Sofía Hafon

  Hello again and welcome to this new blog! And I am sorry for being late… Tonight in this blog I’m going to talk about my future job and that's gonna be architecture, the same thing that I'm studying right now. I imagine that I will have my own office of architecture and I will do amazing projects like Zaha Hadid did, and hopefully do these projects with friends that I have known in the university because I think they are marvelous.  Zaha Hadid is my favorite architect because she did a fluid architecture that looks so soft and awesome to the eye, like the picture down below. Also, I think this job will be a kind of outdoors and indoors thing because I must know how is the ground where I’m going to build and also I have to know about the people who live in the area to make a proper project and after that I will be able to make the architecture plans. I see my future job like I said before but also I can imagine the stress associated with this projects but the joy to see the r...

  Hello everyone!  Today I'm going to talk about my pets and my boyfriend’s pet. In all my life I have had 4 dogs and now I just have one, regrettably. First of all I had a German Shepherd called ‘Igor’ . He was with me from when I was 3 years old to 16 years old when he died because he was too old and he was in pain because he developed different health problems because of his age and we decided to euthanize him. It was a difficult time for all of us but it was the right thing to do for him.  Five years before Igor died we got a new dog, it was a poodle, and my brothers and I called him ‘Pipo’ and he was my favorite pet of all I had because we were so close to each other. I spent a beautiful time with him until one day my neighbor’s dog killed him. It was the worst time for me because I thought that I was going to be with him till he goes old but it didn't happen. Pipo Two years before Pipo died we got two German Shepherds, we called one ‘Dinka’ and the other one we call...

  Hi everyone! Welcome back :D Today I’m going to talk about “A building that I admire” and that it’s “Heydar Aliyev Center” by Zaha Hadid. I really love this building because of its curves of the building skin, they are so soft and match with the context flowing with the floor as you can see in the picture. Well, this building it’s located in the capital of Azerbijan called Baku and its program is made of offices, a hotel, a mall, a theater and in the center of the building is a large square to spend a great time with friends and family. The main idea of this building is to represent the sensitivity of the azerí culture and the optimism of a nation to represent the future and the avant-garde in architecture on its lands. Finally, the principal material for this beautiful building and its skin is the fiberglass reinforced concrete and the fiberglass reinforced polyester. These materials were ideal as they allow a high plasticity of the design of the building with its curve...

  Hi guys!  Today i’m gonna talk about the best holidays I’ve ever had in all my life. This holiday was in February 2020. My triplets siblings, some friends and I went to Coquimbo-La Serena, celebrating the end of the exhausting semester of university (especially me because my semester lasted a lot). We went on a bus to the city and we stayed at the house of a friend.  Wetland - “El Culebrón”   The main idea was to stay there for 2 weeks but at the end we stayed 3 weeks because we had some great moments, like visiting the “Culebrón” wetland. It has a lot of ducks, dragonflies, and different types of birds… I took a lot of pictures of that moment but my sister has all the pictures in an HDD and she is not with me now… so I can't post my own pictures, sorry. Also, we went to a pub-restaurant called “El muelle” and they served 1 Kg. of french fries with different toppings and that was amazing and delicious. I highly recommend that place if you can go. The pub-restaurant...

Hello everyone, today I am gonna talk about a country I would like to visit and it is South Korea. -Changdeokgung palace- I’d really like to visit South Korea because I like the language because I feel it is soft to pronounce and easy to learn but the writing can be difficult inasmuch for our different type of alphabet; I like the city because the streets are clean, It is safer to go out than Chile, the streets have a nice lighting and they have interesting monuments and architecture that I want to visit, like Changdeokgung palace, Dongdaemun design plaza and park, Jogyesa temple and more; and I like the food looks really amazing with plenty of seasoning and always accompanied by a plate of rice. I consider it a really interesting culture that we all must visit, learn and respect the life they have because It is totally different in comparison to our country with our customs, language and lifestyle. -Dongdaemun design plaza and park- by Zaha Hadid Thank you for reading and see you next...

  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 ...