This project comes
to set a new architectural statement in the Pedregal area of Mexico City which
has been neglected, because nothing new and important had happened since its
beginings when “Cuidad Universitaria” was built. Nowadays the real-estate
pressure and the need of services are beginning to promote significant changes.
The way that this
building relates with its context, is by breaking up with what is common to the
zone, which are big houses in big areas surrounded by very high stone walls
which do not let anybody know what is happening outside and vice versa.
This goal is achieved with the main facade that
consists of two elements: one of them linen with a zinc plate with large
irregular perforations to which a different shades of yellow and translucent
laminated glass section is inlay. It allows the view of the interior event from
the outisde, and at the same time allowing the view of the exterior event from
the inside; in such way the public social spaces mix and the limits within the
urban and the private become frontiers.
The
project consists of two commercial levels and a roof garden and two underground
parking levels.
Mobility impaired individuals access and areas are included: ramps,
special parking spaces, elevators, etc.; car reception area at the entrance and
the exit to avoid parking in the public way, numerous garden areas, including
the roof; car delivery zone inside the first parking basement floor.
This is a sustainable and intelligent
development project with an automation and control system that contemplates
passive and active energy saving resources: lighting and extraction control, opening and closing façade rolling doors,
air conditioning, security and control access, prevention signage, CCTV, all of
them scheduled and synchronized.
The main facade consists of two elements: one is covered
with a zinc plate with large irregular perforations, the other one is a
laminated glass box with different shades of yellow and translucentness.