Caja de Compensación Building

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The project is located in Talca City, 7th Region, to the south of Chile.

The Caja de Compensación building in Talca seeks to group a series of separate services together within the same building, ensuring their independent operations in a certain way. The programs are very diverse – health area, educational areas, full-time elderly care area and office areas.

The construction of 3 blocks was proposed as the general strategy. A reception block that would allow the circulations to independently access each program, to which two other volumes are connected, one on each side, to form the stay areas.

The program’s proposal for interaction, together with the sunlight conditions for each room, is obtained by separating each of the 3 blocks that form the building, and creating on each of the façades a system of curtain walls structured on wood-laminated columns. These rise throughout the height of each front.

As such, a visual continuity is obtained through the interior façades facing each other. On the other hand, the circulations that connect each of the blocks were structured based on a metallic diaphragm with outer steel plates, in the same way as aerobridges. These are opaque, in contrast to the longitudinal visual interpretations derived from the blocks, and structured on pillars, slabs and reinforced concrete walls.