© Cristobal Palma
With a population of more than 400,000, Piura is the fifth-largest city in Peru. Its location on the Pan-American Highway, the north-south route linking Tierra del Fuego with Alaska, makes it an important regional centre, especially in the field of education. The Roman Catholic University of Piura (UDEP) takes this goal seriously and has opened itself increasingly to less affluent students from the rural hinterland.
The lecture hall facilities that became necessary as a result were conceived by Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse in the form of a spatial micro-organism that encourages interdisciplinary exchanges, while at the same time resisting the hot, dry desert climate.
The lecture hall facilities that became necessary as a result were conceived by Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse in the form of a spatial micro-organism that encourages interdisciplinary exchanges, while at the same time resisting the hot, dry desert climate.