A place to
learn and create.

The school opens
to the city.

The extension to the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design brings new classrooms and spaces for experimentation beneath the structures of a former garage in Santiago’s República neighbourhood.

The existing roofs are retained and transformed into covered courtyards for making and exhibiting. A new street frontage gives the school a visible presence in the neighbourhood: architecture as a setting for learning and a connection between the arts and the city.

Filter the sun.
Keep the view.

The west-facing façade has a second skin of factory-made, folded pre-painted steel sheet elements. Their folds provide solar control while preserving views of the surroundings, bringing together shade, daylight and a connection to the city.