Centro de Desarrollo Humano de Matinilla

Overview

Matinilla is a village of 600 residents south of Santa Ana, in the high mountainous area next to the wind turbines. Its center has a school, a church and a community hall. The project sits on a site of about 1,000 m² behind that core and opens toward it to bring the whole together.

The first level adapts to the topography and is organized by a central ramp that connects the hall, workshop, classrooms, meeting rooms and computer labs. On the second level, a plaza contrasts with the steep slope and is reached by a pedestrian bridge. From there one also enters the ground floor. The level is completed by a small sports court, bleachers that double as a lookout and seating areas with views of the landscape.

The center strengthens community development and deliberately opens toward the school, the church and the community hall. It turns the existing ensemble into a connected system of spaces for public life in Matinilla.