建筑學院

建筑師/Architects: Alejandro Aravena， Lorena Andrade

合作者/Collaborators: Juan Jose Hurtado， Carlos Bisbal， Armando Bahamondes， Luis Lucero

項目/Project: 2004

建設/Construction: 2004

建筑面積/Built Area: 1500 m2

預算/Budget: 每m2100美元/ US$ 100 x m2

我們接手一座90年代早期建筑的改建設計。對整幢大樓提供殘疾者通道，除此之外，我們不得不在大樓的一頭容納一些辦公室，拆除一些非法規劃，我們有每平方米100美元報酬和3個月時間。

我們分析學生們不愿呆在學校是因為他們學習的場所太大，個人設備的控制和安全沒有保證，如今，幾乎每個人都用電腦工作；所以我們決定把設計容納15個學生的房間辟出原來寬的一半，創造出只給7個學生的空間大小，讓他們可以更簡單地安排自己，更有效地取得想要的安全性。

反對者之一認為這么做減少了光線進入，但最終還是贊成了，因為它避免了光線反射在屏幕上帶來的不舒服感。

由于時間和金錢的問題，為做外殼我們決定調查研究智利的水果包裝行業，在那里我們發現了一些鋅制板，如果它被注入膨脹的泡沫聚苯乙烯，可以變得有抗力和平滑。除了價格便宜，它們還被證明非常的輕（造起來簡單而快速），一裝便成。

新外殼的反射能力最終以最好的方法來尊重古老的泥磚房子，因為它能讓樓房瞬間消失。

Architects were asked to intervene a building done in the early 90's， in order to bring back the students to work in school. Besides that， architects had to: host some offices in one of the building's end， demolish some scales that were illegal and provide access to handicaps in the entire building. We were given a $100 dollars per m2 and 3 months of time.

Our diagnosis was that students were not working at school due to the size of the studios. Today， almost everybody works with a computer; with rooms designed to host about 15 students， control and security for everybody's equipment was not guaranteed. So we decided to divide those rooms in half of the original width creating a space for just 7 people， who can organized themselves easier， achieving more effectively the desired security.

One of the cons people saw in doing that， namely the reduction of the light coming in， ended up being a pro， since it avoided the uncomfortable reflections on the screens.

This change in the working space， meant a change in the way studios were traditionally used as well; production and “pin-ups”were unable to happen in the same room，as it used to be. Studios were going to be just to work；“pin-ups”were going to take place in the space created between the“old building”and the new regular box that wraps around the preexisting articulated shape.

Having a problem of money and time we decided to investigate the Chilean fruit packing industry for doing the skin: there we discovered some zinc plates that if injected with expanded Styrofoam were able to acquire resistance and smoothness. Besides being cheap， they proved to be extremely light (so easy and quick to build) and finished once installed. The absence of time was in the end the way to meet the costs.

The new skin's capacity to reflect ended up being the best way to respect the old adobe house， because it has made the building capable of disappearing in the corner of the eye.