San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos

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  • Architects: PAR Arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1016
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Diego Elgueta
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Bottai, Ingeniería Bosón, Piedra Roja arte en piedra
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San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Brick, Facade
© Diego Elgueta

Text description provided by the architects. The project seeks the configuration of a central void, as an adaptive and flexible extension to the functions of the various uses required by the program, this complemented by a system of perimeter corridors that articulate the various services of the programmatic edge. This configuration contrasts with the existing anteroom, a park of ancient trees, the patrimonial house and the state chapel.

San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Windows
© Diego Elgueta

It is propose the renovation of the preexisting buildings arranged in L-shape,  a old warehouse and stables, which together with the construction of two new volumes (kitchen and bathrooms), worked in cob brick masonry, confined in metal profiles and limewash painted, structure and contain the new square; Preserving the original formal expression of the time, a neutral and unitary language.

San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Brick, Facade, Beam
© Diego Elgueta
San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Facade, Courtyard
© Diego Elgueta

As a complement to the above, it is sought, through specific elements, to inject a new contemporary character that dialogues with the existing traditional architecture; Unifying elements such as Cor-ten steel skylights, as light lamps and composed pine pillars as support for louvers and temporary structures. In addition, some specific maneuver are established that give lightness to the profiles of the corridors and accentuations of color with terracotta and wine tones.

San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Windows, Facade, Courtyard
© Diego Elgueta
Floor Plan
San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Chair, Windows, Garden, Patio, Courtyard
© Diego Elgueta

The take-off or detachment, in terms of the order and arrangement of the new elements with respect to the old ones; Generates the project intervention strategy, a maneuvers that allows to understand the pieces of the project, manifesting the origin of each old or new part.

San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Beam
© Diego Elgueta
San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Beam, Bench
© Diego Elgueta

The landscape development, focused mainly on point applications; Lines and specific areas of vegetation that accompany paths and "dresses" certain places, maintaining a arid and clear image, which contrasts with the density and leafiest of the existing park.

San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Door, Facade, Beam, Courtyard
© Diego Elgueta

At the same time, different textures of floors are worked, river bolls with rounded stones in corridors detachments and random lines arranged in the esplanade; concrete refined slab for corridors; Prefabricated concrete tiles 30x60cm in locked arrangement for the square; And framing slate stone for the intervention of pre-existing damaged slabs.

San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos - Windows
© Diego Elgueta

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Address:Lonquén Sur, Región Metropolitana, Chile

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Cite: "San Miguel de Tango Convention Center / PAR Arquitectos" 06 Dec 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/800096/convention-center-san-miguel-de-tango-par-arquitectos> ISSN 0719-8884

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