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FEMAP Nursing School
FEMAP Nursing School
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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Other Projects by Grupo ARKHOS
FEMAP Nursing School
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2018
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
Juarez, Mexico, resiliency is what best describes this city, a border city, bridging North and Latin America, a city of migrants and hardworking people, where resources are scarce, and the environment is harsh. Where cultures merge, and technologies, construction methods and materials are fused in an architecture that expresses that melting pot. FEMAP school is a project inserted in an area desolated and impoverished by crime and lack of public investment, as a mean to transform its surrounding environment, this non-for-profit entity, is aiming to transform thousands of students lives, their families, and the community.
The five story, 48,500 sq. ft. building houses the second of a series of projects on the FEMAP planned campus, the first being the FEMAP hospital, and this building being the Nursing School, which increases its enrollment from 300, up to 1000 full time students.
The program required 9 classrooms, 7 laboratories, computer lab, library, a 250 seats auditorium, cafeteria, teacher’s lounge, a multi use hall, administrative offices and an elevated plaza/roof garden.
The building is bold, expressive, with urban scaled textures and geometry. Nested in a desert environment, the design had to be sustainable and resource conscious. It uses passive technologies that help reduce heat gain, like the ventilated façade that covers the auditorium, louvers on the west facing library, insulation, and efficient low-e glassing. It conserves and reuses water thru a water treatment plant that services toilets and irrigation.
Mechanical equipment was designed with a variable refrigerant flow HVAC system, with individualized, programable control on the different areas. radiant floor heating operated with heat collection solar panels for the library, it will be equipped with a photovoltaic array on the structure over the roof garden, increasing the energy performance of the building and shading the roof top plaza.
Illumination was a key design element, LED lighting was specified throughout the building, the starry sky pattern selected for the library used 300+ light fixtures, with one and five watts LED’s, and in 2700K and 3500K color temperature, to create a more varied random effect.
On the façade, a DMX controller was used to program the different color changing schemes used throughout the year, changing color slowly but constantly during regular days, and as a special theme on certain months, like pink during breast cancer awareness month, red and green during the Holidays, green white and red on Independence Day, etcetera.
The building is seeking LEED for Schools certification, aiming at a LEED Platinum award. It was a challenge to provide an extraordinary energy consumption performance, while giving the project a contemporary innovative look, with the limitations common to Latin American economies regarding budget, material availability, technologies at our disposal and labor quality, always taking advantage of the resourcefulness and creativity of our workers.
We used 55,000 sq. ft. of Reynobond Colorweld 500, in Konig Blue, Copper Penny, Silversmith, and Pewter colors. Paint finishes feature 70% Kynar 500® / Hylar 5000® polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) resins. The panel used was 4mm thick.
For covering the façades, metal was the natural choice, we wanted a tasellated geometry. And the Aluminum Composite Material allowed us to fabricate a 3D texture
with crisp edges and bright surfaces, the walls from the building were covered as a rainscreen creating a ventilated facade.
The structure of the library and auditorium was modulated with the dimension of the 3D panels, so the 3D screen could be fabricated using one standard sized ACM sheet, cut in four pieces, to create the pyramids when folded, this particular job created minimal waste.
Low maintenance, excellent color and gloss retention, durability, were characteristics needed for the building's façades.
The silver colored panels were selected for the 3D textured volume, as the faceted façade creates a kaleidoscopic effect, light and shadow constantly changing during the day as the sun hits the surface, and at night as colored light strikes its sharp urban sized texture and volumes. The green wall, and rooftop garden, transform into a living mural that is blended onto the project. Every time you walk by you perceive it differently, the project is ever changing.
Some of the spaces created for this project have a double purpose. Its educational role, and a funding and economic support. The administration can offer its auditorium, the multi use hall and the elevated plaza and roof garden, to other organizations that have need for event and meeting rooms, and this income helps fund the school programs and maintenance.
The main achievement of this project is its social impact, students and their families have an opportunity to fulfill their goals and dreams, studying on a program with high tech laboratories, with whole body mannequins, and state of the art installations. And the institution having a highly energy efficient building, and with a low maintenance cost, can invest on what really has an impact, it’s programs and its students. Improving directly their lives and their community.
The five story, 48,500 sq. ft. building houses the second of a series of projects on the FEMAP planned campus, the first being the FEMAP hospital, and this building being the Nursing School, which increases its enrollment from 300, up to 1000 full time students.
The program required 9 classrooms, 7 laboratories, computer lab, library, a 250 seats auditorium, cafeteria, teacher’s lounge, a multi use hall, administrative offices and an elevated plaza/roof garden.
The building is bold, expressive, with urban scaled textures and geometry. Nested in a desert environment, the design had to be sustainable and resource conscious. It uses passive technologies that help reduce heat gain, like the ventilated façade that covers the auditorium, louvers on the west facing library, insulation, and efficient low-e glassing. It conserves and reuses water thru a water treatment plant that services toilets and irrigation.
Mechanical equipment was designed with a variable refrigerant flow HVAC system, with individualized, programable control on the different areas. radiant floor heating operated with heat collection solar panels for the library, it will be equipped with a photovoltaic array on the structure over the roof garden, increasing the energy performance of the building and shading the roof top plaza.
Illumination was a key design element, LED lighting was specified throughout the building, the starry sky pattern selected for the library used 300+ light fixtures, with one and five watts LED’s, and in 2700K and 3500K color temperature, to create a more varied random effect.
On the façade, a DMX controller was used to program the different color changing schemes used throughout the year, changing color slowly but constantly during regular days, and as a special theme on certain months, like pink during breast cancer awareness month, red and green during the Holidays, green white and red on Independence Day, etcetera.
The building is seeking LEED for Schools certification, aiming at a LEED Platinum award. It was a challenge to provide an extraordinary energy consumption performance, while giving the project a contemporary innovative look, with the limitations common to Latin American economies regarding budget, material availability, technologies at our disposal and labor quality, always taking advantage of the resourcefulness and creativity of our workers.
We used 55,000 sq. ft. of Reynobond Colorweld 500, in Konig Blue, Copper Penny, Silversmith, and Pewter colors. Paint finishes feature 70% Kynar 500® / Hylar 5000® polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) resins. The panel used was 4mm thick.
For covering the façades, metal was the natural choice, we wanted a tasellated geometry. And the Aluminum Composite Material allowed us to fabricate a 3D texture
with crisp edges and bright surfaces, the walls from the building were covered as a rainscreen creating a ventilated facade.
The structure of the library and auditorium was modulated with the dimension of the 3D panels, so the 3D screen could be fabricated using one standard sized ACM sheet, cut in four pieces, to create the pyramids when folded, this particular job created minimal waste.
Low maintenance, excellent color and gloss retention, durability, were characteristics needed for the building's façades.
The silver colored panels were selected for the 3D textured volume, as the faceted façade creates a kaleidoscopic effect, light and shadow constantly changing during the day as the sun hits the surface, and at night as colored light strikes its sharp urban sized texture and volumes. The green wall, and rooftop garden, transform into a living mural that is blended onto the project. Every time you walk by you perceive it differently, the project is ever changing.
Some of the spaces created for this project have a double purpose. Its educational role, and a funding and economic support. The administration can offer its auditorium, the multi use hall and the elevated plaza and roof garden, to other organizations that have need for event and meeting rooms, and this income helps fund the school programs and maintenance.
The main achievement of this project is its social impact, students and their families have an opportunity to fulfill their goals and dreams, studying on a program with high tech laboratories, with whole body mannequins, and state of the art installations. And the institution having a highly energy efficient building, and with a low maintenance cost, can invest on what really has an impact, it’s programs and its students. Improving directly their lives and their community.
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