Native structure studio Erre Q Erre has created the Environmental Tradition Heart, a stone-clad pavilion and backyard that replaces a car parking zone in Bosque de Chapultepec, a big park within the centre of Mexico Metropolis.
The 90,000-square-metre venture was designed as an “environmental node” to strengthen the park’s surroundings biologically and culturally by including extra numerous plants and public areas.
The Environmental Tradition Heart includes a big stone pavilion and a backyard crisscrossed with “biocultural walks” meant to enhance pedestrian connectivity on this part of the park.
It’s a part of town’s grasp plan to revitalize the park and the venture was chosen through a contest held collectively by the native and federal governments.
Its design is supposed to enhance the world’s biodiversity and replicate the assorted biomes discovered within the Valley of Mexico area.
“The spatial configuration of the venture arises from strategically finding the Heart for Environmental Tradition,” stated Erre Q Erre.
“It’s delicately included into the geometry of the lake and a pure slope with current vegetation, which gives an optimum house to position a set of volcanic stone steps that function containment, relaxation and contemplation for the brand new panorama or environmental setting.”
On the centre of the complicated is the semi-circular discussion board. It has a 2,000-square-metre roof made out of black volcanic stone that slopes up from the bottom and is supported by large metal trusses.
Beneath the overhanging roof, extra stone was used to clad pillars that punctuate the curved glazing that gives views of the gardens. Inside, a stone flooring and stone seating is framed by the semi-circular construction.
The construction references the volcanic landscapes of Pedregal, a volcanic panorama within the southern a part of town.
“The architectural language of the pavilion goals to be yet another aspect of the panorama,” stated Erre Q Erre.
“This has been achieved due to the combination of the geometry of the roof with the topography of the positioning, and with the usage of supplies already used within the Chapultepec forest, resembling volcanic stone.”
Cemex Vertua concrete was used for the muse, which the studio stated diminished the emissions by 50 per cent. The formwork for the concrete was reused within the inside finishes.
Rainwater assortment channels had been included within the roof and within the discussion board space, with the water saved in assortment tanks and used to assist irrigate the gardens.
The gardens embody a wide range of vegetation separated into plots by stone partitions.
A main irrigation channel runs from the adjoining lake and hyperlinks up with smaller channels that may be opened and closed.
The pathways via the backyard take formal inspiration from the lake shore and all lead in direction of the “node” of the pavilion and discussion board.
“The Biocultural Walks undertake trajectories within the type of a concentric spiral that provides continuity to the curved strains that outline the define of Menor Lake,” stated the studio.
“Its excursions begin from the present cultural tools at totally different factors across the perimeter of the land and intuitively come collectively within the Heart for Environmental Tradition,” the studio added.
Different tasks that use volcanic stone embody Taller Mauricio Rocha’s enlargement of Diego Rivera and Juan O’Gorman’s Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico Metropolis and Intersticial Arquitectura’s house in Querétaro, which rests on a plinth made out of the fabric.
The pictures is by Marcos Betanzos.
Challenge credit:
Structure: Rafael Ponce Ortiz (lead architect), Juan Ansberto Cruz (venture associate), Margarita Gorbea Angeles, Cesar Ávila, Oscar Díaz Gaspar, Abigail Esparza, Diego Bueno de la Paz, Valerio López Acevedo
Panorama engineering: Juan Ansberto Cruz Gerón, Paola Patricia González Ordaz, Fabiola Alvarado, Gerardo Tapia, Eduardo Santiago, Perla Flores
Vegetable proposal: Secretaría del Medio Ambiente, Rodrigo Canjay Torres, Pamela Vélez, Fortino Acosta
Engineering and environmental design: Dr. Alejandro de Alva, Amado Ríos, Edgar Ojeda Sotelo, Oscar Ramírez, Coral Rojas Serrano, Javier Cuauhtémoc Blancas Ponce
Geometry and structural design: Eric Valdez Olmedo, Axayacatl Sánchez
Museography: Adriana Miranda
Challenge coordinator Chapultepec Nature and Tradition: Gabriel Orozco
