About 3 kms from the city center, away from the urban grid, stands the Casino and Hotel Ovalle, founding a citadel in the middle of the valley of the Limarí. As well as the ancient inhabitants of the valley settled to the interior of the gullies; real cracks that striped the central plateau of the valley, this intervention aims to constitute a new gully on this new site. This crack seeks to give refuge through its nooks, which generate a sequence of indoor and outdoor spaces that are hidden from the outside traffic and tracks, favoring the calm and rest.

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Architects: Turner Arquitectos

Location: Ovalle, Coquimbo Region, Chile
Design Team: Patrick Turner, Josefina Vergara, Gastón Fuenzalida

Collaborator Architects: Rodrigo Mardones, Isidora Puelma, Andrea Borraez, Julián Elorrieta y Jasmin May

Area: 14020 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Felipe Díaz Contardo

Owner: Ovalle Casino Resort

Calculations: Rafael Gatica

Construction: Mena y Ovalle

Landscape: Jadue - Livingstone

Lights: Estudio Par

Weather: IPC CLIMA

Sanitary: Urbano Proyectos

Electricity: REHLEC

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From the architect. About 3 kms from the city center, away from th...