The project was a collaboration between the Engineering and Architecture Faculties of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, which organized a contest to develop a postgraduate unit belonging to the Engineering Faculty of UNAM located at the Juriquilla Campus in Querétaro. The goal was to create a center of high technology. The competition was organized into work teams consisting of students from the Luis Barragán workshop, and the winning team was chosen by a group of engineers from the Engineering Faculty. Anyela Bucio Méndez, René Cabrera Zepeda, Javier Escárcega Nochebuena, Alberto García Ramírez, Alondra Hernández Madrid, and Carlos Jesús Rivas Jiménez were the students selected to develop the executive project.

The building consisted of two volumes. The first contained classrooms, a cafeteria, and administrative offices, while the second was a large complex housing labs and workshops.