BICENTENARY TOWER

Santiago, Chile
Project: 2002
Team consisting of: Sebastián Cerda Pé, Eduardo Carmona Franzani, Aryeh Kornfeld, Daniel Eisenberg

BICENTENARY TOWER

The project is proposed as a revaluation of the urban public space, but this time not understood as a horizontal space but a vertical one, which turns towards the city achieving a different interaction, reflecting our current reality as a city that seeks to grow in height, like as they were at the time the Museum of Fine Arts or the National Library built on the occasion of the Centennial celebration, a reflection of a city that looked towards Europe and intended to be such.

The tower has been conceived as an object of foundation, which follows the same principles of the founding board when oriented according to the cardinal points, thus constituting a guiding element, in a city that has been seen to expand without limits. In this way and thanks to its height, it becomes a primary element in the cognitive map of the inhabitant. The bicentennial celebration is a time for the country to reflect and look to its past, understand its present and project itself into the future.

The proposed project includes this idea through two towers that represent the centuries of history already built, which in turn contain a third virtual and unfinished tower, symbolizing the history to be built.

The proposal provides a solid presence, a symbol of the stability of our young nation, of very clear reading and without major pretensions that of constituting an enduring symbol in the collective memory, a tower that generates a CULTURAL IMAGE.