We conceived Dinamarca as an open space to challenge not only the idea of traditional working space but also searching for a new form of collaboration. Valparaiso is a city with a glorious prosperous past and a fragile impoverished present. Was it possible to invite local innovators to participate and work under the same roof in a declining neighborhood in order to reinvigorate the local milieu? Can Dinamarca incarnate the sign of this alternative form of joining past and future? The idea is to provide a space to help manage and make real the different visions of the creative industries. Conceived as an open cloister for independent production, Dinamarca wants to foster the recovery of an old heritage building as the expression of a professional alternative that cares about the local context. The renovation of Dinamarca 399 is based on a dialogue between tradition and technology, always respectful of the volume of the historic facade built early last century by the Danish consul Mr. Jean Thierry. The contemporary intervention plays with metal sheets of carbon steel that generate flexible and luminous spaces inside the existing structure. In his days, Jean Thierry, widely recognized as a successful doctor and benefactor of the city, ventured to combine the nobility of a double wall perimeter brick with local traditional partitions made on oak and adobillo, the Oregon pine beams and oak slates for the parquet floor. To all this he added an avant-guard constructive material: reinforced concrete. Thus Thierry anticipated a constructive solution to earthquakes.