Sofía Hafon

  Hi everyone, I hope all of you have a great long weekend. Today I’m gonna talk about a subject I enjoy this semester and that it’s “architecture and earthquake”. In this class we talk about the properties of an earthquake, the effects it causes and the different types of systems that we can employ in a structure to resist earthquakes. This subject is really interesting because in Chile it’s important to make buildings to resist earthquakes because we have the Nazca and South American tectonic plates. These tectonic plates in the moment they interact, by the process of subduction, with each other produce earthquakes.  Another theme that I enjoyed in this class was to learn about “The San Ramón fault” because it passes near where I live. This fault crosses through the districts Vitacura, Las Condes, La Reina, Peñalolén, La Florida and Puente Alto. The fault is a vertical ground displacement and generally it is activated when there is an earthquake.  I really like this sub...

  Hi everyone, sorry I'm late, I was too busy those days and I forgot completely. Well today i’m gonna talk about a great expert in architecture and she is Zaha Hadid. She was born in Iraq in 1950 and she died in London in 2016 because of a heart attack at the age of 66.  She lived most of her life in London where she decided to study architecture.  Her characteristic style of architecture was deconstructivism, a style that consists in not following the rules, playing with the different volumenes of a structure, using different geometric figures for a one project and changing completely the composition of the structure of a building. In all of her trajectory as an architect she received three important rewards for our profession, which are: Mies Van Der Rohe in 2003, Pritzker prize in 2004 she was the first woman to receive this reward and the last one is Praemium Imperiale in 2009. Now I’m going to show two beautiful works of her and it is: Fire station in Vitra in 1993 ...

  Hi everybody. I am glad to read you again. :D Today I’m going to talk about ‘How my major can make the world a better place’ As you might know I’m studying architecture at the University of Chile. When I decided to study this career I only thought it’s a pretty career because it’s about buildings and their designs, nothing so elaborate, but now I think It’s a beautiful career because you can make a home for others who need it, make different designs to create a better city with more connection, more vegetation, building a city for the persons that’s all that matters.  In the future I see myself with a group of architects changing the vision of the city, with more green areas for the recreation of the people and the health of us and the future generations with a better air, nature and city. I hope you really enjoy it.