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.

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Architects: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

Location: Puente Del Comun, Chía, Cundinamarca, Colombia

Author Architects: Daniel Bonilla, Marcela Albornoz.

Design Team: Juan Felipe Herrera, Mauricio Méndez, Alexander Roa, María Paula Gonzales, Cesar Grisales
Area: 16093.0 m2

Project Year: 2012

Photographs: Rodrigo Dávila

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From the architect. 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.

Master Plan

Each HUB is configured trough a group of classrooms surrounding a central space known as an “Extended Learning Area” (EL...