Biblioteca + Mediateca Fernando del Paso

Ocotlán, Mexico

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Biblioteca + Mediateca Fernando del Paso

Ocotlán, Mexico

Firm

Jorge Hernandez Luquin
LEAP, Laboratorio en Arquitectura Progresiva

Type

Educational › Other
Industrial › Research Facility

YEAR

2007

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

BUDGET

$50M - 100M

First Place in a Portfolio Competition.www.leap.com.mxOn May 14, 2007, the new
Library and Media Center for the University of Guadalajara (state
university) in the city of Ocotlan, Jalisco, Mexico, was finally
opened to the public. This building was designed by Heriberto
Hernandez Ochoa, Raul Juarez Perezlete (AAD Columbia University
1994), and Jorge Hernandez Luquin, partners of the mexican design
studio LeAP (www.leap.com.mx) with offices in Guadalajara City,
Mexico. This building is a pioneer in the implementation of
standarized norms for accessibility for people with dissabilties; it
has a set of ramps and aisles specially designed to make it 100%
accessible. It will have a collection of 120,000 books, dvds, and
videos in a total surface of 5,346 sqM, making it the biggest public
library in the western region of Mexico, and the second one after the
recently opened Central Library Jose Vasconcelos in Mexico.