CIMA is a private elementary school project located in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

This building is part of an educational master plan located within a 15,000.00 m2 site, the project has a total of 1,800.00 m2 built.

The idea of the project is to generate twelve classroom blocks distributed in two levels, using a communicating element that transmits depth, at the same time, the linear path generates certain pauses between the educational blocks.

Simple and geometrically clear structure, the honest materiality, pays tribute to the solidity proposed by the educational model of the institution, the facilities exposed inside the classrooms represent the transparency of the education provided.

The geometries of the project are quite clear, the access block serves as a lobby, a rectangular geometry that houses a vertical circulation embraced by a semicircle of the same materiality, but that expresses a certain imposingness through the use of color, without modifying the texture and modulation of the concrete, which is the main element.

Concrete as a constructive and visual element allows us to strengthen the criterion of honesty proposed by the institution, and also provides thermal characteristics that benefit the project, responding to the location.

The design distributes a series of vertical elements on the south and north facades, which frame the different classrooms on the outside, the scheme is linear, but presents a series of breaks between modules, generating openings between volumes, the classrooms have a warmer materiality, such as the use of wood and treatments in neutral colors, mostly white, this without neglecting the use of the raw material "concrete", which is also involved in each classroom in different ways.

CIMA is located in a flat but growing context, that is to say, it is a pioneer in the area. The site has an irregular topography, which we solved by placing the building on the highest part of the site in order to generate plant slopes for social interaction among the students, The issue of accessibility between the different areas was resolved by means of a ramp between the different platforms of the project, the ramp acts as a distributor element between different spaces, with an easy route and at the same time generating a visual disruption.

 CIMA is a project designed and developed with a practical, honest and simple scheme, where the user has an easy reading of the building, where the complexity is represented through constructive details, it is also a project that reflects certain values of the institution within its spaces.