Patio Bellavista

by Plan 3 Arquitectos

Patio Bellavista 4

© Plan 3 Arquitectos

Architect: Martin Lira, Paula Tuckermann, Agustín Palacios
Collaborator: Sebastián Larroulet
Cliente: Inversiones Las Arenas Ltda.
General Contractor: DeVicente
Landscaping: Marcela Carcur, Francisca Astaburuaga
Location: Pionono/Bellavista/Constitución
Proyect Area: 9.309 m2

The program is organized in 5 levels, in some areas in two levels over the stret level, plus 3 levels of underground parking, with 16 shops, 8 bars and restaurants and 221 parking spaces.

With the intervention and restauration of all the existing facades, the continuity and diversity is put in relevance, and even being from different styles and periods, these dialog in the contuinity and stablish a whole. A new permeability inside the block is created.

A big part of the existing buildings at the interior of the block used to be warehouses and empty spaces used for storage and parking. Given the non-architectural value of these spaces, a big cleaning resulted on the space for the 3 levels of underground parking. The rest of the buildings and the totality of the facades were restored and intervened, in a precise way, to make room for the new program.

The project creates delimited and contained spaces. The program is arranged around two plazas and a central amphitheatre , or mayor plaza, as the articulating space which acts as an inflection of the different heights on each of the fronts and entrances which delimit the project. All the circulations arrive to this space, including the connection to the previous stage of Patio Bellavista.

A new way to inhabit the interior of the block is generated, apart from the activities on the edges, with contained public spaces, open spaces for different uses, which dialog between new and existing buildings, with different characteristics and heights, creating new views and openings in the city, an internal world which invites to visit and contemplate what the city has to offer.

Patio Bellavista becomes a reference of a balanced relation between the urban legacy and commercial reactivation.