Mexican design studio Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica and architects Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez and Camilo Moreno have completed this concrete business school on a lush site near Mexican city Aguascalientes.
The campus marks the latest outpost of Mexican business school Escuela Bancaria y Comercial (EBC). The institution, whose name translates as Banking and Commercial school, was established in Mexico City in 1929, and has since expanded across the country.

Mexico City studio Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónica (CCA) collaborated with architects Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez, and Camilo Moreno to design the new 4,475-square-metre building for a plot on the outskirts of Aguascalientes.
The EBC Aguascalientes building comprises a series of concrete volumes that are arranged around a large planted courtyard. The team chose this inward-facing campus arrangement because the future use of surrounding lots is unknown.
The architects have enclosed the lush garden with covered areas that are intended to create spaces for casual encounters, in replace of classrooms.
"The central concept supports the idea that the most important space on campus is the space provided for the coexistence and natural interaction of the users," said CCA in a project description.

"This space is the meeting space, understood as the vacuum resulting from the most logical, practical, functional and flexible accommodation of the traditional parts that make up the campus."

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