Project Details
- Project Name
- Universidad Católica de Chile Mathematics School
- Location
- Santiago, Chile
- Client/Owner
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Project Types
- Education
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 21,528 sq. feet
- Year Completed
- 1999
- Shared by
- Selin Ashaboglu
- Team
- Architects: Alejandro Aravena + Luis Lucero
- Project Status
- Built
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
"A mathematician is a machine of transforming coffee into equations.” We thought that joke, expressed one of the dimensions by which knowledge is produced: the casual encounter of people. Besides the coffee room, we identified the corridor as a design opportunity, as the moment where you see other people before they disappear into the isolated retreat of the individual working unit. We decided to add the new building to two existing ones, so that after the operation we had fewer elements than at the beginning.