This refurbishment intends to offer a new quality-based, morphological-exploration for a social entrepreneurship incubator in a low-income area in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.

The initiative of these social interventions is lead by two main institutions: Tecnologico de Monterrey (one of the best private universities in Mexico) 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.

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 facade within an open public space.

You don’t need carte blanche with which to give your every creative impulse free rein to be able to design an innovative building. Studio Chenchow Little’s “Pitched Roof House” in Sydney, proves it.