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Maria Montessori School is Located in Mazatlán; a city in the Pacific Coast that maintains a humid and high temperature climate great part of the year, invites to think about an architecture that in principal faces climate and consider the high degree of salinity of the site.The strategy for this school should aim to both minimize the impact of heat in the classroom; this without losing natural illumination and relation to the outside, as well as the use of materials and constructive system that were little prone to corrosion.
Courtesy of EPArquitectos, Estudio Macías Peredo – Photographs : Onnis Luque

Mazatlán, a city on the pacific coast has a high temperature, high humidity weather most of the year, that invites to think on an architecture that solves this and considers the high levels of salinity. The strategy should propose to minimize heat impact on the classrooms, without loosing natural light and exterior relation, as to use low corrosion construction systems. Courtesy of EPArquitectos, Estudio Macías Peredo – Photographs : Onnis Luque

The project sits on a plot with one fasade to the city, that enables conditions to develop an interior controlled landscape. A children´s village introspective to its own patios.
Courtesy of EPArquitectos, Estudio Macías Peredo – Photographs : Onnis Luque

The Montessori model is not a conventional education system, so classrooms should facilitate di...