With new constructions underway, TCS campus is running out of empty space for buildings and projects to be developed.

Although TCS has the biggest campus in Antioquia, 21 acres to be exact, the school is running out of land to build, as most of the spaces have already been reserved for future projects or have already been built on.

“When one looks at the blueprint, they always ask,  there is still a lot of green left? But in reality the school no longer has any green zones,” said Elen Yepes, financial and administrative manager.

When looking at the original development plans created in 1999, many of the projected plans have already been developed leaving space for only a few projects. Although it could be said that there is still a lot of land and space left due to the campus being so extensive, most of it can’t be used.

“All of this is a forest area, and we can’t touch it,” said Yepes.

The space around the water reservoir can’t be used because of new rules and laws that were recently implemented by the government. This space was previously going to be used for the school’s second entrance but now has to be left as it is.

“The [soccer] fields can’t be touched,” said Yepes

The fields all around the school have been under investigation to see if they can be built on but the school learned that although the soccer fields are the ones that take up the most space, they are crucial for students across all ages, starting from k4 and going all the way to 12th grade.

“Yes it can be used, and in the original blueprints it’s planned to make the great school theater, but it pains us a lot,” Yepes said.

The space Yepes is talking about is the grass next to the high school colosseum which students use everyday both at the start and at the end of school but also through window and lunch. As this space has a high demand there is no chance for there to be some type of project built.

“Here [in the car bay grass] maybe, but still the inclination of this makes it for us not having much of a choice,” said Yepes

Although it seems as there isn’t any space left, there still might be hope for new projects to be developed. As a last resort, the land next to the car bay can be somehow modified for a building to be able to be developed.

“From what I see using the grass from the car bay would seem like a very costly project both financially and time consuming,” Lucas Hall, a high school sophomore stated his opinion.

You don’t need to be an expert to be able to see the complexity of building a project in the car bay grass, meaning that the school must optimize space as much as possible, as they are already doing with old plans being modified and the construction of the new administration building.

“Although it feels as if the school is far from running out of space, when you really look into it and think about it there is no land or space left,” Hall said.