IN DIALOGUE WITH THE RHYTHM
Park Jiyoun (Park): Transforming this educational facility in Santiago, Metropolitan Lyceum, into a Community Center and CESFAM through extensions and renovation, you’ve created a project roughly twice the existing area, which is about 5,499m2 . What made you decide to work on such a huge extension project?
Luis Vidal (Vidal): We are a practice accustomed to working on large-scale healthcare projects, of which the Matta Sur Community Center + CESFAM (hereinafter Matta Sur Complex) is one. To our mind, the bigger the intervention, the bigger the challenge and opportunity to demonstrate a responsible attitude towards a given urban context and heritage. The result here was an unprecedented building refurbishment that
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