Pabellón Centro de Cultura Ambiental CCA
Jorge Yáñez

Pabellón Centro de Cultura Ambiental

A-001 Architectural Workshop as Architects

Pabellón Centro de Cultura Ambiental (CCA) responds directly to the lack of environmental awareness that we experience as a society nowadays.

CCA seeks to create a model of urban governance that achieves a dynamic balance between socio-cultural, environmental, territorial, economic, and public policy aspects.

photo_credit Jorge Yáñez
Jorge Yáñez

How can we take care of something we don´t understand and know about?
The key element for transforming experience to consciousness was an ethnobotanical garden surrounding the pavilion, in which the biocultural heritage of the principal vegetal species of Mexico´s Valley are exhibited and divided into 5 categories: groceries, toxics, religious, medical, and those that help us in the construction; to emphasize our natural resources, viewpoints are located throughout the complex: these are basalt stone rings containing seven of the original endemic ecosystem of the region. 

The main construction is based on a hybrid system: a concrete slab with low CO2 emissions, vertical steel elements, and oxidized basalt walls that replace columns and function as load-bearing elements. 

photo_credit Jorge Yáñez
Jorge Yáñez

The Ethnobotanical Garden works as an extension of the pavilion's layout towards the outside. The rectangular plots are deployed on a series of platforms that follow the natural slope of the land and integrate harmoniously as a reminder of the pyramidal foundations of our native culture.

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Jorge Yáñez

The irrigation system takes advantage of the height differences between the platforms, so that by gravity the water from the bio-pond fed by water from Lago Menor is taken to each plot, facilitating its maintenance, reducing operating costs and returning excess water to the subsoil by an infiltration wetland.

CCA, a space that provides the conditions that allow visitors to enjoy the biodiversity, and raising awareness on the current situation of climate change and shed knowledge of the existing tools to stop and reverse it.

photo_credit Jorge Yáñez
Jorge Yáñez

Team:

Architects: Eduardo Gorozpe Fernández, a-001 Taller de arquitectura

Design Team: Oscar Renucci, Brenda Isabel Pérez, Manuel Carlos, Andrea Patlan, Andrea Valdivia, Isaac Uribe, Elizabeth Martínez, Ana Paula Arnau.

Structural Design: Fernando Calleja, Mauricio Pantoja

Instalations: Aldana+ Sánchez Ingenieros Arquitectos

Landscape: Jaime Schmidt, Ariet Murià

Bioloy y Ethnobotanics: Cátedra de Diplomacia y Patrimonio de la ciencia (Diego García y Parsifal Islas), Community developement: Francisco Ayala, Piero Barandiarán, Diseño de Lighting: Fobos Lighting Studio (Verónica Martínez, Daniel Delgado Y, Ethel Ortiz), Soil mechanics: David Méndez, Museografía: Concepto M,

Renders: Jorge Yañez Barranco

photo_credit Jorge Yáñez
Jorge Yáñez

Materials used:

Facade cladding: Concrete

Oxidized basalt stone

Flooring: Polished concrete

Doors: Natural american oak

Windows: Duovent

Roofing: Apparent concrete with geometrical latticework

Interior lighting: Fovos (team)

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