Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 4:04:14 GMT -5
Since the use of concrete began to be implemented in buildings, there are several architectural styles , mainly those with a postmodernist tendency (from brutalism to the most modest prefabricated houses), that present the material in its own essence ; that is, uncoated, proudly showing its texture and porosity. There is no doubt that, in recent decades, the most daring buildings in this sense have been promoted by the Public Administration .
In this entry we are going to present a very interesting example located in Mexico City . It is a community center promoted by the local government in which blue-dyed reinforced concrete is used and presented in a trapezoidal building with trees in its surroundings.
The community center is located in the Lomas de Chinese Student Phone Number List Becerra neighborhood of the Mexican capital, a rather disadvantaged space in the city located in a hilly area over a dense intersection of dynamic streets. The project was promoted by the federal government itself under the name PILARES, and the design was the work of the New York design studio WORKac and the local studio Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos and, its result, a multi-level concrete building with the purpose of "promoting the regeneration of social life.”
The trapezoidal plan of the site conditioned the project from the beginning. The building had to be located in a narrow location, so it was planned to build a multi-story building to achieve a total area of 470 m2. As the team stated: “in appearance, the volume is simple and compact, with a strong character that confirms its presence as a public building.”
The main characteristic of the building is its blue tone of reinforced concrete, a tribute to the color of the surrounding houses.
The project is part of a government program called PILLARS (acronym for Points of Innovation, Freedom, Art, Education and Knowledge) , which aims to build buildings adapted to the needs of the most needy and forgotten neighborhoods where they are proposed. Thus, for example, the program “is designed to host various types of classes and workshops to support skill development, as well as to bring cultural programming, learning opportunities and safe spaces for leisure and intergenerational gatherings to each neighborhood,” they point out from WORKac.
In total, 26 installations have been planned in different parts of the city for which local and international design studios were sought with programming guidelines that had to respond to the local context and had to be developed with broad community participation.
The design of the building was conceived with concrete walls. The material was chosen for its constructive and structural effectiveness, but also for its thermal and aesthetic qualities. The decision to dye it blue had its source of inspiration in the intense colors of the surrounding buildings , with which the project attempts to reflect the community and its architectural values. In fact, as the architects state, “the use of color in Mexican architecture is an element that has been transformed and reinterpreted by many artists and architects throughout generations.
In this entry we are going to present a very interesting example located in Mexico City . It is a community center promoted by the local government in which blue-dyed reinforced concrete is used and presented in a trapezoidal building with trees in its surroundings.
The community center is located in the Lomas de Chinese Student Phone Number List Becerra neighborhood of the Mexican capital, a rather disadvantaged space in the city located in a hilly area over a dense intersection of dynamic streets. The project was promoted by the federal government itself under the name PILARES, and the design was the work of the New York design studio WORKac and the local studio Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos and, its result, a multi-level concrete building with the purpose of "promoting the regeneration of social life.”
The trapezoidal plan of the site conditioned the project from the beginning. The building had to be located in a narrow location, so it was planned to build a multi-story building to achieve a total area of 470 m2. As the team stated: “in appearance, the volume is simple and compact, with a strong character that confirms its presence as a public building.”
The main characteristic of the building is its blue tone of reinforced concrete, a tribute to the color of the surrounding houses.
The project is part of a government program called PILLARS (acronym for Points of Innovation, Freedom, Art, Education and Knowledge) , which aims to build buildings adapted to the needs of the most needy and forgotten neighborhoods where they are proposed. Thus, for example, the program “is designed to host various types of classes and workshops to support skill development, as well as to bring cultural programming, learning opportunities and safe spaces for leisure and intergenerational gatherings to each neighborhood,” they point out from WORKac.
In total, 26 installations have been planned in different parts of the city for which local and international design studios were sought with programming guidelines that had to respond to the local context and had to be developed with broad community participation.
The design of the building was conceived with concrete walls. The material was chosen for its constructive and structural effectiveness, but also for its thermal and aesthetic qualities. The decision to dye it blue had its source of inspiration in the intense colors of the surrounding buildings , with which the project attempts to reflect the community and its architectural values. In fact, as the architects state, “the use of color in Mexican architecture is an element that has been transformed and reinterpreted by many artists and architects throughout generations.