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架构师提供的文本描述。2011年，安吉里尼集团决定捐赠必要的资金，以建立一个中心，公司、企业和更多的整体需求，可以汇聚到研究人员和最先进的大学知识创造。其目的是促进转让技术、查明商业机会、增加现有资源的价值或注册专利的进程，以提高该国的竞争力，从而提高其发展。智利卡托利卡大学(Universidad Católica de智利)将主办这样一个中心，并在其圣华金校区分配了一个地点。

Text description provided by the architects. In 2011, Angelini Group decided to donate the necessary funds to create a center where companies, businesses and more in general, demand, could converge with researchers and state of the art university knowledge creation. The aim was to contribute to the process of transferring know-how, identifying business opportunities, adding value to existing resources or registering patents in order to improve the country’s competitiveness and consequently its development. The Universidad Católica de Chile would host such a center and allocated a site in its San Joaquin Campus.

我们为满足这些目标而提出的建议是，设计一座至少可以核查4种工作形式的建筑物：一个正式和非正式工作的矩阵，通过个人和集体的方式与人打交道。此外，我们认为，当一个人想要创造知识时，面对面的接触是无与伦比的，所以我们在整个大楼里成倍地增加了人们可以见面的地方：从电梯大厅，如果你碰巧碰到一个有趣信息可分享的人，就坐在那里；在一个透明的中庭里，你可以潜入其他人正在做的事情，同时垂直地流通。整个建筑高度的高架广场。

Our proposal to accommodate such goals was to design a building in which at least 4 forms of work could be verified: a matrix of formal and informal work crossed by individual and collective ways of encountering people. In addition to that, we thought that face to face contact is unbeatable when one wants to create knowledge, so we multiplied throughout the building the places where people could meet: from the elevator’s lobby with a bench where to sit if you happen to run into somebody that has interesting information to share, to a transparent atrium where you can sneak into what others are doing while circulating vertically, to elevated squares throughout the entire height of the building.

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扭转典型的办公空间平面图(用透明幕墙玻璃周边取代不透明核心，以一个具有战略意义上开放的质量的开放核心取代)不仅是出于功能原因，而且也是对建筑物的环境性能和特性的反应。

The reversal of the typical office space floor plan (replacing the opaque core with transparent curtain wall glass perimeter by an open core with the mass strategically opened in the perimeter) responded not only to functional reasons but to the environmental performance and character of the building as well.

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(元素)尼娜·维迪奇

这座建筑必须响应客户的期望，即拥有一个具有“当代面貌”的创新中心，但对同时代的不加批判的探索，在圣地亚哥的玻璃塔中堆满了玻璃塔，而由于沙漠气候的当地条件，在内部有着严重的温室效应。这样的塔在空调上消耗了大量的能量。避免不受欢迎的热量增长的方法不是火箭科学；它足以将建筑物的质量放置在周边，有凹槽玻璃以防止直接的太阳辐射，并允许交叉通风。通过这样做，我们从每年120千瓦/平方米(圣地亚哥一座典型玻璃塔的消耗量)上升到每年45千瓦/平方米。这种不透明的外观不仅在能量上有效，而且还有助于减弱通常迫使保护室内工作空间的极其强烈的光线-窗帘和百叶窗-实际上，理论上的初始透明度变成了一种纯粹的花言巧语。在这个意义上，对背景的反应只不过是严格使用常识。

This building had to respond to the client’s expectation of having an innovation center with a “contemporary look”, but the uncritical search for contemporariness has populated Santiago with glass towers that due to the desert climatic local condition have serious greenhouse effect in interiors. Such towers spend a huge amount of energy in air conditioning. The way to avoid undesired heat gains is not rocket science; it is enough to place the mass of the building on the perimeter, have recessed glasses to prevent direct sun radiation and allow for cross ventilation. By doing so we went from 120 kW/m2/year (the consumption of a typical glass tower in Santiago) to 45kW/m2/year. Such an opaque facade was not only energetically efficient but also helped to dim the extremely strong light that normally forces to protect interior working spaces with curtains and blinds transforming in fact, the theoretical initial transparency into a mere rhetoric. In that sense the response to the context was nothing but the rigorous use of common sense.

 Ground Floor Plan

另一方面，我们认为创新中心面临的最大威胁是过时；功能和风格过时。因此，对玻璃幕墙的拒绝不仅是因为专业人员有责任避免极差的环境性能，而且是为了寻找一种经得起时间考验的设计。从功能的角度来看，我们认为对抗过时的最好方法是设计建筑，就像它是一种基础设施，而不是建筑。一种清晰、直接甚至强硬的形式最终是允许不断变化和更新的最灵活的方式。从文体学的角度来看，我们认为用一个相当严格的几何学和强大的整体物质性作为一种方式来取代潮流的永恒。

On the other hand, we thought that the biggest threat to an innovation center is obsolescence; functional and stylistic obsolescence. So the rejection of the glass facade was not only due to the professional responsibility of avoiding an extremely poor environmental performance, but also a search for a design that could stand the test of time. From a functional point of view, we thought the best way to fight obsolescence was to design the building as if it was an infrastructure more than architecture. A clear, direct and even tough form is in the end the most flexible way to allow for continuous change and renewal. From a stylistic point of view, we thought of using a rather strict geometry and strong monolithic materiality as a way to replace trendiness by timelessness.

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Architects Alejandro Aravena | ELEMENTAL

Location Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Category University

Project Team Alejandro Aravena, Juan Cerda

Collaborators Samuel Gonçalves, Cristián Irarrázaval, Álvaro Ascoz, Natalie Ramirez, Christian Lavista, Suyin Chia, Pedro Hoffmann

Area 8176.0 m2

Project Year 2014

Photographs ELEMENTAL | Nina Vidic, Nico Saieh

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