该项目位于哥斯达黎加的一处偏僻场地，四周种满了丝瓜和木瓜等植物，距离La Fortuna de San Carlos的热带雨林仅有15公里的距离。这所学校90%的学生都是来自贫困线以下的移民家庭和单亲家庭。对于大多数学生而言，学校能够为他们带来一个安全的环境，并且每天能保证一顿餐食——这也是阻止他们辍学的一个原因。

The school is located in Sector Angeles, a remote citadel surrounded by yucca and papaya plantations, at only 15 kilometers from the tropical forest of La Fortuna de San Carlos. It’s student population is 90% formed by children of migrant families who live below the poverty level and in a situation of social vulnerability. For most students, the school provides a safe environment and the only complete meal of the day, one of the main reasons that prevents them from dropping out of school, while their parents’s economy, mostly single women, depends on agricultural activities, which are the main source of their livelihoods.

▼学校外观，exterior view ©Fernando Alda

▼入口，entrance ©Fernando Alda

建筑团队对传统公立学校的运行体制进行了反思，希望在单调的绿色景观中营造出一个丰富多彩的视觉环境，使学生、学校领导、员工和家长都能够与校园建立一种积极的情感连接，从而培养大家的自豪感和归属感。

Norte Sur Arquitectos rethinks the traditional school’s institutional presence as the primary visual and cultural image of the traditional public education to create a colorful landmark that disrupts the monotony of the deep green landscape, to allow the students, school leadership, staff, and parents to develop a fresh and positive image of their physical space and an emotional connection to foster a sense of pride and ownership.

▼入口大台阶，large stair ©Fernando Alda

为了能够在炎热潮湿的热带地区（雨季每年会持续9个月）提供一个舒适的学习环境，建筑师采用了被动式的设计，并使用低维护成本的预制结构和材料进行建造。当然，这也是考虑到学校并没有足够的空间去存放施工所需要的材料和部件。

To provide with a comfortable learning environment in a hot and humid tropical region, where the rainy season lasts 9 months a year, the school is a passive bioclimatic structure that allows the building to breath, composed by low maintenance prefabricated systems and low cost materials that come together for construction economy and due to the lack of space to store materials during the construction process.

▼建筑采用了被动式的设计，并使用低维护成本的预制结构和材料进行建造， the school is a passive bioclimatic structure that allows the building to breath, composed by low maintenance prefabricated systems and low cost materials ©Fernando Alda