Mexican studio TO Arquitectura has labored with the local people to create a music faculty that encompasses a vault constituted of recycled and donated masonry in Mexico Metropolis.
Referred to as the Kithara Music Kiosk, the 645-square foot (60-square metre) venture sits on an 860-square foot (80-square metre) nook lot within the Yuguelito neighbourhood. TO Arquitectura accomplished the venture in March of 2022.
Yuguelito is positioned in Iztapalapa, an space that experiences excessive ranges of battle resulting from violence, poor soil high quality and water shortage.
Set alongside the bottom of the Xaltocan Volcano, an earthquake in 1985 diminished Yuguelito to rubble, and the neighborhood has been working to enhance the soil for development and to re-establish the residential space for the final forty years.
In 2015, the Kithara Mission – a classical guitar schooling program primarily based in Boston, Massachusetts – arrived within the space to supply free music classes to the neighborhood utilizing some of the fashionable devices on the planet.
To indicate their appreciation, the neighborhood members donated a small plot subsequent to the native library for a guitar classroom, and TO Arquitectura held a workshop with the guitar college students to develop the designs for a music faculty.
The ensuing construction is an oblong area that sits diagonally on its web site, orienting towards the volcano and the intersection moderately than the road grid. This enables the constructing to be opened as much as the views when it serves as a stage for occasions within the neighbourhood.
The workforce employed recycled and donated supplies and labour from three native builders.
The open-air, pavilion-like vault consists of various kinds of donated masonry, together with pink brick, cement blocks, volcanic stone, and a pink stone known as tezontle.
The 2-storey vault serves as a shelter for a wood stand fabricated from reclaimed lumber. A set of concrete stairs climbs as much as a set of raked, wood bleachers that type the classroom area.
A small restroom is tucked beneath the staircase and the touchdown is used as a educating platform.
The underside of the bleachers capabilities as a bandstand with double-height wood doorways swinging open to the neighborhood. The reclaimed wooden was lower into small sections and assembled like tiles over the doorways to create a assorted sample.
Mild and airflow by way of the ground-floor area from doorways on every finish, whereas mismatched ceramic pendant lights function a small suspended element.
The mix of wooden and masonry creates “an acoustic stability between sound absorption and reverberation,” the studio stated.
Built-in steel scuppers run alongside the intersection of the vault and the wall and seize rainwater that’s piped into a group chamber and a small backyard.
“These days Kithara Music Kiosk has surpassed its meant makes use of, and the neighborhood has used it for making totally different occasions like theatre arts shows, choir live shows and various kinds of social gatherings,” the studio stated.
“It has a private area scale but it surely positively resonates as a collective area.”
Kithara Music Kiosk has been shortlisted within the small structure venture class of the Dezeen Awards 2023.
TO leaders Carlos Facio and José Amozurruita are additionally members of Mexico Metropolis’s Colectivo C733 with Gabriela Carrillo, Eric Valdez, and Israel Espín. Collectively they’ve created a brick music faculty with a coconut wooden roof in Nacajuca and a market with an inverted trapezoid-shaped roof construction in Matamoros.
The images is by Jaime Navarro and Santiago Arau.
Mission credit:
Structure: TO (Carlos Facio, José Amozurrutia)
Mission workforce: Lizeth Ríos, Úrsula Rebollar, Lena Arsenijevic
Consumer: Matthew Rode, Kithara Basis
Structural: Armando Pelcastre
Building: TO, maestro Pablo Escobar
Panorama: Entorno, Tonatiuh Martínez
