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Quinta Monroy / ELEMENTAL

Completed in 2003 in Iquique, Chile. Images by Tadeuz Jalocha, Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma. The Chilean Government asked us to resolve the following equation: To settle the 100 families of the Quinta Monroy, in the same 5,000 sqm site that...

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2003

Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile

Social Housing

residential social housing housing pritzker prize top100 concrete Social Housing

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Alejandro Aravena

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Alejandro Aravena

bureau · Panguipulli, Los Ríos Region, Chile

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ELEMENTAL

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