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arquitectura orgnica
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And it is true thot mon should creote his own poth even os he
wolks. lt moy be thot the history of the nomods of the eorth is
os long os thot of sedentory mon ond thot we should evo/uote
which of the two lifestyles tought mon most. The nomodic
woy of living wos conceived ond followed down through the
centuries by the children's children of the first nomods: todoy
their voices are fe/t. barely a whisper to those who only know
how to learn. Perhaps it is the second story, that of sedentary
man, that is learned and tells us the story that once-upon-atime resounded in the world.
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This unity of mon with his environment embodies total harmony,
perhaps life the way it wi/1 be in Paradise. in the Garden of
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And this, in itself, is what gives it such great historie and sociocultural value. Aesthetica/ly speaking, architecture a/lows us
to savor joy; its stoney reasoning and its own iconography
give us the opportunity to enjoy art experiencia/ly. The work
of Daniel Arredondo and Javier Senosiain offers multiple
voices that branches off like roads from Borges, a seductive
example of contemporary architecture. In this architecture
a series of prismatic bodies of majestic weight and volume
is imposed and takes root in space itself. Some of these are
reminiscent of the Prehispanic Age and the expressive force
of the mexican mountains with the solidity of its forms, the
proportion of their angles and sloping fines as they simply
and rhythmica/ly play with the fines, textures and color, whi/e
others play with the noble materials of the earth. The work of
these architects attempts to transform the landscape without
damaging it, translating the design and harmony of its shapes
and three-dimensional volumes with p/ayful civility.
Similar/y, emerging from the bowels of the earth in another
time, a series of vo/uptuous, free, refreshing, playful, oneiric
dunes of moldable metal arises, expanded by the land yet
at the so me time an intrinsic part of it. The fines are unbroken
and the volumes continue attaining spaces that look like
monolithic sculptures. As contradictory as it may seem, the
seduction in the purity of these forms is found in the barraque
heritage that in one way or another surrounds the spaces,
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Oficinas en condominio
Condominium Offlces
Fans may come in one of many d ifferent textures for they hove
b een c ratted in many kin ds of sott, flexible materials such as
tea thers, paper arid cloth. lt they are mad e of cardboard or
metal, they a re stiffer, more rigid and, if made o t wooden sticks,
they will teel wrinkly to the to uch. Furthermore ... we believe that
buildings a /so hove all these characteristics.
The office building consists of a basem ent and tour floors with a
mezzanine a nda terrace. In arder to meet the needs that this kinCJ
of building incurs, it was decided to take maximum advantage of
all the features available on each leve/. There are two offices on
each floor, c reating p rivacy and a quiet working environment.
Restrooms are located at the very heart of the building.
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In arder to a ttain the characteristics outlined above, a wedgeshaped space in front was cut into the building like a slice of
cake or pie. This seemingly unimportant detail modified the
c/assic square-shaped office space.
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over the elevator shaft from sight. This slender struc ture, besides
contributing a visual vanishing point, is a source of light a nd
natural ventilation.
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Este a sentamiento es un condominio horizontal
integrado por cuatro casas y ubicado en una esquina. En el rea
que conforma la esquina del predio, se dispuso un jardn de uso
comn. Esta propuesta se hizo con el fin de respetar una futura
afectacin y de dotar al condominio de reas verdes.
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Built one year befare the other. the eastern house was planned
taking the topography of the lot into consideration and using
triang/es that point toward the south. For the purpose of adapting
to the natural slope of the land. two bridges. which start at the
entrence, were hung, one accessing the service oreas ond the
other providing main entry to the homes; a t that point oreas were
odded, some higher a nd some lower, creating different living
spoces social ond intimate, priva/e ond dependen t. In the
second house, one can see rectangular prisms superimposed o ver
each other like giant dominoes, which resolve various problems
posed by the functions and interactions of the required spaces
ond create o force that brings the inside and outside oreas
into harmony. The ftrst house clings to the Earth in an attempt to
become one with it; the second house seems to noat, opening
her wings to become one with the Wind.
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The idea f.or the projec t was first conceived ond took its
Jikeness from o peanut shell: two roomy o val spaces with a lot o f
light, connected by a low, narrow, dimly lit passagewoy. The ideo
for this proposal was based on the elemen tal funclions required
by man: o place to live ond fe llowship with others, which would
include a living room, dining room, ond kitchen, ond another place
for sleeping, with a dressing room and both. The original concept is
embodied in two lorge spoces: diurnol ond nocturnal.
The house was designed with the desire to feel, when one enters,
like he is going underground, conscious o f how singular the spoce
wos, without Josing the integrotion of the inside with the green,
naturol landscape o utside.
Once the topogrophic study was finished, the location of trees was
given special attention so that they would not hove to be moved
or token out oltogether to make room for the structure. Several
clay models were created, onf:t dedicated to the analysis ond
design of the shapes, volumes ond spaces outside and the other
to plan the inside spaces. Both of these mode/s were developed
throughout the course of the entire project with the interest and
intensity of an important sculpture.
The first fines were drawn a little like lyric painters might hove drawn
them, allowing the fines to curve and move at will while p loying
with free forms, then turning the compass and giving the curved
ruler free rein. In other words, the sinuous wall is serpen tine in noture,
winding and wrapping itself aro und free spaces thereby bringing
about a p layful process in the design, olwoys seeking o soulherly
orientation as it moves around existing trees and slides down s/opes.
Like the music written by a composer, invo/untorily but nevertheless
consciously, it final/y generated a form that reminds one of the soft
material an embryo is wropped in.
Once the construction stage was reoched, a cross was d rawn in the
center of the property, which served os a reference for a system of
Cortesian coordinotes. This mode placement of the center of the
eire/es eosier. Using this as o base, a hose, kept in p lace with stakes,
was employed to outline the walls of the house. This accom plished,
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ternperofutes nside ore cool. ond when lhe cold winter comes.
temperotures inside remoin worm. This meons lhot the soil thot
covers the house will heot up when winter orrives ond cool down
when summer comes. thus moinloining o constan! temperoture of
64 to 73 F oll yeor long. keeping the house worm tn the winter ond
cool tn the summer. The evoporotion plus tronsprotton of the lown.
plonts ond ttees refreshes ond oxygenotes the interior thereby
preventing otmospheric dryness. dust inflltrotion. ond pollutonts. A
relotive humidity overoging between 40% ond 70% is conserved oll
yeor long in this microclimote. In other words. the green. vegetoble
epidermis functions like o nose thot filters dust ond ot the sorne
time mointoins stoble temperotures ond o relotively comfortoble
leve! of humidity inside; oll of these chorocteristics help keep the
inhobitonts free of resprotory problems ond oilments.
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When one looks at the building for the first time. five interconnected
vo/umes of spoce con be cleorly distinguished: the wotchmon 's
station. o gronary. genero/ services. ond an engine room with
maintenance ond production. Each one of these oreas was
designed with the possibility of fu ture expansion in mind and
without affecting the operation of the others.
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The refreshing green colors in the vegetotion ond the blue of the
sky controst with the hoppy, worm. vibront colors of the wolls. os if
port of the identity of the stote of Guonojuoto.
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Ciudad de la investigacin en humanidades
Research Co/lege of Humanities
1987
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Ampliacin
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La casa orgnica se dise c on una sola recmara; sin
embargo. al crecer la familia se vio la necesidad de ampliarla ;
esta extensin se c onect a la parte media del tnel original
de d o nde salen dos brazos. el que a sciende y sube al estudio
pasando c erca del c uarto azul-de televisin- y el que desciende.
que llega al cuarto de las nias con salida al jardn; por medio
de una puerta ve ntana pro te gida por un c opete que forma una
resbaladilla. Para c onservar privada se construy el estudio en la
parte e levada c on una privilegiada vista al Parque Nac io nal de
los Remedios. quedando una terraza con jac uzzi semi cubierta en
la parte baja.
El funcionamiento y las vistas desde el interior. die ron como
resultado en el exterior la forma imaginaria de un tiburn. Este
modo e minentemente libre de proyectar espacios orgnic os
permite que los resultados de la forma ro mpan con la rig idez de
la geometra y la c uadratura de la raz n. Tener el estudio e n un
tibur n es algo que quiz Bretn hubiera a p reciado para disfrutar
de un onrico movimiento estruc tural que lleva al surrealismo
arquitec tnico. La estructura monoltic a es d e ferrocem ento; las
recmaras semienterradas. trabajan c omo cimentaci n evitando
de esta manera el volteo del Tiburn.
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Inflado de la neumtica.
lnflation of fhe neumafc.
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The first tloor surrounds the central patio and is separated from
it by a corridor that opens out onto the patio through bays,
which are framed by arches in the shape of exact semicircles.
The kitchen, dining room, living room, and study, where the
inhabitants enjoy social activities with family and friends, are
/ocated around the ambulatory corridor.
The patio is the heart of every house. The Chinese cal/ ita "Gift
from Heaven" that supp/ies fresh air, light, and rainwater to the
home. Besides climatologica/ advantages, this setup affords
visual, acoustical, and psycho/ogica/ privacy, making the patio
a pleasant focal point from any angle of the dwel/ing.
There is a fountain in the exact center of the patio, which stands
out as the visual, radial center of the en tire building. The water
falls from the twe/ve points of the star into a tranquil pool of
water. Evaporation from the water humidifies the air, and this,
along with the ornamental azaleas, affords a humid, refreshing
environment. The house branches out from the fountain like the
spokes of a whee/, and the eye natural/y tends to follow the
direction of the wal/s toward the fountain. In ancient convents
and monasteries, the fountain also provided drinking water
for the communities. Nevertheless, the water with its trickling
murmur was the implantation of Arab sensitivities in a New World
environment. In some way the effect has been recreated in this
residence at the end of the second millennium.
The stairway from one tloor to another is bathed in the /ight
of a multi-colored star made out of stained glass located in a
cylindrical space, establishing a sort of rising-falling rhythm that
is linked with the space-time concept played out moment by
moment in the ever-changing variations of light.
Traffic on the second tloor is covered with a low half-dome that
surrounds the patio below. Para/le/ to this there is a transitional
e/ement, a more peaceful orea where gentle arching bays
frame entry to the "cel/s" and library, which are covered by a
higher, unbroken dome.
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El proyec to arquitectnic o se encontr con un terreno
irregular de 5,000 m 2 Con topografa muy acc identada
debido a que una caada con encinos atraviesa el lugar
longitudinalmente. Tan slo un 5% del terreno queda con ligera
pendiente junto al pequeo frente que da a la calle. Ha b a
algunas cuevas colapsadas producto de la extraccin de
tepuja l o tepetate bofa -material utilizado para la fabricacin
de tabiques ligeros requeridos en construcciones de mediados
del siglo XX. Existan otras cuevas que fueron colapsadas por el
fraccionador al extraer la tierra; generando depresiones a cada
lado de la caada, donde una de ellas produce una especie
de crter. De todas las cuevas se conserv slo una - la ms
confiable- que mide aproximadamente 50 m. de largo por 6 m.
de ancho.
Ahora lo accidentado resultaba un reto para e l proyecto,
para la ubicacin del serpentario; las reas verdes se respetan
aprovechando pendientes y depresiones para dejar libre,
finalmente, un 98% de campo, espac io y bosque.
En medio de la c aada que a traviesa el terreno, frente a la
c abeza de Quetzalcatl se desva el agua pluvial creando un
estanque. Por otro lado, el agua que desechan las casas, pasa a
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The sociallife of this home flows insid e the Nautilus without any
divisions. Going up the spiral stairs, continuing through the hall,
going through the te/evision room sheltered in the Nautilus belly
and flowing over the spiral stairs to the study room, where you
c an view the mo untain 's /andscape. Behind the Nautilus are
the bedrooms, dressing rooms, bathrooms and the kitchen; i. e.
the services and intimate orea . The metaphor is to feel like an
interna/ inh abita nt o f the snail, /ike a mollusk going from one
c ha mber to ano the r, like a symbio tic dweller of a huge fossil
materna l cloister. In the mollusk m antle, the glands located
along the edge produce a c a/cium carbonate /iquid, which
hardens the shell shape. In c ertain way, the liquid mixes crystals
in different layers tha t increase the stre ng th of the outside walls,
leaving a mother-o f-pearl finish in the inside.Simi/ar to the mollusk
slime is the ferrocement, a construction element used to build
this house; it is a p lastic material that c an be molded almost like
mode/ing clay in the hands o f a c hild .
The grounding, walls, floors, cei/ings and furniture work like a 1.57
inches thick ferrocement eggshe/1. lt is worth mentioning that
what gives the structural rigidity is the main shape in continuous
spira l, o f do ub le curva ture. Litera l/y, the dwelling place is a big
snai/ w hic h struc ture works as such, an evocative she/1: resistance,
protection, shelter .. .
For ventila tion, there are two und erground ducts. Due to their
/ocation, whe n the outside air enters the house, it gets cold or
hot according to the yar's season, d uring hot weather the air
is chifled and refreshes the house flowing through the snail in spiral
pushin g the hot air to the top and going out through the upper part
of the Nautilus. On the other hand, when the outdoor temperature
is co/d, the air that comes in through the duct warms the house.
Since the beginning of the works the clients were interested in
painting the indoor wal/s with any material that wou/d resemble the
mother-of-pearl of the Nautilus and insisted on copying the ocher
fine pattern of the snail for the outside. The argument was not very
convincing because there was the risk of making a stage; but since
the beginning they identifled themse/ves with the crustaceous
shape. Th e test was conducted painting one of the sea/e models to
hove a precise idea of the term and when we observed the model
we were surprised to see that this flnish was the ideal for the fac;ade.
Undoubtedly, the snail determined the continuity of each of the
formal, structural, spatial and functional details of this building. The
demand drove us to the wisdom of the original to flnd the solutions
to our doubts and to the problems.
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