ALEJANDRO ARAVENA | ELEMENTAL: Innovation Center UC, Santiago / Chile
"...the task was to design a building in which at least 4 forms of work could be verified: a matrix of formal and informal work crossed by individual and collective ways of encountering people.
we thought that face to face contact is unbeatable when one wants to create knowledge, so we multiplied throughout the building the places where people could meet: from the elevator’s lobby with a bench where to sit if you happen to run into somebody that has interesting information to share, to a transparent atrium where you can sneak into what others are doing while circulating vertically, to elevated squares throughout the entire height of the building."
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Completed in 2014 in Santiago, Chile. Images by Nico Saieh, ELEMENTAL | Nina Vidic. In 2011, Angelini Group decided to donate the necessary
