Architecture of Building Mount Elbrus by Garduño arquitectos in Mexico City
September 18th, 2009 - Posted in Architecture Design
Building Mount Elbrus was designed by Garduño arquitectos, located in Mexico City, a difficult position, since the area was originally high density and was fully developed. In fact, today adjoins buildings between 14 and 30 levels. In the design development process, the rules changed, so that the height restriction limited the program to 6 levels plus a roof garden. This generated a central courtyard area functioning as green, access, lighting center.
With the density of 24 units of 164 m2 was required, an area of 1300 m2 and a head of 30 feet, creating a linear facade to the street leading to that 60 percent of departments had only interior view. For this reason, once assuming the variables, we chose to build two side blocks of apartments to 60 cm. of each adjacency.
In addition to using 90 percent of the previous area as green area, the project has a system for reusing rainwater for irrigation and car washing. These ramps, which appear to float on the facade, become parapet and walk the perimeter of the building back to the front as slab. One of the main intentions of this proposal was to create the illusion of slim volumes, to avoid the noise and give the project to integrate and share about their environment in a positive way.
