University Facilities UDEP: a Learning Atmosphere in the Dry Forest

Barclay & Crousse Architecture, Middle Density, Project, Southern Coexistences, Territory and mobility

Circulation, Climate, Comfort, Desert, Educational Building, Educational facility, Exposed concrete, Forest, Perú, Polished concrete, Prefabrication, Project, Southern Coexistences, Territorial Approach, Vegetation, Ventilation, Well-being

Photography: Estudio Palma

The UDEP campus is a huge piece of land located nowadays within the urban grid of the city of Piura, nearly a thousand kilometres north from Lima (Peru). It keeps a very interesting sample of equatorial dry forest, mainly constituted by carob trees over sand soil. The university responded recently to a public grant for admitting low-income rural students, and a new pavilion was urgently needed for accommodating a growing student population.