GELM Annex / Díaz Paunetto Arquitectos

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Text description provided by the architects. The project involves a second commission from the Guardería Ecológica La Mina. Like the first commission, the structure was in a state of neglect for 20 years, where it was once part of a set of structures devoted to vocational training facilities and then volunteer corps. The building was used as a sports and recreation hall on the first floor and cosmetology salon on the second. The structure is a typical module of pre-designed concrete used by the Department of Education for school expansions since the 1960s, with a second floor in block walls and a wooden roof that was completely collapsed when we arrived at the project. Being an ecological school, the building footprint should remain unchanged and so it was not demolished, even though this idea was tempting, instead the school was completely recovered.