Article source: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

With approximately 16000m² of buildings and 21000m² of exteriors and landscape design, the Rochester School’s Master Plan aimed for a strategy which reflected its own concept of academic community. Thus, as a premise, the HUBS (grouping system) appeared, looking for an educational model that integrate teachers and students disregarding grades and therefore fading out the traditional hierarchy of school formation.

Image Courtesy © Rodrigo Dávila

• Architects: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos (Daniel Bonilla y Marcela Albornoz)
• Project: Rochester School
• Location: Chía, Colombia
• Photography: Rodrigo Dávila
• Owner: Rochester School
• Design team: Juan Felipe Herrera, Mauricio Méndez, Alexander Roa, María Paula Gonzales
• Students: Cesar Grisales
• General direction: Oikos
• Interventory: PAYC
• Structural design: SOYC Ltda

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