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Cover Colored Projects Inception by Alejandro Guadarrama. Graphic Design Alejandro Guadarrama
An special selection of the best architectural projects done between 2016 and 2020. Including works from Interior Architecture to Landscape Architecture.
ďƒŁ 2020 Alejandro Guadarrama
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architect is a great poet. He must be a great “ Everyoriginal interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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NEUCHATEL TOWER
C.C. SAN ÁNGEL
PACÍFICO 455
ACADEMIC WORK
ACADEMIC WORK
ACADEMIC SOCIAL WORK
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PARALLEL PAVILION
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VIRTUAL TOUR MPBA
ACADEMIC WORK
ACADEMIC SOCIAL WORK
PROFESSIONAL
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NEUCHATEL TOWER T O R R E
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Architetural Project: Alejandro Guadarrama Institution: Universidad Autรณnoma Metropolitana Location: Mexico City Year: 2016
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NEUCHATEL TOWER Lago Neuchatel, Col. Granada, Mexico City 2016
The Neuchatel Tower, located in a dense urban area at one of the most important financial and housing zones of Mexico City, responds several needs of the area and the city itself, the huge demand of office areas in addition to the need for new housing spaces. Neuchatel Tower, brings to the habitants and users a new modern way to live, mixing office areas and flats in just one single complex. On its more than Two Hundred meters high distributed along Thirty floors, the building provides a high level of habitability, comfort and luxury.
Site Analysis l Located in Polanco, one of the most dense urban areas of Mexico City, known as a luxurious, shopping and touristic area. Located at the northwest of the city, the site of Neuchatel Tower fills out many of the need that habitants of this part of the city responds, with 3 shopping malls, 2 museums, cinemas, supermarkets in no more than 500 meters around it.
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located on the grounds of the Hacienda de San Juan de los Morales. At the beginning of the colonial times, parts of this land (near the current center of the Hacienda) were occupied for planting mulberry trees for breeding silkworms and this is were the concept takes form. Neuchatel Tower shape and design are inspirated on the Mulberry Trees in order to show the historical past of Polanco.
Design l Neuchatel Tower, a project who involves two diferrent uses, residential and bussiness. On its 28 floors, 22 are designated only for residential use, 5 floors for offices and business uses and the 28th floor is designted for an events hall and on the rooftop, an heliport for diverse uses.
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Neuchatel Tower, responding to the needs of the zone, is the maximum expression of luxury and exclusivity but also provides comfort and a huge level of habitability.
Skyline View l Neuchatel Tower
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The architectural program demanded a 30th floored tower. So at first we extrude the site which is an irregular rectangle shape, thirty floors up (providing 5m each floor).
To ensure confort and sun-light ilumination for all the spaces, we substract the original object to form an Oshape which gives the opportunity to create public spaces for the project.
EXPANDED AREA
MIXED USE
In order to gain usable area but also in order to justify the concept, we expand the center quore of the shape, to create a unique shape tower.
The program demanded to have a tower with mixed use, in this case, 10 floors are destinated for offices, 17 for living and the last floor destinated for an events hall.
FACADE
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In order to create shading effects on the inside of the tower, we created a facade which gives the tower an identity and uniqueness in comparison of the surrounding buildings.
As a result, we have a unique Mixed Use Thirty-floored tower which provides a new identity to the neighborhood Polanco but also creates new convivential areas to it, with the addition of public green areas on the remains of the site.
HELIPORT & ROOFTOP FLOOR
EVENTS HALL FLOOR
APARTMENTS FLOOR
OFFICES FLOOR
EMERGENCY STAIRS
SERVICE ELEVATOR
PIPELINES DUCTS
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Site Plan Isometric l Neuchatel Tower
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29TH FLOOR
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Mexico City, a high sysmic area, is on of the most difficult cities to build,in order that as an architect you always need to have on mind how to avoid the Earthquake and solve this problem with the best
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In Neuchatel Tower, for the foundation we choose a
piling system and a concrete slab. For the Builiing Structure, a Diagrid system with a Concrete Core will be implemented in order to resist earthquake movements. For the building floors, a system of steel deck with steel beams will be used in order to bring stability and lightness to the structure but also and not less important, to reduce costs of the project.
West Facade l Neuchatel Tower
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UNION
STRUCTURAL FLOOR PLAN
DIAGRID - COLUMN
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DIAGRID SPECIFICATIONS
STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
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CULTURAL CORRIDOR
SAN ÁNGEL CORREDOR CULTURAL SAN ÁNGEL Architetural Project: Alejandro Guadarrama Institution: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Location: Mexico City Year: 2017
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Av. Revolución, Col. Sán Ángel, Mexico City 2017
Cultural Corridor San Ángel arises from the need to generate public and recreational spaces, but above all from the need for green areas in Mexico City, specifically, in the Col. San Ángel of the Álvaro Obregón delegation. As the main idea and approach, we took as center of the project, the road return of Av. De los Insurgentes and Av. Revolución. The creation of a cultural space with diverse activities related to the arts, thus achieving greater social coexistence in the area. In addition, a Linear Park will be developed along Av. Revolución that will connect directly with the cultural space.
Site Analysis l San Ángel, a semi-dense area located on the South-West on Mexico City, the area is well known as one of the most cultural and artistic zones in the City. Surrounded by Teathers, Museums, Restaurants and Office areas, at some point of the day, Av. Revolución the automotive and pedestrian influx turns into a total chaos. There's where Cultural Corridor takes place, in order to solve the inminent caos, the proposal involves the creation of a Vehicule Tunnel to reduce the time in traffic and also to generate a new pedestrian area in order to complement the urban environment.
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Design l As a final idea, for the San Ă ngel Cultural Corridor, the design of an interactive museum and the arts was proposed, a museum whose main characteristic is that it is developed underground, thus allowing the development of green areas at the top, but above all reducing the environmental impact that would result to build a building in height.
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Corridor Tunnel l On Av. Revolution we reduced the road lanes by 2 on each side sending the traffic to an underground vehicular tunnel.
Art Galleries (Cultural Centre) l Cultural Corridor San Angel
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Cultural Corridor Mastel Plan l Cultural Corridor San Angel
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The Cascade Entrance l For the Cultural Centre San Angel a staircascade remarks the main entrance to it. Which changes the idea of just a simple stair, providing new experiences to the project.
Structure l The structure chosen for the Cultural Center is based on a framework of retaining walls made of concrete to ensure the stability of the enclosure, which is at least three meters high in correspondence with the level +/- 0.00 as shown in the previous image. For the foundation, after a previous analysis of the land, it was decided to implement concrete slab because the site is in a rocky terrain and does not require a deep foundation to generate the required stability, besides the use of reinforced concrete columas was implemented.
Lobby (Cultural Centre) l Cultural Corridor San Angel
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CULTURAL CORRIDOR (GROUND LEVEL)
CULTURAL CENTRE (LEVEL -3.00 MTS)
USABLE AREA (CULTURAL CENTRE)
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Architetural Project: Alejandro Guadarrama Institution: Universidad Autรณnoma Metropolitana Location: Mexico City Year: 2017
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PACĂ?FICO 4 5 5 Av. PacĂfico 455, Col. La Candelaria, Mexico City 2017
Pacifico 455, a project that merges after the destructive Eartquake that hit Mexico City on September 19th of 2017 who left several damages on many buidlngs around the city. Some of them fall down and some remaind stand, like Pacifico 455, but with fatal damages who left the buildings unhabitable. As a social work, the design project of the trimester was to develop an executive project in order to give to the owners and habitants of the damaged building.
Site Analysis l Barrio de la Canderlaria, located on CoyoacĂĄn, Mexico City, its a high dense population area, characterized for being a place where religious traditions are preserved, which for the inhabitants of the project presents an inconvenience due to the little tolerance of the neighbors towards the big constructions. About Terrain stability, the terrain lies in a type 1 terrain, where the terrain conditions are rocky due to the composition of volcanic stone that makes up the area, thanks to this, a deep foundation is not necessary as well as being a land with little telluric mobility.
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Earthquake hit the centre of Mexico, creating huge damages specially on Mexico City, in which the Flat Building of Pacifico 455 suffered critical damages on the structure. Diario La Jornada
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The building did not colapsed during the Earthquake, but the structure suffered critical damages, Specially on the Structural Colums, which left the building unhabitable. Cultura Colectiva.com
The Proposal l Bein part of the Universidad AutĂłnoma Metropolitana Re-Design Brigade for the Earthquake Damnified, I recieved Pacifico 455, a 26 family-flat building with one Parking Lot for each one. So, on the proposal, I designed a sixfloored Steel Structure building with Concrete Core to ensure safe movement between them for future Earthquakes. Resolving it with four flats per floor and two more on the ground floor, giving me the total amount of flats needed.
Main Facade l PacĂfico 455
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To start, we elevate a rectangular shape six floors, 3mts each one because of comfort and structural purposes, and elevate the ground floor 4.5mts, for the parking lot which is -1.5mts. bellow ground.
To ensure confort and sun-light ilumination for all the spaces, we substract the original object to form an Hshape with 2 flats each side-floor and one distribution central core for the lifts and the stairs.
SUN + BALCONIES
NEW SPACES
In order to harness the use of sunlight, we substract the corners from the shape but also, to improve the space, we create balconies to ensure a high level of habitability.
To create new experiences and confort inside the building, we extrude de Central Core to create a Rooftop garden and substract the flats 1m in order to create balconies and gardens.
FACADE
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To avoid the excess of sunlight on the main spaces but also to ensure a high-quality habitabily, we designed a triangular shape facade, who also gives the building a unique but functional look.
As a result, we have a unique Six-floored H-shape flat building which responds not also to the needs of the Damnified, it also gives a new way of life for them by creating new coexistance areas to ensure a safe-healthy relationship between the neighbors.
ROOFGARDEN
BALCONIES
LIVING ROOM
KITCHEN
EMERGENCY STAIRS
SERVICES ROOM
ELEVATOR
PARKING LOT
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The Facade l The main Facade of Pacifico 455 was conceived starting with a Golden Section Triangle Pattern repeated Three times vertical / Four times horizontal, completing the entire area. The Pattern, made of steel, instead of providing Structural strenght to the building, it also provides Interior Shade to the flats, creating less warm rooms in order to create a confortable space but also and not less important, provides uniqueness to the building.
Facade Details (Lighting Map) l PacĂfico 455
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As a result after the reunions with the inhabitants, and
interviewing each one of the families we came with a type plan for the Thirty Six apartments, which includes 3 bedrooms, one with the addition of Dressing room (Master Bedroom), One and a half Bathrooms, Living and Dining Room, Kitchen and a Storage/Laundry room next to the apartment and a Terrace for each apartment. The final design results on a 120 m2 apartment, 50% bigger than the original design, by adding new spaces, like a third room or a terrace which not only makes the flat bigger, it provides a new type of environment inside the house but in addition it also improves the life-quality of the inhabitants. Which as a conclusion, leads us to a result that us as architects we have to always search the best option for the client and how we can improve their way of life.
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Main Facade l PacĂfico 455
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parallel PAVILION PARALLELER PAVILLON Architetural Project: Alejandro Guadarrama Institution: Technische Universität Berlin Location: Berlín Year: 2018
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PArallel PAVILION East Side Gallery, MĂźhlenstraĂ&#x;e 60, Berlin 2018
The Parallel Pavilion, a work of ephemeral architecture, a space whose meaning goes beyond the form, a space where situations of the past are recreated in a conceptual way but above all, a space where the user can capture their ideas, this taking up, and as the main concept, the Berlin Wall, a place that today, the remnants of this located in Muhlenstrasse (East Side Gallery) works as a space for artistic expression where anyone can express their thoughts through the graphic.
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The Main concept of the project, the Berlin Wall, a place that today, the remnants of this located in Muhlenstrasse (East Side Gallery) works as a space for artistic expression where anyone can express their thoughts through the graphics.
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Design Process l The Parallel Pavilion design is based on the history of the Berlin Mauer, conceptualizing it with two 6-meter high partition walls, which symbolize the two dividing walls of Federal and Communist Germany. A wooden structure, functions as a roof, that symbolize a staircase on the wall, which allows visibility to the other side, finally Two hanging bridges symbolize the complicated passage between the two sides and finally, a dark central space, difficult to travel by the amount of structures and reduced space, which symbolizes the dangers that people had when crossing the Berlin wall.
Main Facade l Parallel Pavilion
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
To start, the purpose of the project was only to use two materials, in our case, Wood and Bricks. In order to solve the task we designed nail-less unions (Traditional Japanese joints) for the wood.
At first we use triangular wood structure to ensure strenght, also we added a central Brick wall in order to create an even more strong structure without losing lightness.
REPETITION
MIRRORING + SPACES
With an Structural System perfectly defined, we start copying creating a building from a Pattern it in order to create Space, usable areas for the Pavillion.
Following the concept we mirror and offset the Pattern Building, creating the final shape of the Pavilion. In addition, we add a second floor, create openings between Buildings in order to connect them with light wood bridges.
STAIRS
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To ensure an access to the second floor, which works as an Exhibition Room and provides circulation around the Pavilion, we add wood stairs on each side of it.
As final we complete the Pavilion adding a wood facade in order provide shade inside of the building and enclosing it. As a result we have a Wood-Brick light structured Pavilion with a simple but revolutionary design which responds to the task but also the concept.
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Structure l The structure of the pavilion basically consists of the use of only two materials, brick and wood. The way to solve this was to create the partition walls and a wooden roof, the latter solved based on Japanese type joints which are exemplified above.
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lINear PARK SAN GREGORIO ATLAPULCO PARQUE LINEAL SAN GREGORIO ATLAPULCO Architetural Project: Alejandro Guadarrama Institution: Universidad Autรณnoma Metropolitana Location: Mexico City Year: 2019
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L I N E A R P A R K SAN GREGORIO ATLAPULCO San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, Mexico City 2019
Situation l San Gregorio Atlapulco, following the earthquake of September 19, 2017, was severely damaged, leading to the reconstruction of the site.
Proposal l As a general proposal, the generation of a new public and recreational space is proposed where different types of activities can be carried out and, above all, generate the connection of the other rescue projects arq.
Concept l The Linear Park of San Gregorio Atlapulco, a project whose main design base is the Chinampa-City relationship, achieving it by means of the intersecting diagonal axes trace, which are related by means of the urban trace and the channels that at specific points, the intersections lead to the formation of viewpoints, docks and bridges that allow an approach to the chinampa
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Section 1 of the San Gregorio Atlapulco linear park is the beginning of the project, receiving users with a water mirror with bronzing fountains which users can use to generate public space. The route, multicolored, fulfills the function of identifying the sections of the linear park and which is also an area allowed for the transit of bicycles and corridors (bike path) in addition to the exit of bridges and viewpoints / docks which allow a more direct relationship with the chinampa.
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San Gregorio Atlapulco, following the earthquake of September 19, 2017, was severely damaged, leading to the reconstruction of the site.
Section 1 l Lineal Park San Gregorio Linear Park
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Sections and Master Plan l Lineal Park San Gregorio Linear Park
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Section 3 of the San Gregorio Atlapulco Linear Park, which is also generating the chinampa-city interconnection, section 3 articulates 2 of the 8 projects of the architectural rescue of the waterfront (services, market and the interpretation center). Section 3, like the first one, has a multicolored bike path, viewpoints and bridges. But it is worth emphasizing the existence of sprouting sources in the middle of the project (lobbying one of the main axes of the services), but also, because of its considerable lenght in comparison with the other sections, this needed to have Service Areas (Restrooms and a Cafeteria) in order of the other projects and the Air-Theatre.
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Concept l The curved space is based on the orography of the place, taking into account the contour lines and the geological faults that surpass San Gregorio atlapulco.
Section 3 l Lineal Park San Gregorio Atlapulco
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Cafeteria l Lineal Park San Gregorio Atlapulco
Description l The public restrooms project is divided into two constructions, separate toilets and sinks, providing greater accessibility and greater hygiene for users. the location of the restrooms corresponds to the fact that it is within the longest section of the linear park as well as corresponding to the need for the adjacent amphitheater. The public restrooms are defined as an enclosed/private space but allowing Natural Light in through the opening in the ceiling. On the other hand, the public sinks are defined as an open space, also including the opening in the ceiling, which following the concept of enclosing private areas and opening free areas.
Public Sinks l Lineal Park San Gregorio Atlapulco
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virtual TOUR
EL PARIS DE MODIGLIANI Y SUS CONTEMPORÁNEOS Official Renderings and Virtual Tour: Alejandro Guadarrama Exhibition: El París de Modigliani y sus Contemporáneos Client: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes Year: 2020
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virtual TOUR EL PARÍS DE MODIGLIANI Y SUS CONTEMPORÁNEOS Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City 2020
On the centenary of the death of the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani (Livorno 1884-Paris 1920), the Secretaria de Cultura and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, through the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, presents for the first time in Mexico an extensive selection of his pictorial work, in the company of prominent members of the School of Paris –such as Chaim Soutine, Moise Kisling and Suzanne Valadon-, with works from the prestigious Jonas Netter Collection, curated by Marc Restellini, one of the most prominent specialists in the work of Amedeo Modigliani.
Virtual Tour l On late March of 2020, Arch. Imanol Coriche, head-designer of the exhibition and part of the team of Museography of the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes approached Alejandro Guadarrama Architects in order to create the Virtual Tour of the Exhibition, which included the 3D Modeling of each exhibition room (Five in total), the modeling of every pieace of Art and the Museography of the exhibition.
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Sala Diego Rivera l El ParĂs de Modigliani y sus ContemporĂĄneos
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Exhibition Start (Sala Diego Rivera) l El ParĂs de Modigliani y sus ContemporĂĄneos
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Concept l The concept of the exhibition was in order to recreate the Art Galeries but also the famous Cafe's in Paris, where the artists in question, were they gathered together and sold their art.
Exhibition Start (Sala Diego Rivera) l El ParĂs de Modigliani y sus ContemporĂĄneos
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Sala Nacional l The National Room (Sala Nacional) is the most important of the entire exhibition. This is because all of the Modiglianis are inside it. Also because this room is the most important of the entire museum, so with it remarks the importance of Modigiliani for the exhibition.
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Exhibition (Sala Nacional) l El ParĂs de Modigliani y sus ContemporĂĄneos
Exhibition Centre (Sala Nacional) l El París de Modigliani y sus Contemporáneos
Modigliani (Sala Nacional) l El París de Modigliani y sus Contemporáneos
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Exhibition (Sala Siqueiros) l El París de Modigliani y sus Contemporáneos
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Exhibition (Sala Orozco) l El París de Modigliani y sus Contemporáneos
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