San Lucas School / Francisco Izquierdo + Maria Jose Varas

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Text description provided by the architects. The San Lucas School is a subsidized private school located near the intersection of two urban highways in Lo Espejo, Santiago, Chile. The school is owned by a Chilean Foundation, focused in giving education of excellence to kids with scarcity of resources, using governmental subsidies and private donations. The Foundation was invited to build the school in the specific site from “Un Techo Para Chile” and “Elemental”, a group led by Alejandro Aravena, in order to complement the housing project to create a neighborhood that could race the reality of the area. The school will be surrounded by the biggest Elemental neighborhood done in Santiago that will cover 50,000 square meters of old camps and waste lands. The aim of the whole project is that it could become an example for other Chilean neighborhoods of how to remake the city with the collaboration of private institutions and local communities that make a good use of the existent governmental subsidies.