Mexico City / 2017
Academic proposal
THE IDEA
Opposite Colegio de las Vizcaínas, a cultural center connects two urban fronts through courtyards and passages. The project explores how to continue a historical language and open it to the public life of the park and city.
THE SPACES / 01 VIEWS
From the whole to the detail. Visualizations, photographs and drawings, with their sources identified in each image. Open an image to browse the gallery.
Opposite Colegio de las Vizcaínas, the proposal explores how a contemporary building can engage with a historical language. An analysis of roofs, independent rooms, arcades and courtyards provides the starting point for organizing the cultural center.
Courtyards and passages cross the complex, linking streets with different activities. The architecture is proposed as a permeable filter toward the city and an open setting for musical activity in the park.
Stepped volumes, vertical circulation and open spaces are studied through plans, a longitudinal section and physical models. The 2017 academic project was developed by Francisco Serrano Hess and Fernanda Montiel, with tutors Héctor Delmar and José Antonio Rage.
THE SKETCHBOOK / DRAWINGS AND PROCESS
Another way to understand a project: see how it was conceived. A selection of drawings from its original documentation.
Stepped heights and voids connect public life with the interior spaces.
Original project documentationTHE ARCHIVE / 08 SHEETS
Plans, studies and material from the original portfolios, brought together to explore this project in detail.
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