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Hall of Access for Valparaiso City

Part 2 Project 2005
Francisca Rivera Palma
 Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Santiago | Chile
The topic appears in a scene of projection and growth of Valparaiso city.

The city was named Patrimony of the Humanity, which supposes an increase and improvement of its public, cultural and patrimonial places.

The building of the jail was moved out of the center of the city and there is projected the “Cultural Center Ex_Jail of Valparaiso”.

The proposal is a hall of access for the Cultural Center shaped from a program of Cinemas as explosive of activity supported by a system of public spaces of circulation and movement that gathers the flows in the slope of hill from the base up to the top.



The project was sited within the city of Valparaíso, close to and old penitentiary that will become a cultural centre.

The Pedagogic Objectives: were two fold.

First: to be able to understand and conceive the building as a material construct which interacts with gravity. Consequently, to learn how to establish a particular relationship to this force: being the acceptance or the resistance of it a significant issue that was addressed during the workshop. The students identified to words that reveal to opposites ways to interact with gravity; On the one hand; tension and on the other hand compression.

Regarding the second point, and in relation to landscape, we understood it not as a spectacle to be consumed but as something to be contemplated and as a complement of the interior.

2005
The proposal is a new public space, a hall of access for the Cultural Center, on the top of the “Jail Hill”, one of the many hills that defines Valparaíso city.
The topic appears in a scene of projection and growth of Valparaiso city. The city was named Patrimony of the Humanity, which supposes an increase and improvement of its public, cultural and patrimonial places.
The building of the jail was moved out of the center of the city and there is projected the “Cultural Center Ex_Jail of Valparaiso”. This project will change the actual situation of densification and accesibility.
It is necessary to restate the influence of the hill and how the change of the use of his principal structure will affect this relation. The strategy is to colaborate in this "Re-identification Process", opening the hill to the city.
The proposal is an entrance hall of access for the Cultural Center, shaped from a program of Cinemas and supported by a system of public spaces of circulation and movement that gathers the flows in the slope of hill from the base up to the top.
The program study, for achieving a continuous and integrated space between the land, the cinemas and the mechanical stairs, in a exterior and interior experience.
The general plan. An integrated system of congregation spaces and circulation spaces from the city plan up to the Cultural Center.
The incorporation of the local circulations into the project is an accesibility structure. The private program allows the free use of the mechanical staircases as public transport throw the hill.
The relationships between the inferior-exterior cinema hall, and the superior-interior hall.
Pedestrian access to the project from the city plan.
City view from the vertical distribution halls, the connection point between the public circulation and the cinema entrance.
View from the connection/link level.
Superior hall. The superposition of programs and circulation needs.
The city scene materializing in each layer of the project.
View from the top level. The last step(square) to the Cultural Center.
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