HALL OF CHILE
Vista Pavilion at the Exposition
On January 21, 1926 response received by the Chilean government formally accepted the invitation with the desire for a brilliant speech. A decree from the mayor of Seville November 28, 1927, he gave the land for the construction of the building representative.
The pavilion is the winning project, a competition held in 1927 by the Association of Architects of Chile, organized at the request of the Chilean Commission for EIA bases specified in the permanent character of the building and on the ground that has been building.
Through the Chilean press know that the outcome of the competition is welcomed by unanimity, after some modifications. In Chile the cultural vanguard was in search of a national architecture. There was talk of changing the past but look to project the future, these ideas of creating a new order itself but linked to the tradition are collected by the new architects chiles, including Juan Martínez Gutiérrez, winner of the contest and its flag still relying on cultural elements of Chile, acquires a symbolic close to the expressionist art, the volume of the building complex would offer analog image of geography country of Chile.
Vista Pavilion from another angle
In the words of the architect Martínez Gutiérrez, then Decorative Construction professor at the University of Santiago, as reflected in the newspaper "El Liberal" of 1 November 1928, it says "The whole framed in the gardens will play the Chilean spirit without resorting to colonial grounds thereof, but groups of volumes and pieces of sculpture and painting able to suggest the ambience of a village and make us guess culture. Express the placid backwaters of the coast Chilean and daunting terrain of the Andes, composing an almost sculptural gray and white masses, which rise, culminating in the strong tower ... "
The works begin the same year that the competition fails, directing the work its author that comes to Seville October 31, 1927. After many financial difficulties that modify some aspects of the original project, with the resignation of her construction company and architect cease four months before the end of the same row is completed by mid-August 1929.
As stated by Villar Movellán "Chile, which he could spare the money for the work, but did not attempt when decide the grand project designed by Juan Martinez Gutierrez, who get to this mountain of original concrete structure built of foreign competitors. It is a building that would represent the nation in its aspects and in its geography earthquakes mostly "
flag's total area is of 2,687, 5 m2 and sits on a plot of 5,699 m2, the final cost of per square meter site ranged between 250 and 300 pesetas. This is the flag of more extensive exposure on the surface, consists of three storeys high, in much of the entire building and tower 50 meters high.
The levels volumetric
building structure, for the most part, is a framework of reinforced concrete beams and pillars, wrought of the same material in almost all areas. In the main areas is addressed through timbered elements, with coffered notable in parts. The roof structure is based on wood trusses that are inclined and flat concrete in the Andalusian resolved. The columns of natural stone patio are two colors, gray and red, and pre-Columbian monumental cover-type, red like the foreign socket. Large pieces of stone with Indian ornaments had just the flag. They highlight original stucco facade, which, with gray at the base, were becoming as white rose, red being finished off in some areas.
Columbian element of the front door, is covered by the trapezoidal shapes of the openings to decrease the length of the lintel of stone and carved stones of the same in isódomos. Also widely used buttress the country's architecture, as reinforcement to the seismic effects, are used in the pavilion and courtyard facades, modifying and stylized, using its powerful features formal and symbolic reference.
Inside you can see the spatial control mixing volumes with curved lines, forming multiple arches and vaults. In the rostrum in the main hall by a canopy supported on arches and small-scale space in front of the large interior. Other things like the coffered ceiling in the main hall, the base of the ladder and various ornaments and friezes and bars, pick up forms of American colonial architecture.
Precolumbian Decoration the front door.
Despite the interest in Chilean institutions for their representation at the event in Seville, the building was not going well. Because improvements and extensions to the architect had made in the initial project was due to an increase in the budget, 1,300,000 pesos, the Government of Chile took the same increase to 1,500,000 pesos, but the author of John himself Martínez Gutiérrez was removed from the management of work, commending the architect Seville Casto Fernández Shaw, which is committed to maintaining the original design concept. Although efforts were intensified, the flag could not be completed in time for the opening of the exhibition.
With regard to the contents of the sample, had extensive exposure to both private and public. Could distinguish the following sections:
- Section of industry: I had exhibitions in the department of Nitrate and Iodine. On the first had a wealth of information on the extraction and processing. Regarding the second had a collection of 530 iodine pharmaceuticals and their applications and effects on livestock.
There was also heavy machinery, textiles, leather, shoes, etc. In the center was a statement of the school of arts and crafts of Santiago to steel, copper, etc.
- Section of wines, canned food products. He had a broad representation of twenty and forty wineries canning firms.
- Press Room featured a retrospective of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, dean of the South American press and a selection of newspapers and magazines.
- Section tourism. Exhibited photographs of the beaches and landscapes of Chile and provided extensive information about tourism in the country.
- Hall of copper. Was considered the most interesting exhibition halls. Showing the evolution of the metal from coming out until it was converted into an object.
- Section building. Other demonstrations showed map of all the steamship lines that had Chile for foreign trade.
Overview of the lobby, with the start of the stairs, stand, canopy and window.
- Mining Hall. Containing a large collection of minerals.
- Hall of Geography and History. It showed the urban development of Santiago, Chile relief map, a library with old books. Besides reconstructing the ethnological evolution, with topics such as women's lives throughout the history of Chile.
- Section of Fine Arts. Had an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago and contemporary artists, total of 170 paintings and 24 sculptures. These
Chilean painters Thief Laureano Guevara and Arturo Gordon, won first place in decoration and a gold medal, his works are now at the University of Talca (Chile)
current Vista start of the stairs
- Section of Education and Welfare. Teaching the state of education in Chile and new pedagogies.
- Section of roads. Statistics on the routes of Chile.
- Section of forest, fishing and hunting. Exhibited a collection of fish, stuffed poultry and seafood.
- Section of Agriculture and Livestock. Graphics, exhibitions and thematic models.
- Art Section Araucano and popular. This collection of fabrics, pottery and silver Araucana.
The second floor was a hall of views with a capacity of 300 people, on the occasion of the exhibition, a book about Chile in English.
week in honor of the Republic of Chile was held between 21 and 26 October 1929.
Details of the platform and lobby dome .
Details of stained glass and paneled lobby dome now
The Columbus Day 1935, the government assigns to the Andes English building and annexed land for the installation in them of a School of Crafts and Applied Arts, writings and valued at 1,640,375 pts. The flag was during the war hospital, later moving to the intended function as such until today, the embassy consular shared.
Mural Laureano agriculture Ladrón de Guevara, now at the University of Talco
araucana industry Mural Arthur Gordon, currently Talco University
details of the murals of agriculture and mining
View of the courtyard during the exhibition .
An angle of the courtyard stands.
have recently been carried out improvement work inside and outside, such as electrical installation and painting.
In short, the flag of Chile without doubt the most interesting architectural artifact of all who contributed, was one of the few avant-garde between the built for the Iberoamerican Exhibition. While the rest of flags were based on regionalism or indigenismo, the flag of Chile was born with a single purpose, represents the elevations of the Andes and the Chilean coastal plain. This was achieved through a set of volumes that ended in a tower.
distributor View steps
Interior view of the pavilion. A room with their products . THE SPANISH FILM ARCHIVE
edited a book entitled "THE EXHIBITION OF 1929" TO BE PICKED UP IN THE PICTURES OF THE EXHIBITION OF LATIN AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL SEVILLA BARCELONA inserted acontinuación A COMPILATION OF VARIOUS COURTS RELATED TO THIS HALL TO APPEAR ON THIS SITE
SOURCES:
- THE HALL OF CHILE, José Carlos Alvarez de los Corrales Babiano
SURVEYOR No. Journal. 28 / DECEMBER 1988
- American Exhibition THROUGH THE PRESS (1923-1929), Encarnación Lemus López
- HISTORY American Exhibition in Seville in 1929, Eduardo Rodríguez Bernal
- Flags of the Latin American Exhibition, Alberto Villar Movellán
The American Exhibition "Newspaper Municipal Funds"
- the site of the Ibero-American Exhibition, urbanized area, HALLS AND CONSERVATION, José María Méndez
Head Andalucía and America in the Twentieth Century, Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of Andalusia and Latin
1987 - Exhibit Guide 1929-1930
IBERO AMERICAN - American Exhibition "THE NOTIECIERO SEVILLANO"
1927 - American Exhibition "The Liberal"
1927 - AERIAL IMAGE OF SEVILLE ALFONSO XIII (forms and perspectives of urban area 1920-1930), Alfonso Garrido Braojos.
- SEVILLA Pavilion HUNDRED BUILDINGS .- Chile, Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra
Department of Public Works and Transport 1988.
- WEB of the University of Talca (Chile)
- www.sevillasigloxx.com
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