School San Andres El Bosque / Gubbins Arquitectos

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  • Architects: Gubbins Arquitectos
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  3535
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011
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  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Durafront, Eljer, Hunter Douglas, MK
  • Collaborator: Pablo Montecinos Leyton, Patricio Pinto, Nicolas Hernández
  • Technical Advisor: Vittorio Barbano
  • Calculation: Sergio Contreras
  • Sanitary Instalation: Patricio Moya
  • Electricity: Concha y Gana
  • Site Surface: 13.216 m2
  • Architects In Charge: Víctor Gubbins Browne, Pedro Gubbins Foxley
  • City: Santiago
  • Country: Chile
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School San Andres El Bosque / Gubbins Arquitectos - Facade
© Pedro Mutis Johnson

Text description provided by the architects. This assignment consisted in the implementation of a school for the town of Maipú. The program considered: classrooms for 1280 pupils, ateliers, administrative areas and inner yards inside the mean volumen of this school. 

There is also an area of courtyards  with gardens, sports fields  and an indoor gym. This school is placed in René Becerra Street, nº 3600, between El Bosque St. and Hernán Diaz arrieta St.

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Is located  in an area noted by the increasing real estate development besides there are agricultural areas in its boundaries. A particular property of this terrain is its surface, 13.200m2 that lets the building  to have big courtyards  and gardens  that make a good school life. 

School San Andres El Bosque / Gubbins Arquitectos - Brick
© Pedro Mutis Johnson

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The building sets in the largest  and main front  of the land with a 4 floor volumen that occupies most of the front. So this the school gets a leading role within the immediate scale and communal context.

Detail

The horizontality of the building gives consistent proportions to set with the vertical rhythm induced by the inner yards partitions. Microwell shades and concrete are the ritmical elements of the school, these two materials are the spatial characteristic of the building. Using live colours  in Windows and shades the building gets an urban identity and presence

School San Andres El Bosque / Gubbins Arquitectos - Windows, Facade
© Pedro Mutis Johnson

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Address:René Olivares Becerra 3600, Maipú, Región Metropolitana, Chile

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Cite: "School San Andres El Bosque / Gubbins Arquitectos" 21 Jan 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/468432/school-san-andres-2-pedro-gubbins-foxley-victor-gubbins-browne> ISSN 0719-8884

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