cultural matrix-a cultural space in the periphery Part 2 Project 2003 Alejandra Celedon ForsterMatthew Gatehouse University of Chile | Chile The project is located in the main south metropolitan sub-center of Santiago. The projects sostains in Culture and Periphery, two kinds of transformations that affect the contemporary cities. The matrix is a hybrid of a media center, a library and a central cultural exchange. The Matrix inserting in the site with a neutral and pure shape, in order to not contribute to the formal and aesthetic chaos in the area. There are two strategies of intervention:1_The block is intervened through a bending operation, working the emptiness in order to its vocation of civic centr of the district.2_A cube suspended in the space as a sign, gives significance to culture in it process state, in its everyday condition, accesible for everyone. Alejandra Celedon ForsterMatthew Gatehouse This project has an interesting condition resolving a metropolitan subcenter lot, using a newer view about the peripheral conflicts in Santiago. It articulates several pedestrian traffic ways and resolves them into a great central space, incorporating culture activities, and giving to the city a totally adapted and atractive building. Tutor(s)