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Multipurpose Hall
Multipurpose Hall
Chuquicamata, Chile
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Multipurpose Hall
Chuquicamata, Chile
Project Featured on Oct 28, 2025
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2024
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
The wall and the shadow
To enhance the community life of the Chuquicamata School, located on the outskirts of Calama and on the edge of what was its founding master plan devised by Gubbins Architects in 1999, seeks to enhance community life through an archaic design action. This action focuses on mediating between a controlled interior environment and the vast Atacama Desert, a challenging natural environment. To achieve this balance, a transition space has been created, an “intermediate space” (Glenda Kapstein, 1988), a garden between the shaded parallelepiped and the curved wall that protects it, giving rise to community coexistence.
The project is structured around a curved wall of interlocking cement blocks of 20 x 20 x 40 cm, with a radius of 24.15 meters. This wall is not simply a barrier; The building is composed of sections of straight walls surrounding a concrete and glass volume, designed based on a square grid of 81 modules of 2.4 x 2.4 meters to house the extracurricular use room. This interior space of 21.6 x 21.6 meters not only provides a refuge from the extreme climate in the desert, but also invites the community to live together, promoting activities and meetings in a conditioned environment with low energy consumption. The curved wall casts shade, in addition to protecting and delimiting a garden, evoking the image of Athanasius Kircher's Garden of Eden.
The building is located in the orbit of an imaginary ellipse, integrating the existing pedestrian sidewalk and transforming it into an integral part of the new space delimited by the wall. This new order not only respects, but also complements the logic of the environment, creating a fluid transition between the space built by the Chuquicamata School buildings and the surrounding nature.
The Multipurpose Hall is not just a building; It is a space that reflects the essence of the Atacama community, promoting interaction, learning and growth in an environment that embraces both culture and nature, through the dialogue between nature and artifice.
To enhance the community life of the Chuquicamata School, located on the outskirts of Calama and on the edge of what was its founding master plan devised by Gubbins Architects in 1999, seeks to enhance community life through an archaic design action. This action focuses on mediating between a controlled interior environment and the vast Atacama Desert, a challenging natural environment. To achieve this balance, a transition space has been created, an “intermediate space” (Glenda Kapstein, 1988), a garden between the shaded parallelepiped and the curved wall that protects it, giving rise to community coexistence.
The project is structured around a curved wall of interlocking cement blocks of 20 x 20 x 40 cm, with a radius of 24.15 meters. This wall is not simply a barrier; The building is composed of sections of straight walls surrounding a concrete and glass volume, designed based on a square grid of 81 modules of 2.4 x 2.4 meters to house the extracurricular use room. This interior space of 21.6 x 21.6 meters not only provides a refuge from the extreme climate in the desert, but also invites the community to live together, promoting activities and meetings in a conditioned environment with low energy consumption. The curved wall casts shade, in addition to protecting and delimiting a garden, evoking the image of Athanasius Kircher's Garden of Eden.
The building is located in the orbit of an imaginary ellipse, integrating the existing pedestrian sidewalk and transforming it into an integral part of the new space delimited by the wall. This new order not only respects, but also complements the logic of the environment, creating a fluid transition between the space built by the Chuquicamata School buildings and the surrounding nature.
The Multipurpose Hall is not just a building; It is a space that reflects the essence of the Atacama community, promoting interaction, learning and growth in an environment that embraces both culture and nature, through the dialogue between nature and artifice.
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