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Architects: Taller David Dana
- Area: 798 m²
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Alessandro Bo
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Text description provided by the architects. This Project is located at Constituyentes 1072, one of the main avenues in Mexico City.
The architectural approach integrates a front entry plaza that works as a boundary or transition between the building and the street. The office complex integrates 5 levels and has the great advantage of inserting natural daylighting in all four facades. All the floor plans are equal besides the fifth floor which has a frontal cantilever that is being supported with a metal structure of 23 meters of altitude. The main disadvantage of this structural skeleton was that is exposed in an area of high exposure.
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Geometrica Developers contacted us to transform the metal frame in a single intervention that visually would integrate the project with its environment. This structure plays a major role in the design of the building and emphasize its presence in the surrounding context.
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Our performance goal was to reduce the visual impact of the 5 level structure, also to address it as an art installation.
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The starting point in our proposal was to relate the metal structure of the building with the entry plaza, creating a pedestrian and vehicular landmark that would become interesting at any time of the day. For the façade, we prefabricated a unique piece of perforated metal, this element was placed on the structure in different directions creating an attractive and dynamic geometry.
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To complement the intervention we integrated a vertical LED lighting network that was extended and installed horizontally in the pavement of the square.
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The strategy resulted as a unique intervention in a corporate building which accom- plished the objective of transforming the space into a dynamic installation that interacts simultaneously with the public and the private space.