Rancho Acatitlán

This project is located on a 2.5-hectare sloping site with a view of the valley of Acatitlán. Six volumes and five platforms are placed at different heights and “strips” within the terrain to house the interior program and complement the exterior uses of the site. The structure and the modular construction system generate open spaces with clear views towards the front of the site, while at the same time establishing a rhythm for the rear faces of each volume that seeks to give each of them privacy. The repeated structural elements show different environments that, together with the handling of light, differentiates the positioning of each volume in relation to its immediate context, as well as to the views of the valley landscape far off in the distance.

 

Valle de Bravo, Estado de México, 2017

2,015 sqm

Escuela Bancaria y Comercial (EBC), Aguascalientes

This project is located in a growing area of the city of Aguascalientes. The unknown future development of the adjoining lots guided the creation of an inward-looking campus. The campus’s compositional and functional strategy lies in the central plaza’s design: a series of concentric rings radiate outward from this large meeting space, giving meaning and shape to the program and use of the project. The courtyard is subdivided by the Learning Center, creating a multipurpose plaza as well as a contemplative garden for the school’s most public activities. A structural arcade creates the perimeter circulations around the courtyards and is followed by the classroom blocks and the project’s general program. The façade or structural perimeter responds to the use and orientation of each of its parts.

 

Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, 2016

4,474 sqm

Photographs: Onnis Luque & Ignacio Urquiza Seoane

Parque Educativo Querétaro

This “Educational Park” is an innovative concept in Mexico by providing education through encounter and experience. It is a campus that integrates different academic institutions and brings them together in a university community generating spaces of coexistence and synergy.

The project comprises the existing building of the Escuela Bancaria y Comercial, the sports facilities of the Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, and a series of new academic buildings that will house the educational, research, and working spaces of different universities and specialized schools.

The spaces will be flexible and capable of generating synergies between the different specialties, sharing resources and catalyzing the potential of each component of the Educational Park.

Based on the concept of collaborative education and learning, a series of open areas form meeting and study spaces, multiplying opportunities for interaction between the users of the different faculties, and facilitating a university experience enriched by the vitality of this community.

 

Querétaro, Querétaro, 2016

115,043 sqm