As I promissed, here goes some pics I shot to Altamira High School in Santiago de Chile.
It was the first work by chilean young architect Mathias Klotz (Year 2000). With this work he was the winner of Borromini architecture prize in Italy (2001).
The buiding is located in the east side of Santiago , Peñalolén Comune, Del Acueducto street (see plan).
I was delayed a little in showing this pics, because when I went to see that work, with my son that studies architecture, my digital camara did not have enough battery. Luckily I had another film camera so I had to wait for the processing and scanning.

How to go there
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Santiago:

At the end of Grecia Avenue, You``ll find El Acueducto streeet, then turn to right and go for about 100 meters.

The roofing steel sheating you can see over the diagonal bacing are not from the original projet. The manager ordered to put it beacuse the roof concrete slab was cracked a little and rain was going down.

The gym

Pic #3

Class room wing corridor

Hill side stair
The school is located in a sloped hillside, in the skirt of Los Andes Mountains to the Far East of Santiago.

What here appears like patio is in truth the ceiling of the gymnasium, that is against slope of the hill
The slab has some light eyes, but thecnical detailing of this features are quite poor and failed soon.

Patio and north classroom wing

Patio and South class room wing

South wing corner

gym roof -patio Ramp

Double high space

Corridor

View to gym from corridor

North corridor. The watch man toldme that pupils call to the school "The jail" :)

Space between Gym and north wing

Same space. Ramp goes to gym level

General view from east. Sorry about being in the pic.

i found some plans and sections of Altamira High
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i102/tadijana/planlevel3.gif
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i102/tadijana/presjeci.gif
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i102/tadijana/presjek.gif

Thanks mates, to Nadpossum for adding the plans and to Digdoi for independize the thread.

Thanks for sharing these pictures. I knew this building from magazines but your pictures make more evident its brutal character, with the "corbusian" concrete and the raw detailing. It creates an interesting contrast with the colourful walls that separate the classrooms from the corridors. The main feature, however, is the inclined plaza over the gymnasium and the way it is contained by the two classroom wings, really powerful.

And of course, the kmz, thanks mate!

and the image...

Primo "Ojo de Águila" (eagle`s eye) You located it Immediately

Thanks for posting. Do you think you can edit your first post to include the actual address of the school as well as when this was built?

:cheers:

Santiago is in Peru? I know it is, but please include the information in the complete address. Some of us are a little slow... (no names)...

Who is the architect?

Thanks for your post, a very interesting building

EDIT: oops sorry that I missed the large text on the map stating "CHILE"

Thanks for posting. Do you think you can edit your first post to include the actual address of the school as well as when this was built?

:cheers:
First post edited
Sorry about missing information, but this post was extracted from Mathias Klotz Thread by Digdoi

Santiago is in Peru? I know it is, but please include the information in the complete address. Some of us are a little slow... (no names)...

Who is the architect?

Thanks for your post, a very interesting building

Mathias Klotz is the architect, PPB thread (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=488&highlight=mathias+klotz)
Santiago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago,_Chile) de Chile is the capital of Chile.

I've seen this school in magazines before and it looked much more beautiful, but the true to life pictures here make it look a bit shoddy. I'm disappointed. Corbusiers concrete was sometimes rough but not shoddy (the Unite pilotis (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showpost.php?p=85858&postcount=5) also posted today).

I also think that if the students are calling their school a prison that's a bad thing :(

I guess that was why i asked when this was built to be included. I am quite surprised by the real photos of this building.

Mathias Klotz is the architect, PPB thread (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=488&highlight=mathias+klotz)
Santiago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago,_Chile) de Chile is the capital of Chile.

I've seen this school in magazines before and it looked much more beautiful, but the true to life pictures here make it look a bit shoddy. I'm disappointed. Corbusiers concrete was sometimes rough but not shoddy (the Unite pilotis (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showpost.php?p=85858&postcount=5) also posted today).

I also think that if the students are calling their school a prison that's a bad thing :(
Aside from the gymnasium slab problem, that is filtering water towards the interior, the concrete did not seem to me so bad . It is necessary to consider that the school already has six years of use. The obtained spaces, are very interesting and until challenging, when one crosses them.
May be my pics have not been sufficiently succesfull in showing this work

Great stuff, cheers for the pics

I think a great deal of roughness was intended by Klotz (the choice of materials makes that obvious), but there are quality issues with the construction. Knowing other of his works from magazines that seem much better built, I would say it's more likely to be the builder's fault. Still there are clearly uncontrolled aspects, like the orange walls at the start of the inclined roof terrace, it's hard to tell what happened there.
Nevertheless, I think the project resists rather well to the poor build quality, and that is the result of a very strong idea behind it.

thanks for the sections, I wanted to ask. when I have time this weekend, it`s possible, then I will make a "Klotz school Sketch" and share and upload. For a dialogue.:D



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Then give me a tip to my bank in Switzerland.:D - no just a joke!

i was told that there were some problems because i uploded the pictures at photobucket so here there are again :)

longitudinal sections

and another section

There is a video (http://www.0300vd.com/2007/05/20/colegio-altamira/) of COLEGIO ALTAMIRA by Mathias Klotz at 0300VD.

Thank's Takesh h!
Great link!
i have known that, you have some good data!

nice building - pity about the quality of the images - what camera did you use? was it an SLR?

For the last pics I used a very fine Cannon SLR APS sistem with Cannon 28 -150 objetive. The poor images are due to bad scanning.
The first pics were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5 mega pixel Digital camera.

here some more photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/casg/sets/72157594284815260/