Remodelación República, Residential complex in Santiago Centro, Chile

Remodelación República is a residential complex in Santiago Centro with two overlapping residential blocks containing 282 apartments total. At the intersection of Avenida República and Blanco Encalada, the blocks connect through commercial spaces at street level and a semi-sunken commercial area accessed via a central courtyard.

The Corporación de la Vivienda launched a public competition for a housing complex in Barrio República, a former aristocratic sector that had declined since residents moved east in the 1920s and 1930s. The winning design by Vicente Bruna Camus, Víctor Calvo Barros, Jaime Perelman Ide and Orlando Sepúlveda Mellado was built as the first residential complex under Santiago's urban renewal subsidy, raising the sector from 150 to 1,000 inhabitants. It won Best Work of the Year 1969, Housing category, from the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile.

The design received an Honor Distinction from the College of Architects of Chile in 1969 for its innovative approach to residential living. The four architects who created it helped establish new standards for how people lived together in the city center.

The two blocks stand on an L-shaped plot of 12,366 square metres, with the commercial platform half-sunken below the residents' plaza. Access to the blocks is through that plaza, and the perimeter is fenced off from the surrounding streets. Green space has shrunk from 9,215 to about 4,000 square metres as parking took over.

Only floors 1, 3, 6, 8, 11 and 13 have access corridors; the other floors are reached by half-level stairs from these landings. The triplex flats run east-west, so reception and bedrooms face opposite sides of the block.