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Pablo Casals-Aguirre

架构师提供的文本描述。在我们的社会里，我们习惯上把建筑看作一种奢侈，把奢侈理解为有价值的东西，同时又是稀缺的。我们同意该定义的第一个组成部分，但关于第二点，我们作为建筑师可能没有坚持到能够建立一个更好的环境，无论是在中心内外。现在，如果我们像布鲁诺穆纳里那样定义奢侈品，我们就会意识到，一般来说，高水平的建筑生产与不适当地使用昂贵的材料有关，这会产生一个平等的差距，以至于只有那些能够负担得起的人才能利用好的设计带来的好处。

Text description provided by the architects. In our society we customarily perceive architecture as a luxury, understanding luxury as something valuable and at the same time scarce. We agree with the first component of the definition, but with respect to the second point, we as architects have probably not been persistent enough to build a better quality environment, nor inside or outside the Centres. Now if we define luxury as Bruno Munari does, we realize that, in general, high-level architectural production is associated with improper use of costly materials, which produce an equality gap to the extent that the benefits of good design can only be taken advantage of by those that can afford it.

 © Juan Durán Sierralta

(Juan Durán Sierralta)

同样，为了使设计更接近人口的更大比例，我们工作了一段时间，以改善设计质量与成本之间的关系。为了实现这一点，我们从合理的建筑应该定义设计规律的假设开始，因此，我们选择了设计项目来优化低成本和技术简单的建筑系统的材料条件。利用建筑材料的尺寸特性，可以利用材料来减少建筑工程所涉及的时间和成本。

Likewise, and in order to bring design closer to a larger percentage of the population, we have been working for some time to improve the relation between design quality and cost. To accomplish this, we started from the hypothesis that rational construction should define the laws of design and, therefore, we have opted to design projects that optimize the material conditions of building systems that are low-cost and technologically simple. Capitalizing on the dimensional properties of construction materials allows to take advantage of materials so as to reduce the times and costs involved in a work of architecture.

在Hostal Ritoque的案例中，我们对好的、低成本的设计的概念上的关注与客户的愿望和他的预算之间的平衡点是一致的。正如智利经常发生的那样，人们的愿望是崇高的，预算也很紧。虽然行业外人不熟悉建筑成本是正常的，但每个人都希望自己毕生工作的投资能够满足他们想象中的所有期望。

In the case of Hostal Ritoque, our conceptual concerns for good, low-cost design coincided with the equilibrium point between the client’s wishes and his budget. As often happens in Chile, wishes were lofty and budget tight. While it’s normal for industry outsiders to be unfamiliar with building costs, everyone expects the investment of their life’s work to meet all of the expectations their imagination can come up with.

因此，为了降低成本，并且由于项目位于农村地区，我们首先选择了当地的技术和劳动力。换句话说，我们联系了负责该地区建筑类型学的“商人”-锯松木材的简单建筑结构-并根据最常见的当地解决方案创建了建筑技术目录。这一决定使我们得以降低运输成本和建筑利润率。一旦我们熟悉了建筑系统，第二个关键方面就是优化最常见的木材长度的尺寸。此度量定义为影响项目的不同卷的宽度。这一决定本身并没有产生任何节省，而是比大多数建设性要素(2.4米)更大地调整空间的价值。

So, in order to reduce costs and because the project was located in a rural area, we began the project by selecting local technologies and labour. In other words, we contacted the “tradesman” responsible for the construction typology in the area –simple architecture of sawn pine timber- and we created a catalogue of construction techniques based on the most common local solutions. This decision allowed us to reduce transportation costs and construction profit margins. Once we were well versed on the construction system, the second key aspect consisted of optimizing the dimensions of the most common length of wood. This measurement is defined as the width of the way of the different volumes that compromise the project. This decision in itself produced no savings but added value of adjusting spaces to a greater measurement than that of most constructive elements (2.4 m) did.

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(Juan Durán Sierralta)

Hostal Ritoque位于海滩最北端的同名，是70年代发展起来的“开放城市”的瓦尔帕莱索学校。该布局分为5个独立的卷：三个为两层的海湾，一个为服务区有公共空间和一套公寓为业主。它们各自分布在平面图中，以实现它们之间的独立性，以及对景观的最佳定位。

Hostal Ritoque is located in the far north end of the beach of the same name, were in the 70’s was developed the “Open City” of the Valparaiso School. The layout was divided into 5 independent volumes: three for two-story bays, one for service areas with common spaces and one apartment for the owner. They are each distributed in the floor plan to achieve independence between them, and the best orientation towards the landscape.

 © Juan Durán Sierralta

(Juan Durán Sierralta)

Architects Gabriel Rudolphy, Alejandro Soffia

Location Ritoque, Quintero, Valparaíso Region, Chile

Category Hostel

Area 183.0 sqm

Project Year 2014

Photographs Juan Durán Sierralta

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