Text description provided by the architects. As a result of the earthquake of September 19th in 2017, with the epicentre in San Felipe Ayutla Puebla, cities and towns in the center of the country were seriously affected. Only in the state of Puebla more than 200 public schools were severely damaged, most of them rural.
A couple of months after the event, we received an invitation from the IENOVA and GDI companies to design the rural primary schools of the communities of Santa Isabel Cholula and San Martín Tlamapa, where the schools had been destroyed. These companies were donors of both projects.
The relationship with the site, the orientation, the prevailing winds, the landscapes, the visuals, the vegetation, the topography and geometry of the terrains, were fundamental aspects of the design. There is a transition from the exterior to the interior spaces through wide corridors that function as porches articulating the project. The interior spaces are physically and visually related to the scale of the children, with gardens and courtyards that weave the buildings together.
© Arturo Arrieta</a>Bioclimatic studies were carried out to make the spaces comfortable during&nbsp;the majority of the time and throughout the year. The choice of materials, the proposal of a passive system of natural cross ventilation in the spaces,&nbsp;skylight and lateral window lighting minimizing the use of electrical energy during the day, were all derived from these studies. In both schools, the rainwater that falls on the roofs is recovered.
PRIMARY SCHOOL JOS&Eacute; MARIA MORLEOS&nbsp;
</a>Located in the municipal seat of Santa Isabel Cholula, the new school was built on the same property as the previous one,&nbsp;aligning the new buildings using the trace of the buildings that were affected, and using the axis of the existing&nbsp;court as one of the compositional axes of the whole project. The north-west orientation favours&nbsp;the cross ventilation.
Because of not having relevant views in&nbsp;the surroundings, the classrooms were arranged around a large central courtyard, articulated by the library to create the heart of the project.
The service&nbsp;facility building was arranged parallelly between the existing&nbsp;court and the access&nbsp;courtyard in order to lessen the presence of the court roof in the&nbsp;walkthrough experience.
The buildings that remained standing were adapted for multiple uses, the administration&nbsp;and the computer rooms.
Located in the town of San Martin Tlamapa, belonging to the municipality of Santa Isabel Cholula, the project was built on a site destined for a new primary school.
This circumstance favoured the location by taking advantage of the view towards the characteristic agricultural landscape of the region.
The classrooms are grouped in blocks of two modules and these are separated by gardens so that all the classrooms have views towards them
The administrative and service buildings are&nbsp;located across the width of the terrain to section the&nbsp;terrain in three common areas: the access courtyard,&nbsp;the&nbsp;civic square and the&nbsp;soccer field
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