SHINE’s Tec de Monterrey Retrofit Maximizes Natural Light and Ventilation With Parametric Modeling

This isn't the first time that <a href="http://shinearchitecture.com">SHINE Architecture</a> has been given a disused space in México and transformed it into an inspiring new educational center - previously the team designed <a href="http://inhabitat.com/retrofitted-mexican-entrepreneur-center-maximizes-performance-with-a-parametric-pine-facade/">a school for underprivileged children</a>. Their latest retrofit on the Tec de Monterrey Campus in León is a blank slate in which architecture and design students can launch their wildest creative ideas. And thanks to extensive pre-construction <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_model">parametric modeling</a>, the project is assured to receive the maximum amount of daylight and natural ventilation.

This appendicular space provides a transition between indoors and outdoors at this retrofitted building in Leon, Mexico

Pre-construction parametric modeling ensured the optimum amount of daylighting and natural ventilation

This is not the first time that SHINE has retrofitted a building on the ITESM campus

An interior atrium provides additional daylighting and natural ventilation

Flake glazing creates diffused daylighting

SHINE Architecture strives to keep the use of new building materials to an absolute minimum

The new architecture and design studio a study in bioclimatic architecture

A closeup of the Flake glazing

This space helps to create shade in an otherwise punishing environment in Mexico

It has a unique steel structure and uses sustainable wood