Article source: SURCO Arquitectos 

The opportunity to rebuild on the same site allowed that along with the building was proposed to reorder an establishment that grew up without an apparent programmatic order according to age; Thus focused on the new building the entire administrative and curriculum, previously scattered program at the College, in addition to rooms of attention of parents and the main entrance to the College, thus replacing a precarious access and a few classrooms, a place with a more public condition under the logic of the place where it is inserted.

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• Architects: SURCO Arquitectos
• Project: Curricular administrative building Lycée María Auxiliadora
• Location: O’Higgins and Kurt Möller Corner facing Plaza de Armas, Linares, Maule Region, Chile
• Photography: SURCO
  
• Architect in Charge: Juan Paulo Alarcón Carreño
  
• Contributors: Felipe Alarcón Carreño
  
• Promoter: MINEDUC Reconstruction
  
• Predominant materials: Reinforced concrete in sight, Steel, Glass D.V.H., Steel corten and Pine wood radiata
  
• Land area: 367,7 m²
  
• Constructed area: 735.4 m²
  
• Year of project: 2011
  
• Year of construction: 2011

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