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Liverpool
Firm
YEAR
2006
SIZE
500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft
The project
involves the refurbishment of a former office building built in 1981, to be
converted into a residential building with 23 apartments. It is worth saying
that this building was considerably
damaged during the 1985 earthquake. The whole building leaned itself
towards the street by 1.20 meters, so the building had a big structural
intervention that straightened it to its former position and reinforced the
foundations heavily so to never have a problem again.
This building
is located in the Juarez district, within a historic protected area. We first
developed a full project that at the end of the process (one year and a half)
was rejected by the local authorities. They argued that because of the scale of
the building (the only building with 15 floor plans in the area), we should be
more considerate with the surroundings.
We were asked
by our client to redesign the proposal, so we went to the drawing board again
and ended up with a proposal that considered a visual continuum at street level
with the adjacent buildings, emphasizing the building in a horizontal way and
connecting it visually with its surroundings by the use of color.
The original
structure of the building was left virtually intact. The first four levels of
the building provide parking area and the rest of the levels house apartments
of different sizes (between 137 and 189 m2), some of which have private
terraces. The strategy was to leave the service areas in the heart of the
apartments (kitchen, laundry and bathrooms), so as to allow all living areas to
be as big and airy as possible and to have views of the city.
We designed a
pierced steel facade in the main and rear facades of the building. This element
was inspired by the traditional mexican handcraft of papel picado, where a piece of
paper is chopped leaving holes in form of flowers, animals, people, etc.
The function
of this element is to hide the old facade, to give as much views as possible to
each apartment, to create an attractive element that would help with the
marketing issues and to create a certain order and beauty within the chaotic
urban context.
We worked
carefully in the design of each of the steel plates, with reference to the
original design of a papel
picado bought in the market of San Angel. The texture provided by
the metal facade contrasts with the
application of a reddish stucco in the rest of the building, which seeks to
integrate (with a low budget) the building with its urban context, especially
with their roofs treated with waterproof red paint, which is one of the most
common urban landscapes found in Mexico City.
involves the refurbishment of a former office building built in 1981, to be
converted into a residential building with 23 apartments. It is worth saying
that this building was considerably
damaged during the 1985 earthquake. The whole building leaned itself
towards the street by 1.20 meters, so the building had a big structural
intervention that straightened it to its former position and reinforced the
foundations heavily so to never have a problem again.
This building
is located in the Juarez district, within a historic protected area. We first
developed a full project that at the end of the process (one year and a half)
was rejected by the local authorities. They argued that because of the scale of
the building (the only building with 15 floor plans in the area), we should be
more considerate with the surroundings.
We were asked
by our client to redesign the proposal, so we went to the drawing board again
and ended up with a proposal that considered a visual continuum at street level
with the adjacent buildings, emphasizing the building in a horizontal way and
connecting it visually with its surroundings by the use of color.
The original
structure of the building was left virtually intact. The first four levels of
the building provide parking area and the rest of the levels house apartments
of different sizes (between 137 and 189 m2), some of which have private
terraces. The strategy was to leave the service areas in the heart of the
apartments (kitchen, laundry and bathrooms), so as to allow all living areas to
be as big and airy as possible and to have views of the city.
We designed a
pierced steel facade in the main and rear facades of the building. This element
was inspired by the traditional mexican handcraft of papel picado, where a piece of
paper is chopped leaving holes in form of flowers, animals, people, etc.
The function
of this element is to hide the old facade, to give as much views as possible to
each apartment, to create an attractive element that would help with the
marketing issues and to create a certain order and beauty within the chaotic
urban context.
We worked
carefully in the design of each of the steel plates, with reference to the
original design of a papel
picado bought in the market of San Angel. The texture provided by
the metal facade contrasts with the
application of a reddish stucco in the rest of the building, which seeks to
integrate (with a low budget) the building with its urban context, especially
with their roofs treated with waterproof red paint, which is one of the most
common urban landscapes found in Mexico City.
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