The BASF corporate building is situated in
Insurgentes Avenue, one of the most famous avenue in Mexico City.
The ground floor is of 1,315.0 m2 and each
standard floor of approximately 942.0 m2. The shape has three differently-oriented
squares brought together by a central core.
BASF's corporate office project consists
of the ground floor and 6 levels, the second floor will be for leasing and the first
floor will be developed in the future. The design program for the other floors
includes spaces such as a lobby, open and private offices, meeting rooms, a
dining room, rooms for informal or casual meetings, an auditorium, support
areas and sites. A requirement of the client was to
achieve LEED certification, so the design must had to incorporate maximum
parameters of energy efficiency and sustainability.
On the ground floor there is a showroom for
the display of the company's own products with the facilities to project images
of the different products on screens.
Also located on this floor is the
reception area which has a staple with a stone finish and the BASF logo on the
back wall. With its waiting area and turnstiles with scanners giving access to users,
it will service the entire building.
Restrooms are divided into two parts, one
for the meeting rooms and the other for the dining area, executive dining room
and showroom. They will have everything to serve the needs of the customer with
water-saving equipment which will help consumption. As this equipment has its
own water treatment plant for used water, it will have a second use generating
water for the air conditioning.
There is a public space with meeting
rooms, two of which will have a movable wall making it possible to use the
space in a different manner. The small rooms have audio-visual equipment and a wall
mounted screen and the large rooms have projectors and electric screens. The
executive dining room on this floor has three separate rooms with movable walls
that can be made into one when the space is needed. The general dining room serves 100 people in
two shifts, and this space will have a shared use, as an auditorium as it also
has projectors and screens on columns. It features an audio cabin and store for
tables and chairs, the latter being in the same space as the kitchen which has on-site
food preparation.
It has an office area and a space for
medical services, a lactation room and an ATM.
The pedestrian entrance to the building
has ramps allowing access to disabled persons in wheelchairs. The smoking area
is in the same area, designed to have lower visual impact, so only the floor
finish changes.The floors second to the sixth could be
called standard floors, whose three wings are comprised of open areas, except
for the sixth floor where the presence of the chairman’s office results in more
private offices.
These floors have a closed printing room
with extraction as well as a stationery storage cabinet, enclosed phone booths
consisting of a seat and a telephone line for private telephone conversations
between two or more people. These floors also have meeting rooms, mainly for 4
to 8 people, which will be equipped according to need and size with projectors
and screens.
There is also a janitor’s room in the
emergency stairwell, for storage and cleaning facilities.
A distinguishing feature of these floors
is the informal meeting space, strategically located to serve coffee and water,
so that people to gather casually and watch
presentations run from a laptop set on a table. The screen is wall-mounted
or suspended from the ceiling as appropriate.
Each informal meeting space is decorated
with a different theme, in order to bring something special to each floor.