Right under the sun of the dry, Mediterranean weather of the Chilean capital Santiago, in the middle of a large campus park, stand the new facilities of the digital research department of the Catholic University of Chile. The building comprises student halls, auditoria, classrooms, a cafeteria and a series of offices for the people in charge of the whole of the university’s digital affairs; according to the client’s request to the architect, Alejandro Aravena, it should be a clear technological statement and a sign of the modern times that have arrived on campus: hopefully a slim, glazed tower.