FLACSO CAMPUS - ECUADOR

Christian Wiese

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Biography

Christian Wiese is a young architect with professional practices, both in Europe and in South America. Christian Wiese Arquitectos was founded in 1999. Since then the firm has accumulated several important achievments, winning more than 15 local and international architecture contests. Among those are:

• CTBUH (Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) 2014 Project Finalist with The Point Building, the tallest building in Ecuador (137.09m) located in Guayaquil.

• Premio Ornato (Quito Municipality) 2013 Project Finalist in Urban Equipment Category with FLACSO Library Building located in Quito.

• Premio Ornato (Quito Municipality) 2004 Overall First Place with FLACSO Headquarters Building located in Quito.

• Miami Architecture Biennial 2009 Gold Medal with Urban Plaza Building located in Quito.

Christian Wiese Arquitectos is considered, thanks to this achievments and finished projects, among the top architects in Latin America, working in colaboration with the most recognized promoters.

Christian Wiese is also well known for changing the skyline and the landscape of architecture with urban developments like “Ciudad del Río”. Most recently he was commissioned to plan the Swissotel Towers, which will rise to a total height of 160 meters. Both projects located in Guayaquil- Ecuador. His architectural practice is developing at the moment several private projects for his favorite German city, Hamburg.

FLACSO CAMPUS

ARCHITECT: CHRISTIAN WIESE
OWNER: LATIN AMERICAN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
CITY: QUITO
COUNTRY: ECUADOR

The architectural elements of the new FLACSO Campus (Latin American School of Social Sciences) are defined by three programmatic elements: FLACSO Building, International Organizations Building, and the Convention Center. The direct contact points of these elements with the city is given by a public space, focal center of urban and student life. The metaphor about the proposed open access to knowledge, is reflected in the main entrance plaza that has a gesture of openness to Quito. This access marks the longitudinal hierarchy within a perpendicular axis from the street, which evokes the notion of ritual, myth and monument. The entrance to the convention center happens through a courtyard with peripheral circulations, as in a colonial cloister, which binds the complex to a recognized typology in the traditional architecture of the city. The International Organizations Building has a direct and immediate access from the street. The whole campus opens to an urban square and park, which hosts some of the cities most important cultural activities and exhibitions. A glass atrium unifies the public spaces at different heights and also includes a horizontal point of contact that provides personal interaction within the complex. The program establishes a system of rational ideas that express parameters of order, light and transparency, structured in a tripartite organization of the facade plan. The new FLACSO Campus has 180 parking spaces and a convention center with auditoriums and classrooms for more than 600 people.

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