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La Planta  

La Planta

Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Mexico

Project Featured on Feb 17, 2014
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La Planta

Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Mexico

Project Featured on Feb 17, 2014
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2013
La Planta
Text by Ana Guerrero Santos

Where there was once decomposed organic matter, now there is art, sports and leisure. It is the conversion of a sewage treatment plant into a multidisciplinary center.

After being built nearly two decades ago in Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, this place never really worked and saw its contents come into a rapid estate of decomposition. Years later, local authorities called for new meanings for the place, making it a great challenge.

The plant was made of a series of channels containing water within high resistance concrete walls which’s demolition costs were infinitely higher than giving them a new use. The correct equation was, therefore, finding a new meaning to the place and this is how after studying the existing structure and measuring all possibilities, the transformation into a multidisciplinary center was proposed. This is a place that would hold culture, sports and leisure, and that would benefit the nearby communities of Santa Fe and Chula Vista in Tlajomulco.
All water channels were cleaned and access stairs were built placing a 450 square meter roof on top of it all, where a piece of the artist Francisco Morales reminds us that culture is a social reintegrating factor.
While placing this cover, six rooms with natural light and ventilation where achieved, where windows and patios take away any subterranean sensation. The entrance stairs work also as upstage areas, and children can enjoy a philharmonic rehearsal while a ballet class is taking place next door, or a painting workshop, or a gymnastics lesson, or football class too.
Upstairs, in the rooftop, several events can take place. A metallic arbor was placed, allowing people to sit in the shade, and there is also the project of making more sun protection for more activities on the outside.
Advised by Adrian Guerrero and with the participation of Paco Morales, both artists, The Plant project permitted us to transform what was once a sewage treatment plant into an art, sports and leisure production one.

Client:
Tlajomulco de Zuñiga City Government
Enrique Alfaro Ramírez
Alberto Uribe Camacho
Ismael del Toro Castro

Date:
Project: 2011
Completion: 2013

Author:
Agraz Arquitectos S.C.
Ricardo Agraz

Collaborators:
Erick Martínez
Miguel Sánchez
Juan Antonio Jaime
Brenda Barron
Blanca Moreno
Gabriela Villarreal
Javier Gutiérrez
Gabriel Gómez
Humberto Dueñas
Marc Fernández
Fernanda Palma
Israel Picos
Javier H. Aguirre
Leticia Macias

Construction:
Tlajomulco Public Works Office
Hugo Luna Vázquez – Strategic Project Coordinator
David Miguel Zamora Bueno – Minister of Public Works
Public bidding
Gama Constructores y Asociados S.A. de C.V. - Francisco Javier Peregrina Barajas

Art Direction:
Francisco Morales Dufour
Adrián Guerrero

Photography:
Mito Covarrubias

Site area: 32 990 m2
Construction area: 1375 m2

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Aceros Corey
Cemex
Construlita de Occidente
Ventalum
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