Energy and Territory: Production Infrastructures in Chile

Energy and sustainability, Essay, Formats, Low Density, Territory and mobility, Topics, UMWELT, Urban Paradigms

Agriculture, Biodiversity, Chile, Climate, Collective identity, Community, Drought, Ecological researches, Ecosystem, Energy, Energy production, Essay, Extreme conditions, Extreme environments, Geography, Geothermal system, Industrial context, Landscape, Multiscale approach, Research, Solar Energy, Solar radiation, Territory&Mobility, Topography, Tourism, Water infrastructure

This work was developed from 2016 onwards in the context of a series of studios, workshops and seminars led by UMWELT and Pilar García Alfonso at the MARQ (Master in Architecture) and MAPA (Master in Landscape Architecture) at the School of Architecture of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

As a consequence of its geography and climate, Chile has some of the best places for the installation of renewable energy production infrastructures in the world. From the driest desert with the highest solar radiation in the north, to the flow and power of rivers born in the Andes meandering down to the central valleys, and the glaciers and the tides of the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of the continent.