DAE Building

Aguascalientes, Mexico

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DAE Building

Aguascalientes, Mexico

Firm

Arkylab

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Sports Center
Cultural › Cultural Center
Educational › Auditorium

YEAR

2012

On a university campus, architecture and landscape must merge in joyful recognition of the capabilities of the human being, even more so because of the sporting and cultural activities. With that purpose, DAE Building (DAE, Student Affairs Direction) proposes to be a platform exalting those experiences by integrating various activities and containing them in a big box; a monoblock enveloped in an effervescent tone that shows its spirit through the passing light. A total of 960 circular perforations transform throughout the day, giving a dynamic look to the statically architectural mass.

The building weaves a fabric with the campus, framing the beautiful views to the city without blocking the other buildings. It traces a compositive axis that works as the vertebral column of the complex, adapting to the site’s topography at different levels and allowing universal accessibility.

The building is resolved by pulling itself up from the ground and taking the axis as the vertical joining element through ramps that communicate the system, while generating an ending point as a window to the city.

The distributor space works as a street open to the sky, feeding all spaces with natural light and ventilation. The south facade perforations generate cross ventilation, gaining an interior climate comfort without the need of mechanical or electrical systems, minimizing the energy consumption of the building.