The  Centro Educativo Pedregal is a proposal for the design of a repeatable  permanent infrastructure, aesthetic and functional that serves the  demand of the Panamanian student population.

In  Panama between 1970s and 2009, educational infrastructures of the public  sector were ignored. This resulted in a lack of educational centers for  the growing population and for 80% of existing educational centers to  be in a deplorable condition. New educational centers being built are  based on an obsolete design with rigid spaces where the student is a  passive entity being taught with a lecture based method and the teacher  is the only bearer of knowledge.

The  trends of the XXI Century call for multipurpose and flexible spaces  where different types of activities can take place. The student is an  active entity in their education and bearer of knowledge.

This  means a student can learn from their classmates, the teachers and by  themselves. Classrooms are open spaces that can be expanded according to  the current need, they are permeable and become a display of knowledge  where students learn about everything that happens within the  educational center.

The lack  of educational centers in the community were a student lives forces  them to commute long distances, this an insurmountable obstacle that  most of the time results in the student dropping out of school. In  Pedregal, a growing sector in Panama, there are no high schools or  complete educational centers that encompass preschool to high school. It  is then decided to implant in Pedregal what will be a model educational  center repeatable around the country that eliminates the gap among  educational centers of the private and public sector applying trends of  the XXI Century in an establishment that encompasses education preschool  to high school.