This privately owned corporate, building is stage III of the modernization of “Grupo Financiero Banorte’s” facilities, with a capacity for 1,446 cars in direct response to an aggressive automotive financing program of the group for the employees, at a rate of 8 cars per 10 employees, giving a total of 44,700 m2 contained within 3 basements and 4 floors in the superstructure.
Location: Tlalpan, Mexico City / Tlalpan, Ciudad de México
Photography: Alexandre d’ La Roche
Partner in Charge: M.Arch. Gerardo Broissin
Project Leader: Arq. David Suarez
Design Team: M.Arch. Gerardo Broissin, Arq. David Suarez, Arq. Bruno Roche, Arq.
Luis Barrera
Colaborators: Arq. Rosario Mestre, Arq. Alejadro Rocha, Arq. Augusto Mirada, Arq. Mario Uriarte, Arq. José Luis Durán, Arq. Laura Ortiz, Arq. Alfonso Vargas
The project is the result of Tlaxco´s Municipal Urban Development Plan (PMDU): the first project for this “Magical Town” was chosen to be the market following a consensus, participatory decision, as a means of boosting the local economy and arts crafts in Tlaxco. The project was developed on the basis of recovering the outer walls and foundations of a pre-existing building that had fallen into disuse. With a walkway at the front, the project is organized into two main halls, the larger one housing fourteen stalls for artisans from various parts of the municipal district, while the smaller one has a space for workshops. Each area is also connected to a courtyard that can be used as necessary for other activities. The walkway uses a series of arches and a rectangular frame that creates a dialogue between a contemporary and vernacular language; the space is used as a meeting point. Load-bearing walls and a laminated timber (pine) roof trusses were employed for the construction. The interiors enjoy natural lightning thanks to the placement of skylights along the length of the hall to provide bright, throughout the market place, at the same time as creating iconic structure which the local population can feel proud and make their own.
The project foresees the opportunity to use reinterpretation as a consistent creative tool. By mimicking orientation strategy and a very simple functional diagram, the new construction relinks to the notion of history and accustomed-living behavior patterns. Open space allow direct sun light to enter from the south side, east and west side are offset inner plot, so only north side is at property line. The idea is to transit from a 2,754 sq.ft. Old construction to a 1,937 sq.ft. one, mainly same program, roughly different space quality experience.
Spaces, atmospheres, textures and light are the four key concepts to approach the Sundaram House project, concepts that merge into an architecture so simplistic and imposing that it is a paradise to inhabit.
The spaces are methodically distributed in three levels that contain two residential areas; one for the owners of the house and another one for their guests.
In the main area the garage and a front garden are found, perfect exordium for the living hall that welcomes its visitors and thus, start the tour to the kitchen, dining room and a covered terrace with a pool in a central garden and outdoor cinema , a guest room, laundry, two main bedrooms connected by an extensive corridor and a study-terrace that offers an incomparable view of the natural landscape of the mexican jungle.
The Project is located at Paseo Querétaro Shopping Center, in the city of Santiago de Querétaro, México.
The facade is made of a grid of triangular modules with flat and low-relief pieces, which form an eccentric subtracted pyramid, and when the pieces are rotated allows three possibilities, that combined, a disordered texture is achieved. The intention of this facade is that the different solar illuminations throughout the day generate play of shadows and reflections.
The facade is made of white prefabricated concrete on metal frames.
This 4 apartment’s project was done in the south of the Colonia del Valle, a traditional area in Mexico City, in a 350 sq m lot where a single family home was for many years. One of the main goals of the project was to respect the height of the urban belt and maintain complete harmony with the surroundings.
The project was developed in 3 levels and the main façade was put back 4 meters to have 20% of free space. Two volumes stand out in the limit of the lot, one on the main level protecting the courtyard of one of the apartments and the other in the third level that partially contains the kitchens of the upper apartments.
Located in one of the most extensively developed areas in the north of the city of Querétaro, and 100m from one of the principal avenues, AIRA is a tower of 35 apartments.
The project is located on a narrow and deep site measuring 2,100 m2. Its compact volumetry reflects the intention to generate open space and to create green areas, and offers a forceful vertical response to an area dominated by horizontal architecture.
Architecture Team: Edgar Alarcón, Joaquín Ríos, César Medina, Ian Pablo Amores, Nadia Ferrufino, David Muñoz, Heliana Echavarria, Yesenia Ruiz, Carlos Cervantes, José Sánchez, Cristopher Franco, Crystal Martínez
The house is located in the outskirts of the city of Oaxaca in Mexico, a developing context, in the middle of changes in land use, where barely more than half are buildings; a combination between houses and large storage units.
The assignment is given with some very clear requests, due to the conditions of its current surroundings it is emphasized for the house to appear unfinished from the outside, to generate an opportunity to have a recreational space inside by using half of the plot of land as a garden; and the possibility for a visual escape through scale towards the view of the city, the Sierra Norte or of the hill of Monte Alban. The plot of land is 20 meters long at the front and 10 meters in depth, the program is developed in a fourth of the available area, an area of five by ten.
MX581 is a 3-level, 12-unit residential building located on Avenida México # 581, colonia San Jerónimo Aculco, in Mexico City.
The “L” shaped site generated a challenge to accommodate the program of the building. It was decided to leave a garden on the side of the project, so that the building’s exterior could be rectangular with an east-west orientation. The pedestrian access of the building is through this garden, positioned 3 meters above street level.
The project proposes two towers, each with 6 single story apartments, ranging from 150 to 212 sqm. These building towers are connected by a central courtyard from which you can access the apartments.
In Modulos Stand a dynamic and urban ambiance is perceived. The wide variety of gray shades that form the color palette stands out in the elements that enhance the façade intensifying the movement of the different geometries selected to catch the visitor’s eye from the first impact.
A space where the first impression is a comfort and cozy feeling was seek and achieved by the selection of neutral colors that create an attractive contrast between the hallway and what is happening inside. The height creates an excellent perspective to appreciate the product selection displayed flat and in overlapped modules that give the necessary depth to analyze in detail each collection.
Geometry and the contrast of dark and light shades are the two elements in which Local 10 Arquitectura team focused for this stand project, where as always the needs of the exhibitor and visitors were considered attaining the perfect balance between impact, functionality and operation.
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