Patios that generate university social life. Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero
25/06/2021.
[Santiago de Querétaro] Mexico
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The architects of Estudio Zero have designed the project of a student residence in the Mexican city of Santiago de Querétaro, located in the central part of the country.
The building is near the campus of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and a few minutes from the city center so that students can have both educational services and other basic services at hand.
The project seeks to combine the classic public and private program of a student residence so that priority is given to socialization and coworking. In this way, the architects create a building with a large number of leisure and coworking spaces, making the most of the lot on which it is located.
The building is near the campus of the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, and a few minutes from the city center so that students can have both educational services and other basic services at hand.
The project seeks to combine the classic public and private program of a student residence so that priority is given to socialization and coworking. In this way, the architects create a building with a large number of leisure and coworking spaces, making the most of the lot on which it is located.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero. Photograph by Ariadna Polo.
Type plan. Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero.
Roof plan. Habiteé Urban Dorms by Estudio Zero.
The residence designed by Estudio Zero is distributed around three large patios that help to ventilate and illuminate the interior spaces of a slender building. Along with the ground floor and landscaped rooftop, these patios create a wealth of spaces in which students can mingle and work together.
The rooms, all of the same size, are distributed around the vertical communication core that has a peculiar concrete lattice that provides lighting and ventilation to this space. This nucleus of communication is proposed in such a way that it is a meeting place that communicates with the rest of the public program, fostering interactions between students.
The rooms, all of the same size, are distributed around the vertical communication core that has a peculiar concrete lattice that provides lighting and ventilation to this space. This nucleus of communication is proposed in such a way that it is a meeting place that communicates with the rest of the public program, fostering interactions between students.
Description of project by Estudio Zero
A proposal for a set of student residences in Queretaro, which, due to its design, promotes the cohesion and social inclusion of students by providing an accessible space for study and decent work, promoting vertical life in internal and external spaces.
Given the opportunity to build a student residence project with a different concept within the vicinity of a university with the intention of changing the perspective of the area, Habitee Urban Dorms was born.
Being in a complex due to its physical characteristics with very variable width and length dimensions, the priority of the project was the search for a good orientation and tools that facilitate both lighting and natural ventilation as well as the use of maximum heights. allowed.
In this way, the project is embedded in 3 patios of different sizes, the first to differentiate a clear access, the second to generate a central circulation within two wings of rooms, and the third to let the building around it breathe. The project ends facing north, benefiting that all the rooms are not delimited by an opaque wall but are permeated by ventilation, natural light and views.
The project consists of a ground floor where the public program embraces the patios created generating different sensations of serenity and allows interaction between residents to be a must. Subsequently, the private program is located on the following 4 levels ending with a roof terrace with privileged views of the city.
The rooms are divided into two wings of the same proportions on each level, giving way to bedrooms of similar size and quality of space, linked by a core of vertical circulation perforated by a concrete lattice that naturally ventilates and illuminates the public space within them. levels that allow adequate programming for residents.
The intention is to promote vertical life in internal and external spaces within the building, seeking verticality from the perspective that can be generated in level 0, raising solid exposed concrete walls and perforated only by the space occupied by the corridors that communicate the rooms. to finish with a steel hat that is part of the planter that delimits the rooftop and works as a natural railing.
Thus, the project ends up promoting cohesion and social inclusion inside and outside an area, solving a need for a service and proposing the stimulation of an already traveled area that can be more friendly with the passer-by and create new urban dynamics between students and people. that inhabits the area.
Thus, the project ends up promoting cohesion and social inclusion inside and outside an area, solving a need for a service and proposing the stimulation of an already traveled area that can be more friendly with the passer-by and create new urban dynamics between students and people. that inhabits the area.
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Architects
Estudio Zero.- Andrés Martínez Conde, Arturo Hernández Mendoza, Jonás Martínez Reséndiz.
Client
Location
St. Felipe Ángeles, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.
Photography
Jonás Martínez, Arturo Hernández. Estudio zero
Established in 2016 Estudio Zero is a young architecture workshop with origin in the Mexican city of Querétaro, currently formed by the Architects Jonás Martínez and Arturo Hernández, who graduated from the Itesm Campus Qro in 2015, with different international participation in countries such as Spain, Italy, and the United States.
The Firm was born from the need to define and create spaces with an architecture that responds to the needs of the contemporary, but without ignoring the urban needs of the cities and the intentions of the clients through a typological analysis to establish the distinction between Content (program) and Form.
They are looking for a palpable architecture, that expresses the origin of both the place and its materials and processes, where the construction processes can be appreciated as layers that come together to form a single object that spatially generates a certain sensation, but that at the same time respond to the environment prioritizing vegetation and landscape.
The study aims to generate projects that seek a clear and thoughtful relationship between spaces, where the connection between form and content is translated into "inhabiting the spaces", without neglecting the programmatic, economic, and social needs of its clients.
They believe that architecture exists thanks to construction methods and processes and that at the same time they determine the quality of the project. They are interested in delving into spatial quality, in working with available resources and seeking planning, but without underestimating improvisation to seek sustainable solutions within the craftsmanship of architecture, since they believe that each project is unique and must be studied from a coherent perspective and referring to the context, from the tectonic to the pragmatic, since Zero.
The Firm was born from the need to define and create spaces with an architecture that responds to the needs of the contemporary, but without ignoring the urban needs of the cities and the intentions of the clients through a typological analysis to establish the distinction between Content (program) and Form.
They are looking for a palpable architecture, that expresses the origin of both the place and its materials and processes, where the construction processes can be appreciated as layers that come together to form a single object that spatially generates a certain sensation, but that at the same time respond to the environment prioritizing vegetation and landscape.
The study aims to generate projects that seek a clear and thoughtful relationship between spaces, where the connection between form and content is translated into "inhabiting the spaces", without neglecting the programmatic, economic, and social needs of its clients.
They believe that architecture exists thanks to construction methods and processes and that at the same time they determine the quality of the project. They are interested in delving into spatial quality, in working with available resources and seeking planning, but without underestimating improvisation to seek sustainable solutions within the craftsmanship of architecture, since they believe that each project is unique and must be studied from a coherent perspective and referring to the context, from the tectonic to the pragmatic, since Zero.
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