collectively and transversally on creative tables that sought to build fragments of the city. Through the dialogue, drawings and development of models, the sum of the work of each of the tables, formed at the end of the day, the image of the city that children dream for their future.

The Santiago Archikidz! Festival is a contribution to the learning process in early ages, encouraging in children the interest in understanding the functioning of the city and enhancing citizen responsibility, the ability to seize the environment and consciously act to transform it.

2008 – 2018 > MATERIALS INNOVATION

This chapter reflects another interest that I have had since my student years of architecture and then with the development of my professional career I have been able to work and apply in concrete works. This is the fact that the subject in architecture is understood within the design proposals as an opportunity to develop new material possibilities where the final expression of the object designed, is a reflection of the specific constructive process that generates it. It is in this sense that here are two concrete examples.

The development of two ventilated facade products, architectural coating in micro- perforated aluzinc (Quadrolines 15x30 and W panels), for educational buildings where exposure to solar radiation and light dazzling inside the educational space is central.

The second example is the design of a formwork / molding for reinforced concrete walls of large surfaces, where the idea is that the texture that is generated produces the visual decrease of perception of errors of this material and also that when embossing the wall Is self-casting shadow and this in turn achieves that the wall lower its thermal inertia in two degrees Celsius average and complementarily product of the movement of the sun, evidence the passage of time in its facade expression.

2008 – 2018 > DESIGN PRACTICE

The information contained in this chapter shows some projects in which I have been able to develop my passion and interest in the design objects, artifacts, and furniture in its various scales and complexities. From the design of a wooden laminated chair with locked fixings, to projects of commercial offices interior design, workspaces and remodeling spaces to eat, cook and teach.