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Consistorial De Constitución /
PLAN Arquitectos
Constitución Town Hall building was
conceived not only because of the need
to unify all local government offices
in one building but also as part of the
reconstruction of the city, which was
devastated by an earthquake in 2010. The
building is located in the civic center and
adjacent to Current Town Hall building,
which should be remodel.
The city has a particularity compared to
other medium-sized cities in central Chile,
because, in front of its "main square",
it has an equal sized site, open and
walkable, called "The Civic Center ", which
is transformed into a complex of two
connected spaces visually unified.
The virtue of this is that an open place
originates and, therefore, drivable and
observable from many points of view,
being a noninvasive project to the
current morphology of the place.
In this "Civic Center", our project is
defined a separate series of volumes
and shapes isolated among themselves,
where the existing building is located.
A number of circulations unify these
volumes, including the existing building,
allowing access to the town hall
departments from different locations,
resulting in a better versatility and
approaching to the building by users.