Mexico city

ARCO CC is a cultural company within a historic 1930s house, the project brings together art, design, and architecture to become a collaborative space, home to the architecture office WORC and the specialized furniture studio VETA.   Located in San Miguel Chapultepec, a neighborhood full of history, characterized by residences that have been preserved over time. Eyes are drawn to buildings steeped in stories and character, endowing the surroundings with artistic value. The architecture embraces time, merging the past and present, radiating in every corner. Zaickz Moz Beside it lies the “Circuito Interior,” which in the past was a majestic avenue. With an exuberant median and colossal trees, this internal artery exud... Altro

a|911 developed the Executive Master Plan for Transportation, including the improvement of public spaces and the architectural design of the stations. Transportation is one of the most relevant issues in the Nezahualcóyotl area, partly due to the high population concentration, mobility needs, and largely due to the deficiency in road infrastructure and mass public transportation. The Neza-Chimalhuacán Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) will impact approximately 2 million people, providing a more efficient, fast, and comfortable transportation system. At the request of the Transconsult consultancy, a|911 is designing the stations, cycle paths, and public spaces to serve one of the poorest areas of the city. Moritz Bernoully Moritz... Altro

In the Roma district of Mexico City, four residential apartments rise up next to an ancient jacaranda tree.  Onnis Luque Steel planters run along a series of balconies that disappear between sturdy branches of purple flowers and hanging jasmine.  Onnis Luque A core system of vertical circulation divides the communal areas from the private ones. The middle of the building is connected by a stairwell. The pine wood steps are bathed in pale sunlight that streams in from a near window and transitions to a warm gold.  Onnis Luque To the south, a curtain of bamboo sweeps across the width of the back garden protecting views from outside gazes and filtering the intense light through its translucent leaves that emula... Altro

The building’s design is an exploration based on the traditional housing complexes and typologies of del Valle neighborhood in Mexico City; an urban layout where the street blocks feature pan coupé corners that create broad intersections. As a response to this specific situation, the scheme and building incorporate a diagonal sequence of spaces that transition from the public realm of the street towards the intimacy of the interior and private terraces and gardens. Caption Inside the scheme, the apartments are organized in such a way that there is no “back apartment”. The latter is possible through the combination of single and duplex typologies that have a relation towards the interior patios and gardens but... Altro

The CVC House is generated from the articulation of the garden´s exterior spaces, terraces and the central patio with the spaces that were required by the client, as a way to generate a dialogue between the built space and the open space. In addition to a sequence of open spaces with varying degrees of intimacy, that allow to pass gradually from the large space of the street to the green space at the back of the plot.  Rafael Gamo Inside a 3x3x3 grid, 10 volumes are distributed around a central patio. This way, the project intertwines two units that can be inhabited independently. Rafael Gamo A compact program within a porous massing, allows the interior spaces to have optimal conditions of sunlight and views without... Altro

Our project 'Cocina María Luisa' was selected to participate in the first ever Architecture Pavilion for the 'Abierto Mexicano de Diseño' or 'Mexican Design Open'. Jaime Navarro Instead of choosing to only exhibit images of the project, we decided to re-create the design with its essential items adapting it to the exhibition space, the fantastic jewel of early twentieth century architecture, the Postal Palace in the Historic Center of Mexico City. Jaime Navarro had to cover the marble top of one of the original tables set around the space with a folded black steel sheet, in order to keep it from harm; we built a wooden screen and covered it in volcanic stone, and brought our own steel volcano and charred wood table... Altro

NIU (nest in Catalan) evokes the creation of community within the space where one lives. This 4-level building with 54 housing cells is not a traditional residential project, it applies a model designed to share and cohabit in spaces created in search of developing human activity for a new generation of citizens who are looking for a place that gives them a sense of "belonging". The conceptual axis of the project is to generate complete habitable cells (a fully furnished space with a bathroom, kitchen-dining room, closet, bedroom and living room with all the services included) that allows its inhabitants to have privacy and independence in a building that favors belonging to something bigger: a community of diverse people, who share compat... Altro

The main interest of the project is to respond to a series of themes: the relationship between a steep topography and the new construction, clean energy production, economic maintenance aspects, a zero-energy home strategy and specifics customer’s needs are among the set of intentions that establish a philosophy of growth and enrichment for the specific natural site. Caption The structure is planted in three levels ranging from street level 0 (access), level -1 (all social areas) and level -2 (bedroom and private areas). The central volume of the house is oriented towards the south, acting as a thermal mass (thermostat device) thus, allowing all adjoining areas to be natural heated regulated. Caption As an economic strateg... Altro

Concepción Beistegui 811 is located in Colonia del Valle, south of Mexico City, an area that has undergone multiple changes since its inception and which today stands out as one of the areas with greater development and infrastructure for communication, transportation and services of Mexico.  Neighborhood life in the area is very enriching, you can have access to markets, large shopping centers, parks, cycle paths and in general it is a wooded area as few in Mexico City. There are two conditions that are changing the way of living in the city, one is mobility and another is the time that people spend in their homes, the building responds to these two premises. In this area the connectivity with the city, the way in which citiz... Altro