Build complexity. Havre 69 by AT103 architects.
26/11/2014.
[Mexico City] Mexico.
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA.
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA.
The proposal by AT103 architects, in Mexico City, is part of the process of urban regeneration and remodelation of buildings that are being made in the most established and oldest areas of the city.
Inside vision from apartment. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Outside staircase. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Bicycle Storage. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Terrace. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Inside vision from apartment. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Southeast elevation. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo. Click above to see larger image.
Main façade. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo. Click above to see larger image.
Outside staircase. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Outside staircase and corridor. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Inner staircase. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Vision from old apartment. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
First floor level. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Image courtesy of AT103. Click above to see larger image.
3rd floor level. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Image courtesy of AT103. Click above to see larger image.
5th floor level. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Image courtesy of AT103. Click above to see larger image.
Longitudinal section. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Image courtesy of AT103. Click above to see larger image.
Cross section. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Image courtesy of AT103. Click above to see larger image.
Elevation. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Image courtesy of AT103. Click above to see larger image.
Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo. Click above to see larger image.
Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo. Click above to see larger image.
Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo. Click above to see larger image.
Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo.
Night vision. Havre 69 by AT103 architects. Photography © Rafael Gamo. Click above to see larger image.
The architects propose a smaller urban condenser, more dense because increase to 12 the number of housing and includes a broader program in which shops, offices and a restaurant are introduced. A project between new and old spaces that wants to sew.
Description of the project by AT103
Havre 69 is located on the south side of Paseo de la Reforma, in Colonia Juarez, one of the most exclusive areas in Mexico City during the early 1900’s, peripheral suburbia that over the years has seen various transformations.
This privileged residential neighborhood has faced many changing moments: a revolution war in the early 20th century, two destructive earthquakes -1957 and 1985-, and frozen rents for over 50 years. These phenomena have changed the face of this particular area of the city; the empty lots left from the earthquakes, change of land use and under value of the land have been its main problems. Now the new regulations that allow more density, a better public transportation and some regeneration programs in Paseo de la Reforma and the city’s downtown have renewed the neighborhood.
The old 19th century structure we worked on was a building that accommodated four upper middle class families more tan a hundred years ago. Our restoration project fragmented these houses into 12 housing units, plus offices and two commercial front stores: a bakery and a low cost prefix menu establishment.
The project opens up to the street, and brings it in through narrow plazas on the sides; it creates a new relationship between the city, the neighborhood and the abandoned old houses. Rather than a single intervention, Havre 69 opens to the immediate context, regenerating the neighborhood’s fractured texture.
Both the building and the intervention program seek to make maximum use of existing elements and build to a minimum, thus ensuring that the spaces multiply their potential for use and offer various forms of occupation. The building is constructed between two open areas, allowing to leverage resources such as natural ventilation and lighting, achieving minimum energy waste and environmental impact.
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-
Architects.- AT103. Francisco Pardo + Julio Amezcua.
Design team.- Luis Guizar, Karen Burkart, Alan Orozco, Jose Luis Fajardo, Stephan Rasinger, Aarón Rivera.
Progress.- Reurbano. Rodrigo Rivero Borrell Wheatley, Alberto Kritzler Ring, Cristhian Dávila, Sergio Rojas, Uriel Becker.
Dates. Project.- 2011. Building.- 2013
Location.-Mexico City.
Surface.- 1,506.63 m²
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Francisco Pardo and Julio Amezcua. AT103
Francisco Pardo and Julio Amezcua.
AT103 is an architectural firm founded in 2001 by Julio Amezcua and Francisco Pardo, with the aim of researching and creating new techniques for architectural development and construction in the contemporary city.
Francisco Pardo and Julio Amezcua make architecture with unique constructive and esthetic qualities, thanks in part to their training both in Mexico and abroad. They have developed projects on different scales, from houses, residential buildings, offices, cultural spaces and television stages to the Ave Fenix Fire station: a project that earned them a silver medal in the 2008 Mexican Architecture Biennial and the first place in the Best Institutional Building category at the International Design Festival.
In 2009 they were awarded the Emergent Voices of America Prize by the Architectural League of NY. Later on, they got a silver medal in the 2010 Mexican Architecture Biennial for the Lisboa7 apartment building, and another one for the TK139 apartment building in the 2012 edition. On that same year, they got the Pan-American Architecture Biennial in Quito’s Grand Prize with the Lisboa7 project.
They were named by London’s Wallpaper magazine one of the World’s 50 hottest young Architects Practices, and ranked by Icon magazine of London as one of the fifty design and architecture firms that are shaping the future.
With a strong academic approach, Francisco Pardo and Julio Amezcua have taught at Pratt Institute, UPenn, UNAM and Iberoamericana. They have lectured all over Mexico and other countries, dedicated to motivate and shape the thinking of future architects through their personal and professional life experience, based on their former education at Paris, Los Angeles, Mexico City and New York.
Main projects.-
Havre 69, Mixed use building, Mexico City, 2013.
CCD Digital Culture Center, Mexico City, 2012.
Arena Teques, Linear park, Tequesquitengo, Morelos.
TV Azteca, TV Studios, Mexico City.
TK139, Apartment Building, Mexico City, 2011.
AGN- Culture Center, Mexico City, in process, 2010.
Lisboa 7, Apartment Building, Mexico City, 2008.
Ozuluama House, Mexico City.
Espacio Chapultepec, Housing Project, Tijuana, Baja California.
Ave Fénix Fire Station, Mexico City, 2006.
