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Xicoténcatl Park / Taller Capital

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Parque Xicoténcatl was built over a former debris-filled ravine, located on the outskirts of Tijuana. This informally urbanized area is characterized by cardboard and cinder block constructions, usually roofed with a corrugated metal sheets or very simple concrete slabs, standing over steep slopes.

Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center / Laboratorio de Arquitectura Plástica

Valeria Silva — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:00:00 +0000

At the beginning of 2019 and through the Urban Improvement Program, SEDATU in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture UNAM called for groups of academics and practitioners to develop public facilities in locations with a high degree of urban and social backwardness, in border regions of the northern part of the country. As part of the projects of this call and solved with a limited budget and schedule, the proposal was developed for a Cultural and Sports Center located on an underutilized site in Colonia Santa Fe II, in Tijuana, Baja California.

Temporary Pavilion for Healthcare Workers / Revolution

Valeria Silva — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Temporary Pavilion for Healthcare Workers (TPHW) is a modular temporary housing project created by the Mexican architecture & technology office Revolution in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the support of local and global companies as donors and Franco-Mexican Chamber of Commerce & Industry, National Importers and Exporters of Forest Products Association and National Suppliers of the Wood and Furniture Industry Association as allies. In many cities hundreds of Covid-19 caring healthcare workers are sleeping in their cars or other precarious facilities after finishing their shifts, trying to avoid going home or taking public transportation and exposing their families and communities to contagion.

LP3 House / Diseño Norteño

Valeria Silva — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:00:00 +0000

A residual lot originated from a subdivision of a big orthogonal property and the intersection of two diagonal streets generated a small triangular lot with very low commercial value and interest. What others would see as a disadvantage in shape and function, we saw had a huge potential. The lots of unique shapes triggered the initial ideas, which from the start, dictated that the design would be different from the neighboring houses.

Trio Residential Complex / Diseño Norteño

Andreas Luco — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:00:00 +0000

In a property located in one of the many hills of the city of Tijuana, originally planned for single-family housing, a three-unit horizontal condominium complex was proposed with the intention of increasing the density of the area and giving young people the possibility of acquiring a home in this central neighbourhood. After clarifying the feasibility of re-densifying the lot, and maintaining a low sale cost, the biggest challenge was to achieve natural lighting and cross ventilation in each apartment, since each of them would be only 5 meters wide, but 18 meters deep. To achieve this, the project was resolved mainly in section, playing with changes in heights, which allow openings at different levels, which ventilate and illuminate the houses on an East-West axis.

TLP House / T38 Studio

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 17:00:00 +0000

TLP is located in a residential neighborhood on the upper part of a hill in the city of Tijuana, an incredibly dynamic city that sits on the world’s busiest land border with the city of San Diego. The house is composed of three volumes that contain the main living spaces. The shape of these three volumes, trapezoidal prisms, respond to the irregular shape of the plot.

PS House / Guillot Arquitectos

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:00:00 +0000

This single-family residence is located on top of a hill in a residential area in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The 989 square meter plot was previously occupied by a house that suffered severe structural damage making it impossible to rescue; however, some of the construction materials were salvaged and donated for reuse and recycling. The architectural arrangement was conceived taking two needs in consideration; first, to create a footprint able to accommodate a south facing garden and a central patio, and second to provide a fully functional ground level to accommodate user's needs as they age.

ESPAÑA8477 / Diseño Norteño

Valentina Villa — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:00:00 +0000

The project España 8477 is generated when searching for a typology for a small-scale vertical housing building, where all users can enjoy a different spatial quality and at an affordable price. The multifamily building that is common in the city is a repetition of a typical plan for 'n' number of levels. Where outdoor spaces are limited to the access corridors or stairs and inside the views are determined by the height of the building.

AD Classics: Tijuana Cultural Center / Pedro Ramírez Vázquez + Mánuel Rosen Morrison

Mely Morfín — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:57:00 +0000

Designed by architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Manuel Rosen Morrison, the buildings that make up the Tijuana Cultural Center constructed at the end of the 20th century, are now an urban landmark with a singularity so evident that it could only be understood in a city as peculiar as the one that houses it. We present to you on this occasion an approach to architecture with modern, nationalist, and iconic touches that at some point were part of the national emblem within the horizons of a Mexico like that of 1982.

Toro Gastrobar / Studio Arthur Casas

Florencia Mena — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:00:00 +0000

This complete renovation of an existing structure in a resort in Los Cabos, Mexico, aimed to bring the local atmosphere to the project. Located in front of a spectacular view towards the Pacific Ocean, the building was transformed in order to create a transition between a traditional Mexican courtyard and open views to the landscape.

HDJ89 / T38 Studio

Karen Valenzuela — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:00:00 +0000

HDJ89 is the ninth of 12 infill houses we are developing in the HDJ project in Tijuana.

"La Línea Borrosa" Proposes a Shared Space at the US-Mexico Border

Rory Stott — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 09:30:00 +0000

In 1971, Friendship Park was created at the western coast of the US-Mexico border, a small strip of land where the United States and Mexico were separated by just a single chain-link fence to offer friends and family in San Diego and Tijuana a place to meet and spend time together. The park was a small acknowledgement of the effect of border politics on human lives; all the same, border politics made a dramatic comeback in 2009, when the US created a second fence, severely limiting access to the park. Eight kilometers (5 miles) to the East, pedestrians wishing to cross the border are funneled alongside twenty lanes of traffic, over a bridge with high fences on either side.

HDJ75 / T38 Studio

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

HDJ75 is the eighth house realized at a site where we are developing 12 houses.

Lopez Lujano House / Oficina 3

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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VIA Corporativo / Guillot Arquitectos

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The project consists of high efficiency and environmentally friendly standards, with the creation of a quality concept based on the parameters set by the Leed Certification (Leadrship in Energy and Environmental Design).

HDJ86 / T38 studio + Pablo Casals-Aguirre

Alexandra Molinare — Fri, 31 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000

On a site where we are designing 11 single family homes, HDJ86 is one of the first ones to be finished. Built in Tijuana, we have taken advantage of the increidible construction craft that is available, in which construction workers have worked in both the USA and Mexico, so they can perfectly execute construction techniques used in both countries.

Aria / T38 studio

Alexandra Molinare — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Located in a residential neighborhood composed by large single family houses in the city of Tijuana, we did an exercise of densification. Inserting a multifamily project that contains four units on a site intended for one single family home. The challenge was how to achieve this, without breaking the scale of the context, something that would blend in based on size, but break with the existing typologies of the surrounding sites.

Casa HDJ58 / T38 studio + Pablo Casals-Aguirre

Alexandra Molinare — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Single family house in Tijuana, on a site where we are developing ten other single family infill houses on sites that range from 300 sq m to 450 sq m.