Town Square Metepec stands as a new urban complex located in the heart of one of the cities with the greatest economic and demographic growth in the State of Mexico. The project presents a complete of offer of goods and services that integrates the community satisfying its daily and lifestyle needs.
The Magdalena Building is located in the Colonia del Valle of Mexico City; whose urbanization occurs at the beginning of the twentieth century, the colony had a slow development until 1920, when the Avenue of the Insurgents was enlarged and paved, along it began to build huge houses. By the 1960s, the area was already completely urbanized, where mansions inhabited by Spaniards who migrated to Mexico predominated. Over time and due to the increase in the value of the properties, Colonia del Valle is in a process of reconversion of land use, so that many of its houses have been converted into Residential Buildings; In this particular case there were two houses which were demolished and subsequently there was a merger of land to achieve a 485m2 displacement.
Given the growing offer of multifamily housing developments in the Tulum area, the project seeks to establish a group where the sense of community is returned. Beyond the repetition of vertically stacked repetitive products, Kiki is about belonging to the whole, where the units, although defined and independent, are understood in their relationship with each other forming an inseparable building, a porous and permeable monolith.
The project strategy is based on a reticular grid structure of 3.60 meters in which the housing units can be configured modularly from one to two bedrooms as required, providing products of 26, 52 and 78 square meters. This scheme allows us to generate subtractions at various levels to obtain terraces and controlled views of the context.
A resting residence house designed on a single floor for a retired couple and their guests. This house was built on a regular 20 m lot on each side located in a Golf club in the city of Mérida. The architectural response on a single level was an important piece that allowed to obtain an additional 10% of land occupation (COS) and take advantage of the native trees that were already on the site. With the idea of compacting what was built and meeting the particular request to optimize the user, a 17m front x 14m deep module was designed forming a piece of 238m2.
A 3-patio house on a hillside in the city of Tijuana. The house takes advantage of the city views to the east with a linear balcony, then it centers around an entry courtyard that allows natural light to penetrate all the interiors. The hillside helps create a small garden and green roof for the guest bedroom and studio space. The house is in constant dialogue between the inside and outside.
Designed for a social scientist, the project is an interplay of layered spaces. Rendered in white allowing its interior to be a canvass of natural color throughout the day. All of its inhabited open spaces lay in a seamless second-floor level that moves from interior to the exterior as daily life progresses.
To celebrate her birthday, a great friend decided to give herself this abode in which open areas, spatial continuity and a close relationship with the outside predominate.
On the outside, a succession of blind volumes is faithful to our position of “not showing” and allowing the understanding and enjoyment of the space only to those who have confidence to enter the house.
The location of the access is due to the pre-existing vegetation, flanked by it, you reach a covered hallway that precedes the hall and has some outdoor chairs that remind us of the ancient custom of the inhabitants of the city center of ¨salir to talk and watch the night fall¨.On the opposite side, through the garage there is a more daily access, in this, the circulation that leads to the kitchen opens to a flooded patio, becoming a focal point and visual auction of several areas, making the routes more enjoyable and injecting light inside the house.
The new library will embody Tec de Monterrey’s academic mission, common ground for all disciplines and programs contained within the Tec, the library will be the place where students, faculty, staff, and knowledge groups come together to access information, study, collaborate, and be inspired.
The experience of the library will sum up the full cycle of learning and production at the Tec, from the day to day to special events. In acknowledgement of the dynamic nature of teaching and learning at the Tec, the building will be inherently flexible and adaptable, ensuring it will both serve and reflect the learning experience from now on to the future.
Casa Sierra Fria is a house located in a residential neighborhood in Mexico City. As the majority of the sites in this neighborhood have regular constructions on three of their four sides, the architectural concept began to explore the idea of the site as a contained void with a structural open grid on top of it. Each quadrant has a different program and a different relationship with the surrounding patio.
This structural grid is intersected in the middle by the staircase and the service units, freeing the surrounding spaces towards the exterior. On top of this light wall-based structure is a solid block that contains the private rooms of the house; these spaces have more restricted openings to outside views.
Team: Pablo Pérez Palacios + Alfonso de la Concha Rojas, Miguel Vargas, Ignacio Rodríguez, Alejandra Pavón, José Hadad, Carla Celis, Johnathan Calderón
Located in Bernal in the state of Querétaro in Mexico Donato is a vineyard that stands outs for offering its visitors an experience that goes beyond the local market. Its privileged location —an hour and a half from Mexico City— gives it a very attractive advantage that is triggering an interest in everything happening in developing area.
The project made for Donato is a complex that, in addition to the vineyard, includes an event hall for 850 people, a gourmet shop, two restaurants, and a cellar for visitors and a special one for the family. Throughout the project you can enjoy magnificent views of Peña de Bernal, this iconic rock landmark surrounded by vines and its kaleidoscope of colors and textures throughout the year.
The project consists of the façades and roof-garden of the Call Center (CAT) and the main lobby.
CAT. We were commissioned to design of the façades and the roof garden of a rectangular building of 60×40 m and three stories that contains a call center, on the outskirts of Morelia. These buildings are the first phase of a future corporate campus.
The suburban context of isolated buildings scattered on a hilly site suggested that the building could merge with the landscape by using colours, shapes and materials that could suggest a large rock made of red minerals and a green platform. The metaphor had to be subtle but clear and very architectural, so we selected perforated Corten steel and a faceted skin to wrap the building.
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