Ignacio Zañartu

By the end of 2013, PARALELA starts as an architecture and urban design studio with the association of Jose di Girolamo and Ignacio Zañartu, both architects graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica (UC), synthesizing their work and experience in different fields and scales of architecture, urban design and academic work. The team is completed with other young architects graduated from UC, with relevant working and/or academic experiences. Teamwork inside the studio is based on a horizontal way of working, understanding that all members contribute in a balanced manner, not only from their experiences, but also from the debate of ideas, building proposals and projects from a collective perspective. The work has been mainly focused on the development of housing, urban and facilities projects, in a permanent search of an architecture with social impact, especially for whom experience the projects and their environments daily. Concrete results of this search are Hamlet building, winner of the Urban Contribution Prize in 2017; the winner proposal for the international competition for designing La Pampa de Alto Hospicio masterplan in 2015; and the winner project for San Francisco Chapel in 2018, which prototypes have been built in different Chilean locations entirely by undergraduate volunteer students.