ESCUELA ROSARIO CASTELLANO – Winter 2000

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Escuela Rosario Castellano
Colonia Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
Juitepec, Morelo, Mexico

Description

The studio’s second public school project in Mexico, the project’s program called from an elementary schoolhouse for approximately 360 students. Some of the challenges the visiting students faced over the course of the project included designing a new facility that met the standards and codes set by Mexico’s Ministry of Education. Learning how to effectively communicate with government agencies along with the local community was absolutely critical in the realization of the project.