Fintual Headquarters Palacio Droguett / Studio Cáceres Lazo

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在过去的十年，智利的初创公司几乎成为了地区的主要组成部分，雄心勃勃的政府项目再结合一代年轻的创业者让这个位于南美的国家成为了全球知名的新兴创业家聚集地，并且诞生了许多有趣且成功的客机产品，Fintual公司便是2016年成立的新兴公司，它们于2018年定居于此，该公司的目标是通过技术以及与客户直截了当的沟通策略、健康的幽默氛围，从而建立起金融投资工具和大众之间的桥梁，到2020年，他们为4.7万客户管理的资金已经超过4.25亿美元，相较于前一年的7千名客户4400万美元的数据有了大幅度的增长，因此他们也需要更多的团队成员和更加宽敞的工作空间。

Text description provided by the architects. Over the last decade, Chile’s startup scene has positioned itself as one of the leaders in the region. Ambitious government programs mixed with a booming generation of young innovators have turned the small South American country into an internationally renowned hub for emergent tech entrepreneurs, reaping an important number of interesting and successful technological products. Fintual is one of those groups of entrepreneurs—founded in 2016 and live since 2018—their goal is to bridge the gap between financial investment tools and the general non-savvy public, by way of technology and a candid and straightforward strategy of communication with their clients, sprinkled with a healthy dose of humor. As of 2020, they manage funds for 47 thousand clients at more than 425 million USD—a big jump from the 7 thousand clients and 44 million the year before, which meant they needed more people on their team and eventually a bigger space.



许多人都在Droguett宫生活过，1931年，著名建筑师Sergio Larraín García-Moreno为一个富裕的家庭设计了一座城市住宅，这座拥有12间卧室、面积达1400平方米的建筑在80年代初期成为了城市中的一座主要建筑，而当时的家族继承者则将其改造成了活动场所，在哪个时候，300平方米的二层室外露台上覆盖着玻璃和钢拱顶，让建筑拥有了特殊的形态，因而得名为“玻璃住宅”。

The Droguett Palace has lived many lives. An urban residence for a wealthy family built in 1931 by famous architect Sergio Larraín García-Moreno, the 12-bedroom, 1400 sqm building became one of the city’s staples in the early 80’s when the family heirs transformed it into an event venue. At this time, its huge (300 sqm) 2nd-floor outdoor terrace was covered with the glass and steel barrel vault that would give it its characteristic look and earn it the moniker “The Glass House”.



2011年，建筑关闭了大门，并且作为办公与协作空间，其服务对象最初是一个全球企业，后来则服务于由智利政府所运营的初创公司。

In 2011 the venue closed its doors and started a new life as an office and coworking hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, first for a global conglomerate and later for StartUp Chile, the country’s government-run startup accelerator program.



2020年8月底，在全球疫情肆虐之际，智利的圣地亚哥刚刚解封，建筑师们通过一次项目竞赛，受邀在Droguett宫设计Fintual的新总部，该项目将分期开发，一期是位于建筑二层的主要办公区域，这里需要容纳大约40至60名员工，并且拥有多种工作方式，包含有传统的格子间，再到私人与团队电话会议，除此之外还有休闲的客厅和咖啡馆，因此这里是一个有趣的工作空间，同时反应公司的企业文化，业主还希望其中种植有植物。

In late August of 2020, in the midst of the global pandemic, just as the city of Santiago was coming out of a 4-month-long lockdown, we were commissioned—through a brief private competition—to design the headquarters of Fintual at the Droguett Palace, which they had just leased. The brief was straightforward. The project would be developed in stages, with the first one being the main office floor located on the building’s second level. Needing to accommodate 40 to 60 employees at all times, the project was to provide multiple ways of working, from conventional desk work to hot desking, private and group conference calls, as well as more laid-back living room and coffee shop type situations. It had to be a fun space to work in and it should reflect the horizontal culture of the company. And they wanted plants. Lots of them.



不过有个问题，那便是项目进展较为快速，项目的第一阶段在10天之内就完成，这是一个竞赛阶段，设计内容主要是曾经的室外露台，而现在覆盖了玻璃拱顶，Fintual总部也称之为“花架”，整个空间内部的质量良好，因此修改措施很少，但是需要较多的家具。

There was one caveat, though. They needed to move in fast. The general scheme for this first stage was developed in 10 days—during the competition phase—and concentrated primarily on the former outdoor terrace now covered with the barrel vault of glass, or “pergola” as Fintual calls it since the interior of the palace needed less of intervention and more of furnishing because of its already superb spatial qualities.



该项目的预算较为紧张，因此建筑师和客户达成了共识，那便是应用低成本但却不失优雅的美学特征，平衡经济与昂贵的花费，这就如同公司的创始人Pedro说的那样，“可以穿一件便宜的T恤，再搭配一条昂贵的牛仔裤”，木材的应用就是个很好的例子，虽然这并不是最廉价的木材，但是其色彩很温暖，让空间家具看起来一致且抽象，就如同实心的家具一般拥有质感，但是在仔细检查的时候还是能够发现一些小问题。

Working within a tight building budget, it was established early on with the client that we were looking for a low-cost but elegant aesthetic, balancing the cheap with more expensive accents, or “like wearing a worn-out T-shirt with some expensive jeans” as Pedro, one of the company’s founders, once told us. The wood provides a good example of this approach, while not the cheapest wood available, it has a nice warm color and is free of knots, giving the furniture a more homogeneous and abstract look, like a solid piece, while on close inspection the on-site fabrication would reveal slight imperfections and a certain rustic quality.





整个空间呈现无烟煤黑色，削弱了曾经公共设施网络、绝缘泡沫板，以及穿过天花板的结构所构成的视觉影响，同时也和建筑内部的白色形成对比，甚至起到了特别的视觉效果，建筑中露台原有的豪华白色水磨石地面覆盖着廉价的工程地板，在拆除覆盖物之后，它依然完好无损，只是需要一定程度的抛光和密封，由于Fintual公司需要尽快使用该空间，因此建筑师们花费了一定时间来构思施工文件，最终决定将施工过程划分为两个阶段，首先是较为潮湿的操作阶段，那么在这个时候使用者便无法使用该空间，除此之外还包含粉刷整个二层区域，并且抛光露台，以及建筑一侧的地面，然后是清洗阶段，那么这就包含了场地内外家具和电网的设置，除此之外还有周边的空间。

The whole space would be painted anthracite black, to cancel all the visual noise produced by utility networks, insulation foam boards, and the array of girders and structures that run through the ceiling and make a stark contrast chalk-white interior of the palace. The finishing touch was a stroke of luck. At some point in the building’s life, the terrace's original luxurious white terrazzo tile floor was clad with cheap photo-laminated engineering flooring. But after removing the coverings: there it was, all complete and in decent condition, all it needed was a thorough polish and sealant. Since Fintual needed to move in quickly and we needed time to develop construction documentation, we divided the construction into two: a wet and dirty phase—meaning all the work that cannot be done with people using the space, including painting the entire second floor and polishing both the terrazzo as well as the beautiful parquet flooring on the palace side—and a clean phase—involving both on-site and off-site fabrication of the furniture and power network, while working around Fintual using the space.



即使目前有着一些现存的问题，例如严格的交通管制、城市封锁、国家建筑材料的短缺，当然还有全球疫情的影响，但是这里的各个人员都能适得其所，这已经是项目的成就所在，除此之外，该项目还探索了传统建筑中所存在的现代问题，同时表达了Fintual总部的核心创新内容和前瞻文化，结合设计策略，让整个项目获得良好的回报。

That everybody involved made it work despite strict transit restrictions, lockdowns, curfews, a national shortage of building materials, and of course a global pandemic, seems like an achievement already. But the project is as rewarding by exploring contemporary architectural issues on heritage buildings, and hit-the-ground-running strategies to design while celebrating the innovative and forward-thinking culture at the core of Fintual.











建筑设计：Studio Cáceres Lazo
类型：适应性再利用 办公室内
面积：500 m2
时间：2020年
摄影：Bruno Giliberto
主创建筑师：Gabriel Cáceres, Daniel Lazo
设计团队：John Miller, Tomislav Mimica, Diego Melero
建造：Julio Hernández
城市：Providencia
国家：智利

ADAPTIVE REUSE, OFFICES INTERIORS
PROVIDENCIA, CHILE
Architects: Studio Cáceres Lazo
Area: 500 m2
Year: 2020
Photographs: Bruno Giliberto
Lead Architects: Gabriel Cáceres, Daniel Lazo
Design Team: John Miller, Tomislav Mimica, Diego Melero
Construction: Julio Hernández
City: Providencia
Country: Chile