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Los Chocolates Community Development Center / Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000

The building concept responds to the needs and opportunities offered by the old neighborhood La Carolina in Cuernavaca’s downtown heart. A traditional neighborhood embedded in Cuernavaca sinuous topography with a high urban density and just a few places for recreation. The important research done by the Ministry of Culture of the state found that in that neighborhood and its surroundings there were over 25 orchestras with more than 25 members each, various soccer teams, many children and young people interested in silk-screen printing and photography as well the need for a common space where culture, recreation and sport would be a source of energy for their daily life, thus correcting social disruption among the neighborhoods as part of the historic site.

Iturbide Studio / Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 06:00:00 +0000

On a plot of 7x14 in the Barrio del Niño Jesús and just a few steps from Graciela Iturbide's house, a small tower of only three levels extruded in a literal way, extrudes its measurements in plan to become a solid piece of clay that de-constructs before its own materiality in very thin and almost imperceptible tensions of steel.

1800 Pavilion / Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo

Clara Ott — Sun, 12 May 2019 06:00:00 +0000

Pavilion 1800 is conceived as a tribute to the agave fields of the Tequila Valley, the pre-Hispanic topography of the Guachimontones, and the traditional processes of tequila production.

Oral-Criminal Court in Pátzcuaro / Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000

In 2010, the need arose in the State of Michoacán, Mexico, to begin planning the creation of a new infrastructure for its court spaces. The traditional judgments system would begin to migrate to a system of orality that implied not only a completely renewed scheme in the implementation of justice in the country, but also the need to create new spaces that allow the correct operation of this new system.