San Gines Cultural

Center
AUDIO-VISUAL ROOM

RUCHIRA- 01FA18BAT044
SANJANA WALI - 01FA18BAT049
VINFRED - 01FA18BAT062
KOMAL - 01FA18BAT073
SURABHI - 01FA18BAT075
 San Gines Cultural Center
THEATRE & PERFORMANCE, CULTURAL CENTER
PROVIDENCIA, CHILE

•Architects: Cristián Boza Wilson, Florencia Escudero, Francisco Danus, José

Macchi
•Area: 1869 m²
•Year: 2009
•Manufacturers: PRODEMA, Hunter Douglas
•Lead Architects: Cristián Boza Wilson , Francisco Danús, José Macchi

Structural Calculation:Ernesto Hernandez M.

Floor Mechanics:Jorge Ramirez P.
Sanitary Installations:EBSA
Lighting:Paulina Sir
Acoustics: Leonardo Parma & Asociados.
City: Providencia
Country: CHILE
• Between the slopes of the San Cristóbal hill and the Mapocho river lays the
emblematic Bellavista neighbourhood. Between heritage houses and cites and
continuous facades, there is a void within the block on the street Mallincrodt.
This is a result of a fire that made the old San Ginés theatre of the Sáenz
family disappear. As a cause of the event, the owners find it necessary to re-
build the theatre with more force and with an integral vision, relating it
directly to the neighbourhood and its people.

• The aim of the project is to build the pre-existing void in the block that was
damaged due to the violent fire, using a large monolithic volume that is
structured through a large void. The building is structurally constituted as a
succession of rigid concrete frames generating a large box that enhances
total spatial fluidity inside, erasing the boundaries with the outside.
• The foyer as the centre presents a game of visual relationships animated by
the theatre, the stairs, the bridges and the concrete beams. It is the
concession of the theatre and its anteroom.
• It is the place of convergence and exhibition. It is the intermediate space that
filters the interior of the show hall with the exterior.
• It is a buffer animated by people in constant movement.

• The building programmatically consists of a theatre for 380 people, offices,

multipurpose rooms, dressing rooms and kitchens.
• It also has a large terrace with a view that ranges from the metropolitan park
to the hills in the west.
• The venues are capable of being in operation simultaneously at different
times during the day, turning the building into a great machine of cultural
production for the Bellavista sector.
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THEATRE LEVEL PLAN
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