The Living Spine is a conceptual urban site design for San Pedro Palcarangan Elementary School, in the agricultural barangay of San Pedro Palcarangan at the western edge of Lubao. Their book analyzes the school’s local connections, existing infrastructure and inventory, and environmental conditions, grounded in the barangay’s demographics.

This is a student design proposal, developed for the LA 4621L capstone studio’s February 2026 study trip — it is a design, not built work.

Their work

• Read their full final design book (PDF, Google Drive) →
• See the whole Lubao project — all four sites and all nine capstone teams →

Their capstone poster

Open the poster in Google Drive →

The site today

From the trip

Video from the February 2026 Lubao studio trip. More footage is on the Lubao hub.