Design studio Sasaki has completed a minimalist white pavilion and a glazed library for a growing university in Monterrey, with terraces that offer generous views of the city.
The Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, often referred to as Monterrey Tec, is situated on an urban site in the capital of Mexico's northeastern state of Nuevo León. The institute has 29 campuses around the country, with the Monterrey location serving as its flagship.

The library and pavilion are part of a larger masterplan conceived by Sasaki, a multidisciplinary firm with offices in Boston and Shanghai. The firm was founded in 1953 by the late landscape architect Hideo Sasaki, who was born in California and taught at Harvard.
In 2015, the firm was commissioned to rethink the university's educational model and to develop its spatial expression. The team devised a programme called the Tec 21 Educational Model, which addresses new ways of teaching and learning, the use of digital tools, a commitment to society rooted in humanitarianism, and the importance of interdisciplinary and collaborative learning.
"The work included thinking at both the level of the overall campus environment to more detailed work at the scale of the learning environment," the team said.
"The latter included developing a toolkit of spaces that could be deployed on existing campuses, or in the planning of new academic buildings, to assist the university in implementing the new pedagogical model across existing i...