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Share In May, the Hospital Clínico performed the 33rd liver transplant surgery among adults, a procedure that has reduced the waiting lists of patients who need an organ in Chile. Without a living donor, almost 40 percent of them die before reaching the ward. Raúl Morales was twelve when he told his mother, Rosa Pino, diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, that he would donate her liver. But no one paid much attention to him at the time because, he says, “you couldn’t either.” Rosa was part of the list of patients in Chile who wait for years for an organ from a deceased donor.

© Ignacio Rodríguez García Text description provided by the architects. The Xochitlali house is a middle-class house, located in an informal neighbourhood of Mexico City where self-construction and progressive housing predominates, generating a gray and unfinished image in the entire neighbourhood. The clients requested a home that in spite of being in a small area of 139 m2 needed a broad program as well as having as much open space as possible. For this reason, the project comes up from the purpose of keeping at least 2/3 of the land as open space between the ground floor and the second ...