URBAN ENVIRONMENT DESIGN | no.42 | p.2-40 | 07/10/2010
Proyectos Elemental Publicados en China
Out Look Magazine | nº91 | p.66-68 | China | 01/11/2009
Renca
22/09/2009
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Renca 3
13/09/2009
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DAMN magazine: entrevista Alejandro Aravena
DAMn | #21 | p.55-60 | BELGIUM | 01/04/2009
ARQUITECTURA SUSTENTABLE | no.2 | p.62 |MEXICO | 10/01/2009
Elemental projects on Igloo
IGLOO | p. 58-60 | ROMANIA | 09/12/2008
In the last edition of Igloo, appears Elemental with the following projects: Chiguayante, Copiapo, Iquique, Renca, Temuco and the Pablo de Rokha and Aurelia Rojas schools.
Elemental on Harvard Magazine
HARVARD MAGAZINE | USA | 07/11/2008
For Santiago’s Poor, Housing with Dignity
A young boy plays unsupervised in front of a house that bears a small wooden sign, handwritten in marker: Se venden helados-ice cream for sale.
Behind this rather ordinary scene is an extraordinary story with deep Harvard ties. In this tidy development of row houses, 170 families who once lived illegally have become homeowners. Stay-at-home moms feel safe leaving their children in the front yard; some have started small businesses. It is a far cry from the lawless environment of the campamento, or squatter settlement, that sat on the same tract of land until 2004.
The development has transformed residents’ lives. It is also transforming notions of how to build housing for the poor. Similar developments are built or under way at a dozen other locations in Chile, and there are plans to replicate the project in other countries.
In these housing developments, the architecture firm ELEMENTAL departs from common practice in several crucial ways. Their pathbreaking work has won one international architecture award so far.
Líder de los Campamentos: El poder de Cecilia
REVISTA YA | p. 28-32 | CHILE | 28/10/2008
“Mira fuerte, habla fuerte, se ríe fuerte, alega fuerte. Es una mujer que pareciera que nació peleando, luchando, venciendo el destino que probablemente la esperaba. Tiene 40 años, tres hijos, un marido y una cruzada: lograr que la gente de los campamentos se organice y salga adelante, tal como ella y su gente lo pudieron hacer.
Está sentada en el comedor de su casa en la comunidad Antumalal, en una de las famosas casas Elemental, diseñadas por Alejandro Aravena, que han ganado premios y reconocimientos internacionales como viviendas sociales de calidad. Gracias al subsidio del Ministerio de Vivienda pudo obtener una de estas casas, amplias, aireadas, bien construidas, impecables desde que se traspasa la puerta y aparecen los muros claros, el piso de cerámica, los sillones beige de cuero, el comedor de madera cálida, y un bar al lado de la cocina. En el segundo y tercer piso están los dormitorios.”
Elemental en Il Magazine dell architettura
Il Magazine dell architettura | Nº12 | p. 1, 26-30 | 26/09/2008
“40 anni, direttore di Elemental (uno dei 55 studi selezionati da Aaron Betsky per la ricognizione sull’architettura sperimentale al Padiglione Italia alla Biennale di Venezia 2008) in Cile si occupa principalmente di progetti di edilizia popolare, tentando di raccogliere quelle che ritiene le sfide cruciali di un architetto: povertà, sviluppo, marginalità e segregazione. Ma tra i suoi ultimi incarichi figura anche la progettazione del nuovo gioiellino per la sede sociale Vitra a Weil am Rhein”
Nota en TVN del Proyecto Elemental Renca
24 HORAS | TVN | CHILE | 20/09/2008
Nota del noticiario central de TVN que muestra cómo los propietarios de las recientemente inauguradas viviendas del proyecto Elemental Renca Antumalal, han ampliado y mejorado sus casa a poco más de un mes de su inauguracón.
Se destaca el ADN de clase media que tienen las viviendas, las cuales pueden llegar, ampliándose, hasta los 70m² y como los habitantes participaron de su diseño y conformación de los barrios.
Proyectos de Elemental en Mark Magazine
MARK MAGAZINE |#15 | p. 174-181 | HOLLAND | 14/08/2008
Inauguration project ELEMENTAL Renca Antumalal in GiroPais.cl
Giropais.cl | 18/06/2008
“Elemental -do thank in which the Giro País adviser Alejandro Aravena- inaugurated another of his innovative, social housing projects: 170 houses of 35 inhabitable square meteres, extendable by 28 square meters.
The project was conceived with the Fondo Solidario para la Vivienda by JUNDEP, Un techo para Chile and the Ministerio de la Vivienda.”
Inauguration Project ELEMENTAL Renca
CANAL 13 | TELETRECE | CHILE | 04/06/2008
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Renca (in construction) on Barqo.cl
barqo.cl 07/05/2008
The Photographic Bank of Chilean Architecture recently published photography of the Renca project, currently under construction.
ELEMENTAL in Arquine 43
ARQUINE 43 | p. 32 - 43 | MÉXICO | PRIMAVERA 2008 24/03/2008
“The two projects that we presented are part of the Elemental Initiative, a Doing Tank associates with the Compañía de Petróleos de Chile (Copec) and the Universidad Católica.We focus on designing and implementing urban projects of social interest and public relevance. In the realm of housing, at the end of 2007, we had built a thousand units in five projects and another two thousand underway. (…)”
ELEMENTAL in the monograph of Alejandro Aravena
ELECTA | p. 86 - 113 | ITALIA | 22/11/2007
The Italian editor, ELECTA, has just published a monograph on Alejandro Aravena, part of the series Documenti de architettura. It is titled Alejandro Aravena, projettare e costruire, and is published in Italian.
In the book are shown the ELEMENTAL Iquique, Lo Espejo and Renca projects, as well as the Sede Social Tipo.
Expansion-proof design
FOCO 76 | p.56-58 | CHILE | 31/05/2007
Article written by Gonzalo Arteaga.
In social housing, the quality of materials is not as determinate as the quality of the design. This assures that the extensions, that the proprietors will undoubtedly need to build do not affect the initial thermic efficiency.
ELEMENTAL signs COPEC as associates – UC on canal 13
CANAL 13 | TELETRECE | CHILE | 21/11/2006
With the motive of the signing Con of ELEMENTAL with Copec and the Universidad Católica as associates, teletrece explained the project, showing the example of ELEMENTAL Renca and interviewing Gonzalo Arteaga and Alejandro Aravena, who in turn explaing the focus of ELEMENTAL. The report notes the importance of this agreement as the possiblilty to create more projects like this one.
Beginning of the end of “Lo Boza” of Renca
CANAL 13 | Teletrece | CHILE | 03/10/2006
The end of one of the capital’s poorest “campamentos” (shanty towns) begins.
Renca shanty town families will have their own homes
CANAL 13 | Teletrece | CHILE | 04/06/2006
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The new houses will be located in the Perla condominio Perla, of Renca. There are 170 families, provenientes from four slums of this commune that will receive a new home.
“For me, its a dream. My life’s dream is to have my own home. The my chilcren have their own room, and I my patio, my kitchen. Wonderful.” Expressed a future proprietor.
To acheive this dream, Susana sold bread and números de rifa. Her goal was to save 355 thousand pesos to obtain a subsidy. With this, her family was able to be among the beneficiaries that will live in the new complex…
Participation, the key to erradicating slums
EL MERCURIO | p. C-6 | CHILE | 27/03/2006
Inhabitants are involved in the construction of their own homes.
It’s not necessary to win the lottery to change from a dirt floor shack to a middle class house with tree rooms and thoughtful architecture.
The Elemental project, together with Un techo para Chile, found an alternative for relocation without violence for the inhabitants of the slums to definitive dwellings.
Renca: Basural converted into a village
EL MERCURIO | p. C-7 | CHILE | 30/12/2005
The ELEMENTAL project of the Universidad Católica designed a solution for 170 families.