![Incubadora Social ITESM-BANCOMER / Shine Architecture - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5017/2502/28ba/0d23/5b00/106a/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414061004)
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Architects: Shine Architecture
- Year: 2011
Text description provided by the architects. This refurbishment intends to offer a new quality-based, morphological-exploration for a social entrepreneurship incubator in a low-income area in León, Guanajuato, México.
![Incubadora Social ITESM-BANCOMER / Shine Architecture - Fence](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5017/2524/28ba/0d23/5b00/106e/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414061018)
The initiative of these social interventions is lead by two main institutions: Tecnológico de Monterrey (one of the best private universities in México) and Bancomer (one of the main banks of the country). This projects has two aims: the first is to provide low income people with the best quality of higher education, thus, the same received by the students in university classrooms, just in a virtual way. The second is helping people to develop their own business, supported by experts.
![Incubadora Social ITESM-BANCOMER / Shine Architecture - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5017/252b/28ba/0d23/5b00/106f/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414061021)
Having as canvas a prototypical house of the area, but being an innovative project for the community, the refurbishment intended to make a statement through an evident translation of the spatial concept to design: an envelope able to break the typological sequence of the area, still being inviting rather than aggressive; creating an expressive main façade within an open public space.
![Incubadora Social ITESM-BANCOMER / Shine Architecture - Door, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5017/2535/28ba/0d23/5b00/1070/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414061023)
As one of the core principles of the studio, sustainability is approached in this project through solar control strategies and passive ventilation. For instance, the wooden lattices angle in the south-east façade provides passive solar heating in winter (solar radiation penetration), and direct solar radiation protection in summer.
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To achieve a complex responsive morphology, several parametric tests where run in grasshopper, allowing the evaluation of the skin´s performance and select the best relationship between functioning and aesthetics.
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As most studio projects, materials are an honest expression of its nature. Wood is from local source with a basic treatment to be exposed outdoors. Many structural elements where recycled from a roof placed in the old garage area.
The project proves how low budget implementations can offer spatial quality with innovation.
![Incubadora Social ITESM-BANCOMER / Shine Architecture - Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5017/251b/28ba/0d23/5b00/106d/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1414061015)