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Eduardo de la Barra Educational Center
Eduardo de la Barra Educational Center
Peñalolén, Chile
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Eduardo de la Barra Educational Center
Peñalolén, Chile
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
In response to the 2014 social demands for quality public education, the competition brief called for the complete renewal of a 6,500 m² integrated school in a socioeconomically vulnerable urban neighborhood. The goal: to reverse institutional decline marked by rising dropout rates, vacant enrollments, and falling academic performance.
Community dialogues revealed that the CEEB had to be more than a school — it needed to become a Community Center, preserving its cultural identity and social capital. This led us to abandon the awarded preliminary design and start over, co-creating a new project that could be built and operated in three successive phases over two years.
Envisioned as a safe haven from urban, domestic, age-based, and gender violence, the center had to be secure yet visually permeable, a civic symbol of education, health, nutrition, sports, and community. It integrates with its urban surroundings through public atriums, connects functionally to the adjacent sports field, and fosters internal safety through open, supervised circulation. Rather than erase the past, we preserved part of the original building — a gesture of continuity and memory.
Today, the renewed CEEB is filling its vacant seats and improving student performance, the result of a systemic intervention combining educational vision, teaching management, and infrastructure.
Community dialogues revealed that the CEEB had to be more than a school — it needed to become a Community Center, preserving its cultural identity and social capital. This led us to abandon the awarded preliminary design and start over, co-creating a new project that could be built and operated in three successive phases over two years.
Envisioned as a safe haven from urban, domestic, age-based, and gender violence, the center had to be secure yet visually permeable, a civic symbol of education, health, nutrition, sports, and community. It integrates with its urban surroundings through public atriums, connects functionally to the adjacent sports field, and fosters internal safety through open, supervised circulation. Rather than erase the past, we preserved part of the original building — a gesture of continuity and memory.
Today, the renewed CEEB is filling its vacant seats and improving student performance, the result of a systemic intervention combining educational vision, teaching management, and infrastructure.
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