The Saint George´s College is located at the foothills of Cerro Manquehue, in the Vitacura neighbourhood, Santiago de Chile, in the middle of a forest that is maintained thanks to the microclimate of a place enclosed under the hill. This school, designed in the 70's by the architect Gustavo Munizaga, responds to a campus typology, with programmatic volumes scattered among the trees, covering the entire terrain and having the hill always present as a backdrop. The original idea takes the option of streets, hallways and squares, where circulations and volumes that compose the classrooms are arranged at the height of the trees foliage.

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Architects: Gonzalo Mardones V. Arquitectos

Location: Vitacura, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Author Architects: Gonzalo Mardones V., Gonzalo Mardones Falcone, M. Jesús Mardones Falcone

Area: 7600.0 m2

Photographs: Nico Saieh, Skye Chapman

Engineering Calculators: Ruiz y Saavedra Ingenieros.

Lighting: Paulina Sir.

Technical Inspection: Juan Eduardo Mujica.

Constructor: Proyekta

Landscaping: Go Green.

Client: Colegio Saint George.

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From the architect. The Saint George´s College is located at the foothills of Cerro Manquehue, in the Vitacura neighbourhood, Santiago de Chile, in the middle of a forest that is maintained thanks to the microclimate of a p...