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Sebastian Castro

Estudio Bigspin

Santiago, Chile
Architect and Skateboarder, Founder and Director of projects related to architecture, design, research, education, skateboarding and social issues.

Call for ideas 2021

Reformulate a Giant


Reformulation from the first floor to a ‘Vertical Ghetto’

Reformulate a Giant


Reformulation from the first floor to a ‘Vertical Ghetto’
A counter scenario in response to the inconsistencies of our growth development management models.
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Type of project
  • Systemic changes

The city has become the key scenario in the market-driven globalization process. Consequently, having a position in relation to the confrontation between public and private space is indispensable for understanding the role of architecture in the cities of the future.

Re-thinking the transformation of obsolete mega constructions that neoliberalism has left as a vestige before the awakening of citizenship, without necessarily altering their main program, as it is in this project the housing, allows us to give a strike and transform the self-interest of the neoliberalism in its maximum contradiction, and thus to return to the habitants the right to the city, common spaces and to recover the public sphere.

The power of architectural design will be the icon of the transformation to proposals that operate from the common, inviting new forms of living, capable of correcting communities, cities and even territories that have been divided by private interests.



Conceptual model that shows the operation made in the lower floors of the building which aims to understand the project based on an accurate action that seeks to attack the 'enemy' from its base, to be reformed and allow the linking of the horizontal territory and the verticality of the building.

The image shows a section of the building with the project in operation, which gives both the inhabitants of the building and nearby neighbors, the infrastructure necessary to create meeting scenarios, public, common and production spaces.

Reformulate a Giant


Reformulation from the first floor to a ‘Vertical Ghetto’

Reformulate a Giant


Reformulation from the first floor to a ‘Vertical Ghetto’
A counter scenario in response to the inconsistencies of our growth development management models.
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

The city has become the key scenario in the market-driven globalization process. Consequently, having a position in relation to the confrontation between public and private space is indispensable for understanding the role of architecture in the cities of the future.

Re-thinking the transformation of obsolete mega constructions that neoliberalism has left as a vestige before the awakening of citizenship, without necessarily altering their main program, as it is in this project the housing, allows us to give a strike and transform the self-interest of the neoliberalism in its maximum contradiction, and thus to return to the habitants the right to the city, common spaces and to recover the public sphere.

The power of architectural design will be the icon of the transformation to proposals that operate from the common, inviting new forms of living, capable of correcting communities, cities and even territories that have been divided by private interests.



Conceptual model that shows the operation made in the lower floors of the building which aims to understand the project based on an accurate action that seeks to attack the 'enemy' from its base, to be reformed and allow the linking of the horizontal territory and the verticality of the building.

The image shows a section of the building with the project in operation, which gives both the inhabitants of the building and nearby neighbors, the infrastructure necessary to create meeting scenarios, public, common and production spaces.


Idea by

Sebastian Castro
Estudio Bigspin
Santiago
Chile
Architect and Skateboarder, Founder and Director of projects related to architecture, design, research, education, skateboarding and social issues.