Mexico City: a city of outsides
For some time now Mexico City has existed in the global imaginary as one of the largest cities in the world; a paradigm of urbanization in the 20th century and more specifically of the developing world. This condition of being a developing mega-city. W …
Contemporary Mexican architecture: diversity and identity
The richness of contemporary Mexican architecture derives from its diversity. Diversity as value, not as a poutpourri of characterless proposals, but as interaction between generations, styles and affinities. While the emergent generation (Chile) or th …
FC House
Located in the Pedregal de San Angel, a neighborhood located south of Mexico City, starts with a first limitation: to remodel an abandoned functionalist house from 1963. The owners chose to save the same footprint of the house under the premise of not …
Casa Negra
During the late 90´s the growth of suburbial areas of Mexico City was restricted as a part of Bando 2 program, which intended to slow down the spreading of the city in areas which had no infraestructure to support the expansion while promoting the re-d …
Falcon Headquarters
The company, Corporativo Falcon, dedicated to instruments and medical equipment, required a new headquarters building in Mexico City. The premise, besides the need of greater area and a space designed to make efficient its processes, was to offer the b …
Tecnoparque
The intention of the project is to create a high-technology office campus to provide space for call centers, service centers and data centers; with world-class specifications. The campus will hold 6 office buildings with a total area of 120,000 sqm; an …
Amsterdam Complex
The Amsterdam complex did not really begin as one: the projects began to be linked one to the other in the course of time, and during the progressive construction of the buildings. Being able to work in adjoining lots adds potential to opportunities is …
Ave Fenix Fire Station
English writer Thomas Quincy talked in his classic (Confessions of an English opium-eater) of the pleasure that, after making sure all possible victims and risk were absent, a burning building can provide, one century after, Austrian pyromaniacs of Coo …
Meditation House
This is a project with very strong emotional implications. We had to understand the mood of the user, who at such this moment would not care very much for an aesthetical analisis of any place, but at the same time we wanted to create a space that can c …