MEXTRÓPOLI in its 5th edition is the only forum in Latin America that brings together in over 4 days more than 52 thousand people designing city: students, citizens, professionals, tourists, creatives, public servants, artists, opinion leaders and experts in the field to generate knowledge , exchange and a new vision of the city through architecture. Under this event is proposed Pabellón ( ).
Méxtropoli has established itself as a unique opportunity to bring architecture to the people, and the Pavilion (  ) designed by Colectivo seis + Taller Paralelo + Kababie Arquitectos + Michan Architecture, is a quiet space in the middle of the busy and noisy Mexican capital, which highlights the tectonic and spatial conditions of architecture

Once finished Mextrópoli 2018, the materials of the pavilion will be donated for the reconstruction of a house in Xochimilco, south of Mexico City, affected by the last earthquake of 19-S.
 

Description of project by Colectivo seis + Taller Paralelo + Kababie Arquitectos + Michan Architecture

This pavilion was thought as a space for contemplation and reflection, which arises from the abstraction of a collapse.

This ephemeral threshold, thought as a space for contemplation and reflection, contains within a perfect volume a crater, our interpretation of the destruction caused by earthquakes. Perfect and orthogonal walls of the wall contain within it an inverted vault, a concavity inside which the user is presented with a space closed by four walls without a roof where reflection and memory take the main stage.

The pavilion (  ), as a symbol, is committed not only to and in the memory of the catastrophe and its perpetual echo, but also to the action of change.

After his short life in Mextrópoli 2018, pavilion (  ) will donate his partitions for the reconstruction of affected houses after the earthquakes of September 2017 in the town of San Gregorio Atlapulco, serving those people whose craters still feel and live.

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colectivo seis + Kababie Arquitectos + taller paralelo + Michan Architecture
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Advisors and promoters, Kababie Arquitectos, taller paralelo, Michan Architecture
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Durezza + Masonite + Gifan + Jaza
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Alameda Central. Mexico City. Mexico
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Michan Architecture is a studio based in Mexico City founded in 2010. The practice operates as a laboratory of architecture, exploring new possibilities within the discipline. They see architecture as a flirtation towards the built environment; a question towards the norm, a speculation of what the future can be.  

The studio has been awarded by the Architectural League of New York with The League Prize for Young Architects + Designers 2020. In 2019 they are recipients of  Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record Magazine, which honors 10 emerging practices from around the world. "That are demonstrating inventive approaches to shaping the built environment." DL1310 Apartment Building designed in collaboration with Young & Ayata received the 2019 Progressive Architecture Award from Architect Magazine. AL apartment received the American Architecture Prize in residential architecture 2017. In 2015 Z53 Social Housing won an Architizer Award, for Low cost housing. The work of the studio has been widely published and exhibit.

The practice is led by Isaac Michan Daniel. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Universidad Iberoamericana with studies at RMIT and a Master of Science in Architecture from Pratt Institute.He has taught at Universidad Anahuac, Universidad Iberoamericana and the AA Visiting School in Mexico City.

They pursue architecture as a material practice, hybridizing local craft with digital and analogue thinking. The work is a reaction to existing conditions, it strives to find a fine balance for the familiar, yet at precise completely weird. For us this midpoint is where the work is able to speak with the past without copying the recipes, while looking forward for new ways to misbehave mater and tectonics.

Since 2010 the studio has received the valuable contribution of the following people: Narciso Martinez, Eduardo Lorenzana, Denise Peralta,  Arturo Lezama, Alan Eskildsen, Omar Acevedo, Ciria Garcia, Elizabeth Frias, Daniel Amkie, Tamara Cortez, Jorge Sanchez, Juan Alan Gonzales, Daniela Ruiz, Victor Lima, Ehecatl Cabrera, Roman Vicenteño, Sonja Cabrera, Poleth Luna, Jose Luis Ramos, Montserrat Garciacesar, Christian Morales.
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Published on: March 19, 2018
Cite: "After collapse, ( ) Pavilion by Colectivo seis + Taller Paralelo + Kababie Arquitectos + Michan Architecture" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/after-collapse-pavilion-colectivo-seis-taller-paralelo-kababie-arquitectos-michan-architecture> ISSN 1139-6415
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