Articles by Valeria Silva

Site. Junshan Island is a small island in Dongting Lake， China. Every year during the dry season, the tidal flat north of the island is covered with reeds, extending to the lake shore thousands of meters away, forming a huge reed swamp. The local organizer invited artists to create artwork in the fields.

Located on land a few kilometers from the city of Curicó. Given the geographical conditions, the integration of both near and distant views is proposed, taking advantage of its proximity to the immediate existing vegetation and the domain of the Andes Mountains.

“The dream house” was how the clients described the property to the Mandril Arquitetura team, led by Helena Kallas and Bruno Reis, as soon as they came across the residence with the characteristics they had dreamed of: being close to the city but with the comfort of the countryside, in a space where they could gather, have contact with plants, and where the dogs could feel free. An old house, but the structure and choice of finishes were very assertive, requiring some adjustments to meet current demands. The original architecture, therefore, remained and the creation of a new annex was included in the project, in a construction that did not break with the architectural style.

When the CEO of Elance Learning Center, a multidisciplinary tuition center with over 5000 students across the coastal state of Kerala in India, approached the architects to design a headquarters rooted in their ideologies within a limited space of around 3000 sqft, the architects had to take a novel approach to the design while maintaining the core values of the given criteria.

A marriage that celebrates 59 years of being together commissioned their mausoleum. He is 82 years old, and she is 80. The site is located in Santiago’s General Cemetery, specifically in Patio No. 61, in a 3.75m x 3.20m plot, with an area of 12 m2.