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Liceo Franco Mexicano

Liceo Franco Mexicano
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LICEO FRANCO MEXICANO

Alberto Kalach

CATEGORY
High School

LOCATION
Guadalajara, Mexico

YEAR
2005

ARCHITECTS
Alberto Kalach, Juan Palomar, Héctor Módica

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The composition of the complex separates two typologies: the classrooms and the comunal spaces.

Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani

The bodies that contain the communal space are austere and well lit between greys and metallic whites.

Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani

The classrooms are resolved with an angled and folded roof that appears to receive the weight of the yard and produces a semi-buried state.

Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani

The roofs create artificial hills and offer different perspectives of the gardened horizon.


Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Liceo Franco Mexicano
© Yoshihiro Koitani


Liceo Franco Mexicano
Plan and Elevation

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