Chapultepec Environmental Tradition Heart / ERREqERRE Arquitectura y Urbanismo

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Normal Flooring Plan

Textual content description offered by the architects. The Environmental Tradition Heart contemplates a Pavilion surrounded by a set of Gardens with a naturalistic design and an ethnobotanical look. These Gardens consult with the various ecosystems and pure landscapes of the Valley of Mexico Basin (Temperate Forests, Grasslands, Wetlands, and Pedregal vegetation) and are fastidiously built-in with the prevailing vegetation, topography, and tools of Chapultepec, thus optimizing and growing its Nice potential as an city forest.

Flooring Plan

For the accessibility and pleasure of those Gardens, a sequence of Biocultural Walks have been included, which considerably enhance pedestrian connectivity on this part of the Forest. The Walks provide an immersion expertise in nature and an academic rediscovery of the significance of pure parts inside an city forest and our relationship with them, thus transcending their merely connective and aesthetic performance.

Normal Part

The Biocultural Walks undertake trajectories within the type of a concentric spiral that provides continuity to the curved traces that outline the define of Menor Lake. Its excursions begin from the prevailing cultural tools at totally different factors across the perimeter of the land and intuitively come collectively within the Heart for Environmental Tradition: a cultural node projected as an open public area that permits one to expertise the shut relationship between nature and the brand new cultural and environmental dynamics. It’s made up of the duality and interplay of an open-air Cultural House with a discussion board or round plaza, and an Environmental Pavilion that homes exhibitions centered on selling environmental tradition.

Exterior Elevation

The spatial configuration of the venture arises from strategically finding the Heart for Environmental Tradition. It’s delicately included into the geometry of the lake and a pure slope with present vegetation, which supplies an optimum area to put a set of volcanic stone steps that function containment, relaxation, and contemplation for the brand new panorama or environmental setting.

Inside Elevation

The Environmental Pavilion is conceived as yet another factor of the panorama. Its semi-conical geometry and its black stone cladding on the two,000 m² roofs consult with the volcanic landscapes of Pedregal and are subtly built-in into its pure and cultural setting. The result’s a lightweight, versatile, versatile, and really low-maintenance pavilion. Its formal simplicity is accompanied by the aware selection of optimum development methods and new applied sciences that decrease its carbon footprint and its influence on the setting.

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Element

The inside of the Pavilion presents full continuity and spatial flexibility that may accommodate and discover totally different museography proposals, all the time permitting visible transparency in direction of its two exterior fronts: the Gardens and the Cultural House.

These traits spotlight its versatility and spatial dynamism to accommodate these actions and exhibition applications that want some shelter and shade. The expertise of feeling direct contact with the Gardens/Walks can be favored, which supplies the customer with a singular panorama from contained in the Pavilion, enhancing the significance of pure parts and the panorama in an academic and cultural setting.

This strategy of the Pavilion permits visualizing the concord, direct interrelation, and fusion of the pure and the human, the prevailing and the venture, and the panorama and the structure. The place beforehand there was a vehicular car parking zone, there may be now the Agroecological Zone with varied plots of rotating crops, contained by stone partitions as “tecorrals”. These provide a brand new panorama in concord with the roof of the Pavilion whereas enhancing the environmental circumstances of the area and selling biodiversity. This space additionally seeks citizen participation by means of varied academic, demonstration, and agricultural manufacturing applications.

The venture prioritizes the design rules of permaculture, which zones the area and regulates its stage of upkeep in accordance with proximity standards, on this case to the Heart for Environmental Tradition. The irrigation system for the agroecological zone works by gravity. It begins its journey in Lago Menor and is distributed because of a visual grasp channel and several other secondary channels with handbook gates that optimize the use and administration of water. The venture supplies a singular set of landscapes, feelings, encounters, actions, and studying within the context of an city forest, making certain compliance with its ecosystem capabilities and changing into an lively promoter of environmental tradition.