Architects Rodrigo Duque Motta / Rafael Hevia García-Huidobro
Location Talca, Chile
Client Gran Casino y Hotel de Talca
Interior Design Francisca Varela
Lighting Design Ramón López / Matías López
Constructed Area 15.000 sqm
Project year 2007
Construction year 2008
Photographs Guy Wenborne & Rodrigo Duque Motta
In the exterior facades, a second skin was designed to simultaneously attain various objectives: volumetrically it becomes a sort of “dress” that gives the building unity while subtly revealing its different parts, and allowed larger flexibility to undertake the constant changes requested and introduced while developing the project. Secondly, it presents the building as a large urban lamp that constitutes a Casino image avoiding the superimposition of lit signs over a totally hermetic structure. Thirdly, it behaves as a ventilated façade, diminishing direct sunlight exposure thus improving thermal performance. Finally, this skin defines exterior intermediate spaces by creating a realm of belonging that controls the relationship of the building with its difficult context successfully. It is in this fashion, this intermediate space mediates between the interior and the streets and parking zones; this occurs both in the main entrance and in the two restaurant terraces. In the second level, this spaces amount to a garden-terrace that becomes the foyer to the convention and exposition spaces. At the third level, the space of the large roof garden west of the hotel rooms becomes contained, in its perimeter, by this second skin, thus allowing control of the hotel views by hiding the shopping mall’s roof but permitting further views of Talca.
As for the building’s thermal conditioning, besides this double skin system, thermal isolation for the main parts of the casino and convention spaces was also obtained through the roof gardens described above together with a high percentage of isolated interior-exterior walls. A “free cooling” A/C system was introduced, which acts by stopping mechanical cooling and injecting exterior air when interior temperature is higher, a recurrent situation for this type of program.
Thanks 2 Arch Daily
Location Talca, Chile
Client Gran Casino y Hotel de Talca
Interior Design Francisca Varela
Lighting Design Ramón López / Matías López
Constructed Area 15.000 sqm
Project year 2007
Construction year 2008
Photographs Guy Wenborne & Rodrigo Duque Motta
In the exterior facades, a second skin was designed to simultaneously attain various objectives: volumetrically it becomes a sort of “dress” that gives the building unity while subtly revealing its different parts, and allowed larger flexibility to undertake the constant changes requested and introduced while developing the project. Secondly, it presents the building as a large urban lamp that constitutes a Casino image avoiding the superimposition of lit signs over a totally hermetic structure. Thirdly, it behaves as a ventilated façade, diminishing direct sunlight exposure thus improving thermal performance. Finally, this skin defines exterior intermediate spaces by creating a realm of belonging that controls the relationship of the building with its difficult context successfully. It is in this fashion, this intermediate space mediates between the interior and the streets and parking zones; this occurs both in the main entrance and in the two restaurant terraces. In the second level, this spaces amount to a garden-terrace that becomes the foyer to the convention and exposition spaces. At the third level, the space of the large roof garden west of the hotel rooms becomes contained, in its perimeter, by this second skin, thus allowing control of the hotel views by hiding the shopping mall’s roof but permitting further views of Talca.
As for the building’s thermal conditioning, besides this double skin system, thermal isolation for the main parts of the casino and convention spaces was also obtained through the roof gardens described above together with a high percentage of isolated interior-exterior walls. A “free cooling” A/C system was introduced, which acts by stopping mechanical cooling and injecting exterior air when interior temperature is higher, a recurrent situation for this type of program.
Thanks 2 Arch Daily
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