Piaget Institute

Mexico City, Mexico

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Piaget Institute

Mexico City, Mexico

Firm

2puntocero-arquitectura

Type

Educational › High School

YEAR

2010

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

Photos

Daniel Rivera (5)

Innovative in the bold use of traditional materials such as pinewood, steel and galvanized plate, this work reflects an eminently efficient personality, conceived to resist the everyday rudeness.

This project consists of an intervention, renovation (recycling) and construction of a secondary school campus.
It is set on a 32,270 sq. Ft. Where an old school was abandoned for several years.
For the project, only one building was renovated while the rest were demolished entirely.
The fabric roof allows practicing sports under its shade through all the year, while the shadow acts as a filter reducing the insulation towards the buildings, since the school has no air conditioning system.
The height of the arches that support the fabric roof is 15 m high, and they “are born” from the top flagstone of the secondary building and they anchor at the level of the courts.
From the beginning, the new building was made to be efficient in its shape, function and maintenance.
The scale of materials proposed for this first operation would mark the rule for the rest of the complex, therefore we decided to raise a limited scale of materials, which would guarantee a low future maintenance, in addition to being resistant to the rough use to which they would be experiencing.
As result we raise the application of a “skin” for the façades that not only would renew the image of the building, but also it would guarantee a low cost for its application and resistance to the use.
The material scale stands out in two basic elements:
• Recovered pine wooden planks of 1 “ of thickness
• Plates of galvanized steel
Floors were finished by means of epoxic resins, which would guarantee its resistance even in the most unfavorable conditions.
The subsequent phases maintain the same scale of materials, adding the apparent concretes in the new buildings as there are the Laboratory of Sciences and the Administrative Area.