School of Artistic Initiation / ORIGEN 19º41'53'' N

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Text description provided by the architects. The School of Artistic Initiation, located in the city of Uruapan, Michoacán, aims to establish itself as a contemporary space for children and adolescents to learn, practice, and perform the arts. The building seeks to foster a meaningful cultural management of the performing, visual, and participatory social arts, prioritizing the relationship between people, art, and nature. A building mass with "dynamic" facades and vertical windows with a 1:5 proportion establishes formal and luminous rhythms, metaphorically evoking the sustained and flat notes of a piano, creating a subtle emancipation of architectural form within a functionalist, austere, yet rigorously resolved building.