Nueva sede oficinas centrales FINSA

The new building that connects the existing offices of Finsa is built as a common place
for the different workers of the company and the visitors. A space for the meeting that
gives the headquarters of the company a more open and modern representative
image, and puts in value the industrial and material origin from which it comes.
The proposal is based on simplicity of approach, organization and composition, with
open and flexible spaces. It is intended to print to the building a character of its own
and in keeping with the philosophy of the company.

We opt for a regulatory grid, that generates and orders (generating and ordering) the
space, the scale, the program and the relationship with the exterior and natural light; A
free plant of great versatility. The square module, 3 x 3m, equally power the two
directions creating a dynamic space, without marked alignment, underlining its
centrality and whose dimensions are suitable to generate the different meeting areas.
In this grid, which is expressly visible and marked by the structure of laminated wood,
two perforations are included: the staircase and the patio, which hierarchize and order
the free floor around them, in the two levels of the building. Both elements also
increase the verticality of the building and fulfill a double function: to expand the spatial
perception of the ground floor and to connect both plants physically and visually
through visual suggestive diagonals. In addition, numerous roof skylights contribute to
improved natural lighting and the quality of the spaces, introducing abundant light
diffuse in the grayest days of Santiago.

In the building we opted for the predominant use of the wood in a generalized and
visible way: laminated wood structure, forged sols and boards, floors and finishes in
false ceilings and paneling. The different structural and constructive elements are
arranged and articulated with the least possible redundancy of materials and solutions.
The volumetric simplicity is extended to the design of the facades, which are projected
with glass closures, without visible carpentry, to enhance the feeling of "connection"
between the two existing buildings, as well as between the visits, the landscape and
the exterior Of the enclosure, with the building itself and the factory.

Functionally, the building does not contain jobs or departmental areas. On the ground
floor is the lobby, the reception and a multipurpose space as a stand. The first floor
features a large "square" delimited by various meeting rooms of different sizes and
multipurpose furniture to accommodate multiple meeting formats.
The intervention in the outer areas is concreted in the resolution of accesses, slopes
and local agreements, and especially in generating a more natural environment, with
trees and more friendly and pedestrian nature in the surroundings of the new building
that will extend in future phases to Rest of the environment.