The extension is proposed on the existing two-level building, creating the third level for the open workshops and generating a new space to the entire existing building.
The existing building built in 2001 did not respect the Master Plan originally proposed by us and from the beginning it was incorrectly oriented, facing west, so it is a challenge to respond to the visuals and opening to the gardens, and at the same time, cut and protect from the sunlight of the west.
A large space generates and articulates this extension, along the entire envelope that ends in a large lattice inclined to the west. It is a space where common and study activities are carried out freely. A system of co-work, co-study, co-learn, where the space flows freely and allows other diverse and even different activities such as exhibitions, events, celebrations. A dynamic, innovative space.
This large space is resolved through the management of light. A series of inclined signs crossed by mullions allow the passage of light, cut off the path of the sun and generate a climb and ascending rhythmic treatment. It rethinks the scale of the existing building and surrounds it, generating the third level, open, free, flexible. A continuous space with a multiplicity of uses, from drawing workshops to exhibition spaces.
The gesture of formal continuity with the existing buildings on the Campus is generated by the large inclined lattice, alluding to pre-Hispanic architecture and acting as mullions to the sunlight. The formal treatment is a response to the language that has been generated for 40 years in the Campus buildings.
