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Building in the Metropolis MX
Gaeta Springall Architects First Edition 2014 ISBN: 978 - 3 - 943615 - 21 - 0 Editing and Design Marina Ruiz Daniela DĂĄvila Texts Kristin Feireiss Hans-JĂźrgen Commerell Luby Springall Julio Gaeta Cover Photographs Sandra Pereznieto Daniel Mastretta Editorial Coordination Jesica Amescua
Building in the Metropolis MX was printed in July 2014 in Litoprocess Impresos Company, Mexico City. The text were set in typefaces of the Helvetica family. The print run was 1,000 volumes.
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BUILDING IN THE METROPOLIS MX Gaeta Springall Architects
12. July - 21. August 2014 Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION 09
KRISTIN FEIREISS / HANS-JÜRGEN COMMERELL
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JULIO GAETA / LUBY SPRINGALL
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MEXICAN PAVILION IN VENICE
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4 HOUSES LCC GS STUDIO-HOUSE
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SIROCO & MISTRAL TOWERS
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FF PANTHEON
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NUEVO SUR FRONTGATE
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MEXICAN PAVILION IN MILAN LA MERCED
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MEMORIAL TO VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
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B HOUSE MAGNA SUR HS HOUSE CURE AMATEPEC HOUSE WB HOUSE
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ANTEL ARENA INDEPENDENCE SQUARE BROU
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The True Stage of Life Kristin Feireiss / Hans-Jürgen Commerell
When we first met Julio Gaeta and Luby Spingall in February 2013 in Mexico City, it started as an unexpected adventure. We had to climb over a wall guarded by police officers, which was over a kilometer long and separated the public from the newly finished Memorial to the Victims of Violence located in a central park of Mexico City, before the government decided to open the politically delicate installation. Our spontaneous reaction to the steel panels––some of them as tall as the eucalyptus trees surrounding them––embedded in the landscape, interrupted only by stone paths and small artificial waterways, was overwhelming. What makes this memorial designed by Gaeta-Springall Architects unique is the dialectic approach: it is simultaneously strong and sensitive, reflective and emotional, contemplative and lively. The slabs on corrugated iron are, to quote the New York Times, “blank pages that begin to speak as soon visitors approach.” One and a half years later, hundreds of notes and messages have been written or engraved by visitors on the rusty surface alongside quotations from Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes and other writers chosen by the architects. When designing the Memorial to the Victims of Violence in Mexico City, Gaeta-Springall Architects followed their general conceptual and design approach: “We design for the city, creating forms and spaces that fit and interact with the urban landscape. Building in the metropolis means connecting with the collective dimension.” Gaeta-Springall recently won a national competition aimed at selecting the curators of the Mexican pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014. They designed and curated a remarkable pavilion titled “Condemned to be modern” which is a refreshing and, at the same time, conceptual retrospective of modern Mexican architecture.
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Now, for the first time in Europe, they are present at Aedes, showing their own oeuvre. Gaeta-Springall’s exhibition and catalogue, titled “Building in the Metropolis MX,” showcase selected works of these Mexican architects, which they call “architectural-urban pieces” designed for the community: housing, office buildings, cultural and social buildings as well as public spaces, several of them won through competition. In the architects’ work process, from their first sketch to the finished building, architectural elements such as form, material and function serve not only the building, but also a larger and more complex system: the city. Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall and their team took great care when designing the envelop in order to generate possible interactions through the porosity of the exterior skin. Here they set particular store by intelligent systems and technologies to archive maximum efficiency and sustainability. The clear tendency towards modernity is found not only in the forms and materials of their buildings, such as the 4 Houses LCC for four families or the Siroco and Mistral Towers in Mexico City, which house hundreds of families, but also in their fundamental approach of integrating architecture into the urban landscape through transparency, thereby building “in the city, for the city”. Both the exhibition and the catalogue reflect in various ways the gradual confrontation with “their” metropolis, Mexico City, the basis of each of their projects. Alongside extensive research (on the urban surroundings, the boundaries between public and private domains, as well as function, design and construction), participation is a crucial component of every project. In particular, the importance of community and its interaction at every planning stage truly distinguishes all their projects. Julio Gaeta and Luby Springall have dedicated themselves to space as an entirety, which they see as the “true stage of life”.
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THINKING - BUILDING
THINKING - CREATING It is from architecture and territory that we create, taking into account form, culture, building method, cost and environmental conditions in the contemporary world.
with precision and ambition based on research, mapping, concept, design and follow up.
paying attention to the process as much as the result, always with the client and the end user in mind.
in creative and innovative projects that are able to become real and adapted to their context.
following a workflow based on research-thinking-designinbuilding-follow up and finally reflecting upon the design concept.
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BUILDING PROJECTS WE BUILD PROJECTS from a theoretical-practical point of view, reflecting on our work to improve our processes and results.
WE BUILD
under the premise of thinking-making-thinking-making.
to connect to the city as a whole.
to connect to the social as much as the physical context.
to innovate without sacrificing building precision.
to promote social, cultural and environmental responsibility.
“With our designs, we intend to contribute to the production of the city; creating backdrops for life to occur, suitable for globalized social and economical activities to take place, but at the same time aware of local conditions and the relationship between city, landscape, architecture, society and individual. We design architecture from theory and practice, from the office as well as the academy; we understand that both platforms complement each other, they strengthen and reciprocate each other, making us better academics and architects�.
Julio Gaeta / Luby Springall
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“…separately, tradition stagnates and modernity vaporizes. When they come together, modernity breathes life into tradition, and tradition responds by giving modernity depth and gravity”. Octavio Paz
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curatorial proposal of the Mexican Pavilion “Condemned to be Modern” intends to deploy two types of discourses. One traditional and the other contemporary; the first one determined by eight themed panels, eight doors that recover topics central to the deployment of the process of modernity in Mexico. The other, a luminous ellipse in which more than one hundred works, interviews and historical events related to architecture, are presented through high impact audiovisuals. It suggests a criticism, but also poses an open question about the possible continuity or potential break between the heroic modernity of the 1950s and 60s, and the practice of architecture today, in contemporaneousness. Modernity is not a condition/goal that is reached at the end of a journey. On the contrary, modernity is, above all, an attitude. It is an avant-garde position, an insatiable appetite and search that contends against a possible state of stillness and self-satisfaction. In view of that attitude, “Condemned to be Modern” suggests that the desire for modernity is forever; this implies not resignation, but rather a commitment and an attitude of self-criticism and continuous re-invention, a permanent transformation of actors, processes and results.
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“...modernity, for the last one hundred years has been our style. It is the universal style. Waiting to be modern seems like madness, we are condemned to be modern [...]� Octavio Paz
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4 HOUSES LCC YEAR
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an exceptional topography with a pronounced cliff, a group of four houses is designed; formed by two towers that contain two houses each. From ground level the four houses either go up or down the cliff, as you enter the landscape becomes integrated into the architecture and the houses appear to float. The project pretends the houses to merely rest on the ground. With four metallic columns on each tower the illusion of “floating houses” is achieved. An open floor plan at ground level successfully integrates the landscape and creates a memorable access. The use of simple shapes and a reduced material palette define the volumes. The main facades open completely to the best views, while being more restricted to secondary ones.
HONORABLE MENTION in the X Mexican Architecture Biennial
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Designed by Francisco Artigas about sixty years ago, the house was divided in five parts of which the studio sits atop of one. The new project superimposes a box to the original building, which allows the new composition to fully assume the modern aspect that was originally intended. The box (its height is one and a half times that of Artigas’s house) not only rests on top, but rather assimilates, integrates and virtually envelops the preexisting, perhaps due to the effect of the façade that extends itself past the existing architecture by means of pillars. The result is therefore, not the sum of its parts, but something entirely different in which the original house remains true to itself, and at the same time is redefined. In this new composition the materials contrast: over the concrete and the glass appear the polycarbonate and the metal structure. There are some contemporary signs inscribed in a controlled framework: abstraction, neutrality and transparency, with strong historic connotations.
HONORABLE MENTION in the VI Mexican Architecture Biennial
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Mistral and Siroco Towers are located in the highest part of Santa Fe with great views to Mexico City, in the west side of the city. It’s about 30 years old and it´s turning to be the new financial district of the city. Hundreds of thousands of square meters are being built: commercial, residential and offices. Both towers are meant to be the tallest buildings in the area with 43 stories each; the height average in the area is 30 floors. The main feature to consider in this project is that it is a re-design of two towers (Siroco and Mistral) over a partially existing construction; all the structural piles (from 30 to 70 meters deep) and the first three basements were built by the first developer who sold the project and property to Nemesis Capital. The client´s requirements were to create an iconic building in Santa Fe, with the largest rentable area offering the most attractive facilities and comfort to the residents.
MISTRAL BEST HIGH-RISE ARCHITECURE, Mexico / International Property Awards. 2013 BEST HIGH-RISE ARCHITECURE, Central South America / International Property Awards. 2013
SIROCO AMERICAS PROPERTY AWARDS. BEST ARCHITECTURE MULTIPLE RESIDENCE, Mexico. 2011
Siroco´s concept was that of five stacked boxes slightly rotated between them, Mistral´s concept is the horizontal displacement of each floor, conformed by 34 piled boxes moving in horizontal a way. Mistral was the result of different ideas merging during the design process, it´s clarity, simplicity, strength, and rationality make an innovative building with a unique image, an icon.
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unusual commission of a family mausoleum allowed us to reflect upon the concept of life and death. One shape: an ellipse, a single stroke that connects the entrance and the underground. Only one building material: concrete. The project is placed in a small cemetery lot and fundamentally explores an elliptical volume; the metaphor of the path between life and death, heaven and earth, light and darkness.
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A small yet great commission: the entryway to a part of
the city with more than 10,000 residents. Essentially the point where the transition from private to public starts. The form is composed by two steel arcs, the first one extending from a star shaped arch, the second an arc shaped roof suspended over the entryway.
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The design resulted from the idea of a grand nave with a strong section that would evoke a TEMPLE and a MARKET simultaneously, a volume that would resemble the spatial grandiosity of the first, and the informal spontaneity of the second. Crowning the space with a common element, the stained glass window. We consider this duality: informality-formality versus fresh and institutional, an intrinsic concept of the rich Mexican culture. The pavilion exhibits the history of food and its relationship to local populations, through a design that synthesizes two essential archetypes in Mexican culture: the temple and the market. The nave is simple yet decisive, the structure is formed by three attached triangles that resemble a letter M for both Mexico and Market; a symbol. In turn this design is ideal in structural, buildable and ephemeral terms. With the intention of minimizing the impact on the terrain, the structure merely rests atop the ground, generating an open floor plan throughout the exhibition.
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design strategy for this project is thought in different layers: people, mobility, infrastructure, heritage, public space, food distribution network, housing, green city, new architecture programs and gentrification. The layers related to architecture, infrastructure and public space are designed for the people. Contexts that encourage citizens to proactively engage in the permanent transformation of the city. The project is conceived in terms of urban filed (mobility, public space, streetscape redesign, traffic flow, street furniture, etc.), social field (land use changes, social policies, communication, etc.), and new architecture programs (health, education, housing, culture, etc.). We developed three architectural pieces that constitute landmarks to reinforce the local residents identity and contribute to a better life quality; these are La Merced Lighthouse, La Merced Community Center and San Lรกzaro plaza.
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In the particular case of the Memorial to Violence Victims in Mexico, we materialized in architectural terms, one of the most important and current issues in Mexican society: violence. This is a big and open wound; in response to this, we propose an open project on the site, open to the city and open to be appropriated by the citizens. The rehabilitation of public space as well as the remembrance of the victims of violence is the essence of the project. Our project, located in Chapultepec, the most important park of Mexico City, plays the double condition of public space and memorial. The first premise was to recognize the site’s vocation as a forest, with a very strong presence of nature.
FIRST PLACE, National Competition SILVER MEDAL, First Architecture Biennial in Mexico City, 2013 CIDI IBEROAMERICAN AWARD, Emblematic work of the year. 2013 HONORABLE MENTION, Architizer HONORABLE MENTION on the Latin-American Landscape Biennial and the ILD Award of Excellence (Gustavo Avilés)
The violence is suggested in two dimensions: the void and the built. The void proposed in the project is the space created between the steel walls and the trees. This void or empty space reminds us of the absence of the people who have passed away, and the surfaces of the steel walls, rusty or mirroring, show that we can lose, add or multiply ourselves at the same time, roosted walls, built with corten steel are the spaces in which society writes the name of the victims, transforming these walls into the memory of the absences. If we think of violence as destruction, the construction of seventy steel walls, a forest of walls, is the antidote against violence.
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LOCATION M²
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GAETA-SPRINGALL Architects
The principals have more than 25 years of experience on architectural and academic fields. In 2001 they founded GAETA-SPRINGALL arquitectos, established in Mexico City and Montevideo. Gaeta-Springall’s work has been published and displayed at several national and international exhibitions, among them: The 14th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Sao Paulo Biennale, NAU-New Uruguayan Architecture (Sao Paulo and Barcelona), Mexican Architecture Biennale and currently a monographic exhibition at the AEDES, Berlin. In the last 13 years of practice the office has been recognized by its built work and awarded in several national and international competitions, such as: 2nd prize on the National Competition for the Mexican Pavilion at the 2015 Milan International Exhibition (México); 1st prize on the National Competition for the Curatorial Exhibition and Pavilion Design for the Venice Architecture Biennial (México); 2nd prize on the National Competition for the Urban Renewal of the Merced Market Area (México); 1st prize on the National Competition to build the Memorial for the Victims of Violence in México (México); 3rd prize on the National Competition to build the Memorial for the Victims of Violence in México (México); The Memorial for the Victims of Violence in México achieved a Silver Medal at the Mexican Architecture Biennial; Honorable Mention on Architizer; Honorable Mention on the Latin-American Landscape Biennial and the ILD Award of excellence (Gustavo Avilés). “4 Casas LCC” and “Casa-Estudio GS” are recognized with Honorable Mentions on the 8th and 6th Mexican Architecture Biennial, respectively.
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JULIO GAETA 1961, Montevideo, Uruguay
Co-Founder / Principal He is a licensed architect by the Faculty of Architecture of Montevideo (Uruguay) and PhD in Architecture on Theory, History and Critical Thinking, by the Federal University of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Since 1985, he is simultaneously involved in his practice and the academy, as an architect, academic and researcher focusing on architecture and the city, first in Montevideo and later in Mexico City where he lives since 2001. In 1991 he established and directed Dos Puntos-ELARQA (Montevideo) a publication focused on researching and spreading architecture and urbanism themes; publishing more than one hundred issues. On the Mexican National System of Artistic Creators (FONCA-CONACULTA) he is a granted Artistic Creator on the periods of 2007-2011 and 2011-2014 with projects that are focused on architecture and public space. On the joint programs made by the Iberoamerican University and Polytechnic University of Catalu単a he develops the academic program for the Future City Managers and Housing Laboratory of SXXI being the Academic Director in charge. Since 2004 he is the Academic Coordinator of the Vertical Studios of Project Cycles at the Iberoamerican University (Mexico) having his own Studio (Taller GAETA-UIA). As a guest teacher he has been invited to many architecture conferences, lectures and workshops in America and Europe. julio@gaeta-springall.com taller@gaeta-springall.com Twitter: @juliogaeta
His research and projects have been published in several worldwide-specialized magazines and exhibited in Melbourne, Barcelona, Venice, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Berlin.
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LUBY SPRINGALL 1963, Mexico City, Mexico
Co-Founder / Principal Luby Springall is a licensed architect by the Iberoamerican University, Mexico, and after her graduation she moved to London where she studied postgraduate programmes in plastic arts at the Royal College of Art of London. Her educational path mixes two practices and also settles in dedication to art. In architecture, this combination of practices becomes a way of developing her projects where she combines her art knowledge to generate architectural design concepts. This combination made her being recognized and invited several art exhibitions. Her academic career starts very early when, in 1987, she becomes Project Advisor at the Iberoamerican University and from 2007 till 2011 she coordinates the Vertical Studios of the Project Cycles in the same educational institution. In 2003, she develops an artistic residence granted by FONCA-CONACULTA, at the Banff Centre of Arts, Canada. Luby always keeps connected with the academic practice becoming guest teacher and lecturer on architecture schools and institutions in Latin America and Europe.
luby@gaeta-springall.com Twitter: @lubyspringall
She is also founder and partner of ELARQA MX editorial house and publication where she develops her own investigations and research on architectural concepts, having an active input on these themes. In 2010, she is invited to be the Curator of the Mexican Exhibition ACH-MX2010, in Australia. Before joining Julio Gaeta (in 2001) and to becoming founding partner of GAETA-SPRINGALL arquitectos, she was partner of the architecture office Springall-Lira, from 1991 till 2001. In Springall-Lira she was awarded with the Silver Medal for the project of the CIDE Building in Mexico City.
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MEXICAN PAVILION IN VENICE Credits: Curator / Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Advisers to the curator / Catherine R. Ettinger, Jesica Amescua, Gustavo Avilés. Consultants: Carolyn Aguilar, Fernanda Canales, Alberto Kalach, Juan Palomar, Javier Sánchez. Collaborators: Jesica Amescua, Tiago Pinto, Daniela Dávila, Mario Pliego, Jorge Torres, Raúl Soria, Eugenia Díaz, Marina Ruiz, Carlos Verón, Oscar Juárez. Photography: Sandra Perez Nieto, Julio Gaeta, Camila Cosio.
4 HOUSES Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Photography: Daniel Mastretta, Marina Ruiz.
GS STUDIO-HOUSE Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Consultants: Héctor Margain, Gustavo Avilés. Photography: Marco A. Pachecho, Sandra Pereznieto, Marina Ruiz.
CREDITS
MISTRAL AND SIROCO TOWERS Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall Mistral Tower / Collaborators: Liliana Ramirez, Carlos Verón, Christian Ortega, Daniela Dávila, Miguel Márquez, Jorge Torres, Rafael Álvarez, Berenice Solis, Sebastián Ibarra. Consultants: Héctor Margain, Gustavo Avilés. Photography: Christian Ortega, José Castillo, Marina Ruiz. Siroco Tower / Collaborators: Brenda Ceja, Christian Ortega, Viridiana Hernandez, Daniela Dávila, José Luis Martinez, Miguel Marquez, Edgar Ross, Federico González, Jorge Torres, Sebastián Ibarra. Consultants: Héctor Margain, Gustavo Avilés.Photography: Christian Ortega, José Castillo, Marina Ruiz.
FF PANTHEON Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Jorge Torres, Carlos Verón, Christian Ortega.
FRONTGATE NUEVO SUR Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Jorge Torres, Carlos Verón, Aldo Urban.
MEXICAN PAVILION IN MILAN Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Jesica Amescua, Tiago Pinto, Jorge Torres, Daniela Dávila, Mario Pliego, Carlos Verón, Oscar Juárez, Raúl Soria, Eugenia Diaz. Structural Engineer: Ing. Héctor Margain. Consultants: Gustavo Avilés, Alberto García Valladares, Guillermo Springall, Mónica Dione.
LA MERCED Credits Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Jesica Amescua, Jorge Torres, Daniela Dávila, Mario Pliego, Carlos Verón, Oscar Juárez, Raúl Soria, Eugenia Diaz. Consultants: Roberto Remes, Javier Perezcano Díaz, Guillermo Fernández, Luis Enrique López Cardiel.
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MEMORIAL OF VIOLENCE VICTIMS IN MEXICO Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall, Ricardo López. Collaborators: Jesica Amescua, Brenda Ceja, Liliana Ramirez, Guillermo Ramirez, Edgar Martinez, Christian Ortega, Carlos Verón, Aldo Urban, Daniela Dávila, Miguel Marquez, José Luis Martinez, Paulina de Luna, Iohanna Kuppers, Jorge Torres, Paolo Gonzalez, Rogelio Rodriguez, Juan Verón. Consultants: Gustavo Avilés , Hugo Sánchez , Tonatiuh Martinez, Jorge Cadena. Luis Enrique López Cardiel. Photography: Sandra Pereznieto, Christian Ortega, Daniel Jaimes.
B HOUSE Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Consultants: Héctor Margain. Collaborators: Brenda Ceja, Juliana Assali, Andrés Gómez, Carlos Ramírez, Danilo Terra, Josué Lee, Mario Licea. Photography: Sandra Pereznieto.
MAGNA SUR Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Jesica Amescua, Brenda Ceja, Jaime Serra, Guillermo Ramírez, Christian Ortega, Adrián Mociños. Photography: Sandra Perez Nieto.
HS HOUSE Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Liliana Ramírez, Christian Ortega, Carlos Verón, Aldo Urban, Daniela Dávila, Miguel Marquez, José Luis Martinez. Photography: Liliana Ramírez.
AMATEPEC HOUSE Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Liliana Ramírez, Christian Ortega, Carlos Verón, Daniela Dávila, Miguel Marquez, José Luis Martinez, Jorge Torres.
WB HOUSE Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Jesica Amescua, Christian Ortega, Guillermo Ramírez, Daniela Dávila.
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall in collaboration with Juan Ignacio Barrionuevo. Collaborators: Brenda Ceja, Luis Fabiano Pato Somma, Jorge Ambrosi, Christian Ortega, Viridiana Hernandez, Daniela Dávila, José Luis Martinez, Miguel Marquez, Edgar Ross, Federico González. Lighting Advice: Gustavo Avilés.
ANTEL ARENA Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall, Billy Springall, Miguel Ángel Lira. Collaborators: Carlos Verón, Jorge Torres, Christian Ortega, Aldo Urban.
CURE Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Jesica Amescua, Christian Ortega, Daniel Mastretta, Guillermo Ramírez, Ezequiel Murillo, Jose Luis Martínez, Miguel Márquez.
BROU Credits: Julio Gaeta, Luby Springall. Collaborators: Jesica Amescua, Brenda Ceja, Christian Ortega, Daniel Mastretta, Guillermo Ramírez, Ezequiel Murillo, Jose Luis Martínez, Miguel Márquez.
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CONSULTANTS
Julio Gaeta Luby Springall
Alberto García Valladares Catherine R. Ettinger David Medina Francesco Comerci Gabriel Fernández Guillermo Fernández Guillermo Springall Caram Gustavo Avilés Héctor Margain Hugo Sánchez Javier Perezcano Díaz Luis Enrique López Cardiel Luis Fabiano Somma Maurici Gines Roberto Remes Tonatiuh Martínez
ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS Jesica Amescua Liliana Ramírez Tiago Pinto de Carvalho David Daniel
TEAM Berenice Solís Daniela Dávila Daniel Julve Eugenia Diaz Jorge Torres Karina Manríquez Lucio Lozano Marina Ruiz Marlene Lerpscher Miguel Márquez Mario Pliego Oscar Juárez Rafael Álvarez Raúl Soria
EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS Arturo Soto Bruno Gaeta Carlos Verón Christian Ortega Daniel Mastretta Isis Villicaña
Jorge Aguilar Jorge Vélez Roberto Rodríguez Ricardo Rodríguez Elias Sandra Pereznieto Tomás Gaeta
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We cordially thank the Aedes cooperation partners for their support
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