Cette
exposition s'intéresse au Stade national de Santiago, qui accueillit, le
29 septembre 1979, 37 000 personnes venues de toute part de la capitale pour recevoir leur titre de propriété grâce à l'opération publique d'hébergement Sitio, mettant fin à des années d'occupation de terrain improvisée.
L'ouvrage revient sur cet épisode historique qui a fait d'un stade à la fois un monument et une ville, le temps d'une journée.
“Stadium” is the theme chosen for the Chilean Pavilion at the 2018
International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The intent
is to capture the story of the National Stadium in Santiago—both a
building and a city for a day. On September 29, 1979, 40,000 families
filled the stadium’s seats; around 250,000 people from all over the
country’s capital. The occasion was the signing of documents that
transformed these people into proprietors. Prior to the event, the press
circulated a list of names of the people summoned to the
stadium—beneficiaries of Operación Sitio, a public housing
program—together with a plan that showed the stadium subdivided into
boroughs.
This book tells the dual story of the stadium and the exhibition at the
Chilean Pavilion, interwoven with the Architecture Exhibition’s broad
theme of “Freespace.”
The book is organized into four chapters, each featuring short essays
and illustrations, including drawings, plans, and photographs. In the
making of the exhibition, the stadium’s floorplan no longer demarcates
the stands but visualizes another city marginalized from its center.
Each section is extruded as a block, engraved with the urban fabric of
the fragment of the city from which it originates. A timely contribution
to a continuing conversation, Stadium will be welcomed by architects,
urban planners, and those who provide housing.
