Teaching Building, University of O'Higgins, Rancagua Campus

Rancagua, Chile

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Teaching Building, University of O'Higgins, Rancagua Campus

Rancagua, Chile

Firm

N-AA

Type

Educational › University

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2021

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

BUDGET

$5M - 10M

Photos

Daniel pinilla (16), N-AA (4)

The adaptive rehabilitation of buildings that have ended their useful life is an opportunity that we must promote not only due to responsibility in the use of resources, waste management and the carbon footprint caused by the construction of new buildings, but also as a way of valuing the built Heritage and supporting urban memory.
An example of this is the commission to reuse the structure and core work of building B.
of the complex of the old Rancagua Hospital and recondition it for use by the University of O'Higgins, giving a second life to the structure by adapting it as a teaching building suitable for educational use, in accordance with programmatic standards, current regulatory requirements
and the demands of contemporary public building for efficiency, sustainability and economy of means.

The project faces the challenge of solving the architectural program to house university teaching spaces and large classrooms in an existing structure that has pre-established conditions for hospital use that is characterized by organizing compartmentalized spatial units.
The existing 5-story building plus a plinth floor is a structure of rigid reinforced concrete frames that are developed on a 58x24 meter floor plan. based on a grid of ten by four bays with a module of 5.75x5.75 meters. of pillars of 70 x70 cms. to which the project incorporates bracing walls to comply with the current seismic standard.

The teaching building project contains an architectural program of classrooms, science laboratories and offices for teachers, with a high-density occupation, in which the classrooms and teaching spaces are arranged on the outer perimeter of the building and the circulations and service spaces inside in a Mediterranean condition.
A porous spatiality is proposed, which organizes an architectural program with a high flow of students, in which vertical voids are created to spatially integrate the different levels of the building and transparencies are incorporated to visually integrate the room enclosures to the interior space.
This porosity is also reflected in the incorporation of passive natural ventilation systems, which operate through ventilated plinths and partitions to renew the air in the rooms towards the vertical voids driven by a system of solar chimneys.
At street level, the access plaza is recovered and a public floor is configured where a foyer is configured that articulates the vertical circulations and a central circulation that connects to the larger classrooms.
On the upper floors the circulation is configured as a ring whose center contains the service areas and meeting room.

Externally, it is proposed to enhance the existing volume by adapting its image to an educational building and conditioning its envelope to the requirements of energy efficiency and environmental comfort.

The building has been implemented in stages, currently the plinth floor and a new crown floor that will house the offices of the university rector are being executed.

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Teaching Building, University of O'Higgins, Rancagua Campus

Rancagua, Chile

Teaching Building, University of O'Higgins, Rancagua Campus

Rancagua, Chile

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