017 Revolución 1107
Revolución 1107 is a commercial building in the city of Pachuca, Mexico.
A regular structural steel grid, two concrete slabs and a concrete tower of services, configure a building which spatial relations are defined by sliding glass walls, and non-structural steel panels. This simple strategy for a building refutes the ambiguity and vagueness of the commission: a commercial building with a total floor area of 450 square meters.
While this strategy results in the constructive and structural efficiency of the design, the nine-square grid also emphasizes the inherent validity of the plan as a tool to make subsequent design decisions. The simple subdivision of this grid allowed us to discover the design instead of creating it from scratch. In this project, the scheme served as the rule.
The privileged urban situation of the plot is exploited through a terraced facade towards the street and complemented by a hovering translucent roof that will give shelter to a solarium on the third floor.
The resulting building has the intention to dissappear when its being used. It will only serve as a framework where, chairs, tables, benches, plants, signs, lights and people, are the protagonists of space.
