Architects
Nicolás Matzner Weisner
Christian Matzner Thomsen
Construction Company
Nelson Rebolledo Ribotta
Date of construction
February 2007
Built Area
100 m2
Location
Av. Pajaritos 2689 – Local 10
Maipú, Santiago, Chile
This Librería Nacional stationery store is one of the many which have a help yourself-asisted autoservice style within its 100 m2 area. To make this possible, the store has 4 central metallic gondolas, a metal and crystal counter to receive purchasing customers and a series of metallic shelves placed along the walls to contain papers and supplies.
As for the stowage of employees personal affects and the safe keeping of large canvases, a multi-functional piece of furniture was designed. It's a shelf that stocks canvases and tubes to hold blueprints and floor plans, and (simultaneously) is a door to a storage room.
Since this store is within a Strip Center, the construction materials are mainly porcelain stoneware, drywall, melamine, bars of oregon pine, tempered and laminated crystal, sheets and profiles of steel, sheets of acrylic and metallic, bell-shaped halide illumination equipments.