Whereas the beauty and precision of the submitted drawings initially captured the attention of the jury, a closer look at the project revealed a deep sensibility for social, technical and environmental concerns – all combined and transformed into a stunning building for children, a building embedded in the landscape and appropriately playful in its formal expression. The jury was furthermore impressed by the scheme’s minimal deployment of architectural elements, such as the use of one continuous wall encasing the entire school, to achieve maximum effects – an “economy of means” contributing of an elegant and discrete structure dedicated to the next generation, while changing the paradigm of education in rural Mexico.