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Extra Curricular Activities Building

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Bulevar Tomas Fernández, Juárez, Mexico

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Extra Curricular Activities Building

Bulevar Tomas Fernández, Juárez, Mexico

Firm

Grupo ARKHOS

Type

Educational › University

YEAR

2011

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

Extracurricular
Activities Building, Tec de Monterrey University, Juárez Campus.
The building for the Tec de Monterrey University in their
Juarez Campus, is in essence a building destined to host most of the
extracurricular activities offered to students both in High school as in
College and Higher degrees.
Surrounding the actual Gym on its front and one of the
sides, the building should integrate to it with a circulation corridor on the
two levels of the Project. Uniting both buildings and generating a new main
façade which has western orientation, solving an ancient thermal problem on the
existing gym, and giving it a new and renovated face towards its access plaza,
integrating thru its architecture to the rest of the campus buildings.
The 52,000 sq. Ft. Building should provide 12 classrooms
for varied activities such as Martial Arts, Classic and Popular dance, Painting
and Sculpture workshop, Fitness, Theatre, Music, Express workshops, Cooking
classes, also it has a small auditorium, a Racquetball court, and a multi-use
hall.
It also provides service areas for student associations
with ten individual spaces.
It has enough storage areas to accommodate the work
material on each of the workshops and restroom services on both levels.
Instead of placing the new building adjacent to the
existing gym on its south Wall, we decided to generate a plaza between both
buildings (existing and new), the one is shadowed by the new building most of
the year, and the circulation to access all of the classrooms makes a covered
portico surrounding the plaza.
The Project, besides fulfilling the long waited demand to
have ideal spaces for the integral development of the alumni classes, it should
show that Tec de Monterrey University can and wants to do things differently,
that they can change paradigms, and that they are committed care for the
environment and willing to invest on sustainable projects. Also, in an era of
economic and social crisis in Mexico, but specially in Ciudad Juarez, we should
have a building that taking with austere finishes, would make an optimum and
dignified space for the development of the activities for which it was
conceived, with just the necessary Budget, and keeping the compromise for a
sustainable campus.
The combination of textures and finishes, mainly on the
perimeter of the building, alternating the shipping container towers with the
louver covered Windows of the classrooms, generates a sequence of solidity and
transparency. All within a common
characteristic, the sustainable theme, expressed by the recycled containers and
the care for the sun’s incidence on the south and west facades. The vertical
stripes on the sides of the containers contrast with the horizontality of the
louvers.
The used intermodal shipping containers towers are used
at a 100% on its four levels. The first and third levels their function is
integral with the workshop its adjacent to, as didactic area for the professor,
a place for resting on the sports workshops, and also hosts the stairs for the
storage rooms and the student association work areas located on the second and
fourth levels.
The restrooms are also located inside the containers on
each of the workshop levels.
The possibility to modify the container with large voids
allowed that the area inside the container be an integral part of the workshop,
giving it more than an utilitarian use.
The use of metallic louvers and aluminum panel elements
on the western main facade, allowed us the integration of this building with
the rest of the buildings on campus and the main Access on the complex adjacent
to a plaza with mature trees took importance, and solved the problem of western
exposure on the existing gym.
The use of recycled shipping containers helped us reduce
CO2 emissions generated by the construction process of the building. We used 36
used 40 ft. containers and each container prevents the manufacture of tons of
steel, as most of the lateral loads on the structure of the building were taken
by the container columns allowing to have column sections just enough to
transfer the vertical loads on the workshops.
The workshops have windows on two opposite sides, the
north side which is permanently shadowed and the south side protected by the
aluminum louvers, allowing us to perform activities during most of the day
without artificial lighting and protected from heat gain.
The sides of the containers are covered with automotive
painting with a nano-sphere ceramic aggregate that makes a texture very
resistant to abrasion, this microscopic spheres repel most of the heat irradiated
by the sun, helping the isolation factor on the building.
On the interior side of the containers we use Icynene
spray foam, a non polluting insulation, covered by sheet rock panels.
The rest of the
buildings finishes are grinded and then polished concrete and laminate flooring
inside the containers and on the mezzanines. This allowed us to keep operating
and maintenance costs to a minimum.
The interior of the workshops have flooring according to
their use.
The construction method allowed to reduce waste volumes
and the construction period also was reduced.
Far from ending with a boring building according to its
function as workshops, is a building that has color, texture, rhythm but
mainly, it’s a building that teaches, that educates on its own, is an example
of good resource use, both economically as environmentally, it shows that
recycling can take place on different ways, that design can be optimized and
that we are committed with the environment, and what better place to teach all
of this than in the building made specially to develop the full potential of
their users, getting the best from them in activities performed not by
obligation but by their own will. In this creative environment by definition,
the building was meant to teach us something too.
Grupo ARKHOS, is
a Design Firm Cofounded in 2008, by architects Ruben Escobar-Urrutia, LEED AP
and Ricardo Pacheco-Lopez. Since that date we have worked on a very varied
array of projects, from student centers and classroom university buildings,
office buildings, restaurants, and currently working on a 60,000 square meter
Convention and Exposition Center and on two 10 story IT development buildings,
one already under construction and seeking a LEED Gold certification.
We have offices
in Juarez Mexico and in Mexico City. And have developed projects in several
cities in Mexico including Chihuahua, Juarez, Mexico City and Cancun. And in
the United States in El Paso, Texas.
Our design
approach is always towards sustainability and innovation.

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