Located in Balmaceda, Chile, and just steps from the border with Argentina, the Huemules Complex constitutes a threshold of connection between Chile and trans-Andean territory. In the building converge all the public organisms, of both frontier countries, destined to control the migrant flow of people and vehicles that cross the border. Emplaced in a wide and uninhabited terrain of the Andean Patagonia steppe, the climate, and geography condition the architecture.

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Architects: Cavagnaro Rojo Arquitectos, Crisosto Smith Arquitectos, Jorge García

Location: Complejo Fronterizo Huemules, Balmaceda, Chile

Architects In Charge: Andrés Crisosto, Daniel Rojo, Carlos Cavagnaro, Jorge García

Ingeniero Civil: Jorge Marambio Chavez
Principal: Ministerio del Interior, Chile

Technical Unit: Dirección Regional de Arquitectura, Ministerio de OO.PP, Región de Aysén

Area: 2425.36 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: CRG

Technical Unit: Dirección de Arquitectura MOP, Región de Aysén

Design Tax Inspector: Andrés Villouta

Construction Tax Inspector: Rodrigo Tapia

Principal: Gobernación Provincial de Coyhaique

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Text description provided by the architects. Located in Balmaceda, Chile, and just steps from the border with Argentina, the Huemules Complex constitutes a threshold of connection between Chile and trans-Andean territory...