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FAE Building / Faculty of Administration and Economy of University of Santiago of Chile
FAE Building / Faculty of Administration and Economy of University of Santiago of Chile
Santiago, Chile
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FAE Building / Faculty of Administration and Economy of University of Santiago of Chile
Santiago, Chile
Project Featured on Sep 30, 2025
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
In 2015, when MARSINO Arquitectura was asked to respond to the high demand for space for the Faculty of Administration and Economics (FAE), the response was clear: if the university was going to continue growing, the most sensible thing would be to consolidate a high-density focus on the outskirts of the campus. Thus, ending the model of vertical growth by substitution and protecting the patrimonial fabric.
Where for years there was a surface vehicle parking lot, today a 13,150 m² building stands. A campus within the campus that for MARSINO Arquitectura meant an opportunity to validate on a large scale the idea of the “helical ambulatory”: a design strategy applied in several educational projects carried out in the last 20 years. Specifically, it is an architectural device that, through a continuous oblique plane around a central space, promotes the casual teaching and learning process beyond the formal classroom. The spiral route prolongs the walker's journey, while providing meeting spaces between classrooms and access points.
The project is made up of 3 underground levels, a 6-story spiral undergraduate plate and a 6-story superimposed tower of offices for academics (today transformed into postgraduate rooms). The spring-like scheme of the plate forgets the Cartesian axes to invite you to live a “body consciousness of permanent transformation”, present in the work of Claude Parent. (Melamud, 2019) Beyond rooms joined by a ramp, it is a single continuous and oblique space that ends in stepped patios that give room for extensions.
FAE looks like an office tower, but also a circus tent. Its heterogeneous and unfinished image in the manner of a collage, incorporates popular references from the urban collective imagination in the commune of Estacion Central: the commercial spiral and the escalator, but also the circus and the road infrastructure, together with the aesthetics of militant muralism. with black edges and planes of saturated colors, always present on campus.
Where for years there was a surface vehicle parking lot, today a 13,150 m² building stands. A campus within the campus that for MARSINO Arquitectura meant an opportunity to validate on a large scale the idea of the “helical ambulatory”: a design strategy applied in several educational projects carried out in the last 20 years. Specifically, it is an architectural device that, through a continuous oblique plane around a central space, promotes the casual teaching and learning process beyond the formal classroom. The spiral route prolongs the walker's journey, while providing meeting spaces between classrooms and access points.
The project is made up of 3 underground levels, a 6-story spiral undergraduate plate and a 6-story superimposed tower of offices for academics (today transformed into postgraduate rooms). The spring-like scheme of the plate forgets the Cartesian axes to invite you to live a “body consciousness of permanent transformation”, present in the work of Claude Parent. (Melamud, 2019) Beyond rooms joined by a ramp, it is a single continuous and oblique space that ends in stepped patios that give room for extensions.
FAE looks like an office tower, but also a circus tent. Its heterogeneous and unfinished image in the manner of a collage, incorporates popular references from the urban collective imagination in the commune of Estacion Central: the commercial spiral and the escalator, but also the circus and the road infrastructure, together with the aesthetics of militant muralism. with black edges and planes of saturated colors, always present on campus.
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