MALO: Manifestaciones Locales

MALO: Manifestaciones Locales A Pavilion To Meet, Think, Discuss And Deliver

Year:2012 Location: Mexico City Site: Garden at the Archivo DiseĂąo y Arquitectura Program: Pavilion for exhibitions, presentations and community meetings Project Type: Architecture Status: Open Competition

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INTENTIONS The MALO Pavilion takes a participatory urbanism approach to rethink the use of the Archivo de DiseĂąo y Arquitectura garden towards a new open platform for local manifestations and expressions. The project is founded on the idea of creating a common ground for residents, business owners, governmental entities and local community organizations for a more plural discussion space in the context of an emergent cultural corridor in the San Miguel Chapultepec-Tacubaya neighborhood in Mexico City.

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INCUBATING PARTICIPATION: MEET-THINK-RE PURPOSE The objectives of this proposal are: (1) Create awareness in the neighborhood of the existence of the garden and its potential to become a knowledge sharing space between neighbors and the Mexican and international design community.(2) Generate a dialogue about public space by re purposing some of the pavilion’s components in way in which residents and outsiders explore possibilities to improve existing public spaces in the San Miguel Chapultepec-Tacubaya neighborhood.

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DESIGN APPROACH The design of the pavilion itself begins with the re utilization of the existing concrete slab (A) and projecting four (B) lines (parallel and perpendicular to the north wall) to increase the flooring area.

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The added corners become filled with loose gravel which allows to create a reversible flooring addition (C). The projected lines of this operation then becomes a light steel structure in which the roof is constructed with one of the sponsors donated materials.

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