Modernization work at the Universidad de las Artes de Yucatán (UNAY), located in the La Plancha area, is progressing according to schedule, as Governor Mauricio Vila Dosal confirmed during a supervisory visit, according to a press release.
This University of the Arts, which is the most important in the southeast of the country, will grow from 400 to 1,500 students, with better spaces and equipment for their training.
Accompanied by the commander of the 10th Military Region, Major General Homero Mendoza Ruiz, the governor toured the facilities where work crews are carrying out the work at this point in the Historic Center, a work that is being carried out with an unprecedented budget of more than 280 million pesos in a cultural infrastructure project for the benefit of more than 700 students.
About the work, it was explained that two main buildings are being intervened. In the one on 46th Street, which is the “Cinema and Visual Arts” building, the engraving, sculpture, action, audiovisual, and digital and analog photography workshops with darkroom will be held on a surface of 5,550 square meters on the first floor.
Accompanied by the secretary of the Merida City Hall, Alejandro Ruz Castro, Vila Dosal verified the works in 5 classrooms for visual arts, Site, academic area, 2 teachers’ rooms, 4 cinematography classrooms, 3 film editing booths, recording forum, gallery, cafeteria and individual elevator for people with disabilities or pregnant women, it is indicated.
The upper floor includes spaces for drawing, multimedia and painting workshops, a library for visual arts, a computer room and a film library.
Together with the rector of the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (UTM), María Isabel Rodríguez Heredia, and the general director of the Instituto de Infraestructura Carretera de Yucatán (Incay), Sergio Chan Lugo, he also toured the 48th Street “dance and theater” building, where the modernization of the first floor, on an area of 2,276 square meters, includes 4 practical theater classrooms and 4 dance classrooms; dressing rooms, restrooms and showers; library, storage room, Site, stairs, work area for teachers, individual elevator for people with disabilities or pregnant women.
Upstairs you will find stairs, restrooms, theory classrooms, computer room and teachers’ work area.
Neocolonial style
The work being carried out in both buildings maintains the current Mexican neocolonial style, in addition to making it more compatible with the specialties taught there, so materials that reduce noise pollution and are long lasting will be used.
The UNAY is the leading institution in artistic education in the southeast of Mexico, with its Music Education Program for children and young people, bachelor’s degrees in various disciplines and master’s degrees.
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