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Digital Culture Center / CCD (Centro de Cultura Digital)
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Digital Culture Center / CCD (Centro de Cultura Digital)
Mexico City, Mexico
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
At Conaculta’s request, a center was planned for everyone to have access to new technologies and artistic expressions derived from the digital world. It was named the Digital Culture Center (CCD, after its initials in Spanish).
The CCD is located in the basement of the Estela de Luz monument, on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue. The two-story project is 32,000 square feet and its facilities include a movie theater – an extension of the National Cinémathèque – for 120 people, a polyvalent area for scenic arts, a digital exhibition room with an interactive LED screen, a commemorative space, office and service areas, a bar, and a cafeteria.
Conaculta required the construction of this project to be fast and on a low budget; it was therefore approached with a design strategy not to alter the site’s existent anatomy.
The first level was divided and organized into two uses: the first one is contained by a constructive line, which determines the space hierarchy and privacy level by playing with the materials and their different opacities; the second one is a gradation that goes from glass to wood until it becomes a 50-foot-long and 7-foot-high digital screen. In the second level, the constructive line begins to fade, but not without defining some of the program’s boundaries and emphasizing the polyvalent area for scenic arts.
The Estela de Luz, a monument that initially served no purpose apart from that of being observed, became a livable place that could be used recreationally by families, children, young people, and adults. It broke away from the traditional notion of zero interaction between monuments and livability. The CCD stresses a vision for the future — contextualizing and understanding the current city landscapes and coupling them with emerging technologies, in order to create an integral space of interactive systems that satisfy the changing needs of both individual and social demands.
The CCD is located in the basement of the Estela de Luz monument, on Paseo de la Reforma Avenue. The two-story project is 32,000 square feet and its facilities include a movie theater – an extension of the National Cinémathèque – for 120 people, a polyvalent area for scenic arts, a digital exhibition room with an interactive LED screen, a commemorative space, office and service areas, a bar, and a cafeteria.
Conaculta required the construction of this project to be fast and on a low budget; it was therefore approached with a design strategy not to alter the site’s existent anatomy.
The first level was divided and organized into two uses: the first one is contained by a constructive line, which determines the space hierarchy and privacy level by playing with the materials and their different opacities; the second one is a gradation that goes from glass to wood until it becomes a 50-foot-long and 7-foot-high digital screen. In the second level, the constructive line begins to fade, but not without defining some of the program’s boundaries and emphasizing the polyvalent area for scenic arts.
The Estela de Luz, a monument that initially served no purpose apart from that of being observed, became a livable place that could be used recreationally by families, children, young people, and adults. It broke away from the traditional notion of zero interaction between monuments and livability. The CCD stresses a vision for the future — contextualizing and understanding the current city landscapes and coupling them with emerging technologies, in order to create an integral space of interactive systems that satisfy the changing needs of both individual and social demands.
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