ENORME Studio to direct together with the local architects Juan Castillo and Miguel Heredia a new edition of the workshop: "Taller del Desierto" proposed by ISAD, Institute of Architecture and Design of Chihuahua, organizes each summer the workshop called “Taller del Desierto”.
"ARACHI" or the "urban alebrije" was designed by ENORME Studio as a great canopy that gathers all those communities and desires existing in the colony. They were working during the workshop with Mexican "popular" iconographies such as the artisanal and colorful work of the alebrijes, the symbols that define the mariachis or the traditional costumes of the Rarámuris or Tarahumara women, native of the Sierra de Chihuahua.

"ARACHI" becomes a magical place, a reference point in the park, at a crossroads, in a place of exchange and dialogue between all the neighbors. A place that should take care and be cared for by the neighbors of the colony.
 

Description of project by ENORME Studio

The ISAD, Institute of Architecture and Design of Chihuahua, organizes each summer the workshop called “Taller del Desierto”. This year they proposed to us, ENORME Studio to direct together with the local architects Juan Castillo and Miguel Heredia a new edition of the workshop, destined to build a small urban infrastructure in the Santa Cecilia neighborhood in Chihuahua.

In a small park, which is the heart of the colony, several communities and associations come together with different interests but with the same needs. On the one hand, a group of mothers, children and girls from Umbral Foundation try to become Mariachis, following in the footsteps of the founders of the colony. On the other, the parishioners continue to build themselves the church of Santa Cecilia, still unfinished but already in use. The association of Elders of the colony has become the caretakers of the park and they need an outdoor space ...

The workshop begins with the design of a participative dynamic with the neighbors of the colony, not with the objective of collecting individual desires of the present, but as a starting point for the construction of a collective imaginary of the future. The need for a large space of shade seems fundamental to host the performances of the Mariachis, to the parishioners who socialize after catechesis, to the groups of children and adolescents who leave to the park in the afternoon, to the mothers who take care of the child while they play on the slide or on the soccer field.

"ARACHI" or the "urban alebrije" is designed as a great canopy that gathers all those communities and desires existing in the colony. For this purpose, we worked during the workshop with Mexican "popular" iconographies such as the artisanal and colorful work of the alebrijes, the symbols that define the mariachis or the traditional costumes of the Rarámuris or Tarahumara women, native of the Sierra de Chihuahua. The whole construction process has been carried out by the students of the workshop together with neighbors who have spontaneously joined the same, receiving above all the support of the children of the colony, configuring the furniture and painting it with those colorful geometric patterns of the alebrijes.

"ARACHI" becomes a magical place, a reference point in the park, at a crossroads, in a place of exchange and dialogue between all the neighbors. A place that should take care and be cared for by the neighbors of the colony.

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ENORME Studio / www.enormestudio.es







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Local advisors
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Miguel Heredia / Juan Castillo
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Workshop participants
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Alexa Baca / Jesús Córdova / Luisa González / Nancy Guzmán / Arish Lara / Jonathan Olivas / Diana Ortiz / Abril Vázquez / Tania J. Castillo / Ariel Rosas / Jaheel Araiza / Julio Pérez / Denisse Salgado / Jessica Ortega / Danya L. Estrada / Diana Carolina Flores / Karen Araceli / Regina Ramírez / Valeria Pomian
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ISAD [Instituto de Arquitectura y Diseño de Chihuahua] / www.isad.edu.mx/
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Supporting Associations
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Fundación Umbral / Fundación A+bien
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ENORME Studio + Horacio Manriquez / Taller del Norte
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Colonia Santa Cecilia. Rio Sacramento Nte, 31137 Chihuahua, Mexico
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ENORME Studio is the evolution of three co-founders of PKMN Architectures, they're Carmelo Rodríguez, Rocío Pina and David Pérez. After having collaborated for ten years on more than one hundred projects they've just started with a new shared initiative that keeps the same radical approach to architecture. They design and build ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS based on industrial systems and typological innovation.

They're specialists in mobile systems design applied to housing, office design and retail. They have changed the traditional concept of room in architecture, creating spaces that are easily converted through simple gestures. They design and perform participation dynamics in the domain of city construction through their creative services platform CIUDAD CREA CIUDAD and the creation of CITIZENSHIP BRAND IDENTITIES. Their aim is to foster alternative ways to examine urban issues and to motivate the creation of a proactive citizen culture. They design and apply TACTICAL URBANISM tools that transfer teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics into public and private space design and management. Their aim is to give the city back to citizens as an emotional, plural and relational space.
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Published on: October 1, 2018
Cite: "ARACHI Urban Alebrije from Santa Cecilia by ENORME Studio" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/arachi-urban-alebrije-santa-cecilia-enorme-studio> ISSN 1139-6415
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