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Content Vega House Asuan Plaza AQ2 Metropolitan Theater 151 SA JFK Middle School Beloft Up to 35 Architecture Biennale Rotterdam Punta Pรกjaros Hotel Boutique Ocampo 17 Medical Center Tec 100 Cluster Austin

VEGA HOUSE

he project is developed within a main block that handles different textures and projections that play with

its own geometrical shape. Within this block we contain family activities defined in each level, but clearly differentiated in public, private, and service area.

Taking advatange of the spectacular view that the property has, the scheme opens views towards a natural reservoir and the surrounding patios, the main garden along the east facade, the deck facing the open view and the private patio, that encloses a tree in an almost japanese scenario. Outdoors embracing the house in every direction.

Inner space was important as well as the outerspace, therefore we managed to design a double heighted room in the lowerfloor to conect with the upperfloor having the perception of a more open space within the house and with a window that slices the ceiling opening views to the sky.

With a very clear zoning of the different levels and activities,

Vega House

we were able to take maximum advantage of space, having the less square meters to build and finding the best and optimal use of them according to the family needs.

Vega House | Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández V. Lot surface: 357 m2 Total construction: 185 m2 Location: Querétaro, México. Year: 2004 Contractor: Plataforma de Arquitectura Photography: MRH Fotografía / Cesar Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández

Vega House | Plataforma de Arquitectura

ASUAN PLAZA The concept for this project was to design a commercial node that could be able to have a functional logic and a clear aesthetic and at the same time to be a building of easy lecture of its components.

The complex stands out clearly open to the adjacent street, promoting pedestrian accesibility to the complex. The L configuration accentuates the views towards the city while a central pivot of vertical circulation is able to attend 30 commercial spots in two stories.

Structure is exposed, painted in dark brown and covered with glass and travertine marble extruded cubes to give some volume to the facades. With this contrast of color and material the project offers a clear statement in this kind of buildings in the city.

Asuan Plaza

PROGRAM 2755 sqm

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Asuan Plaza | Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández V. Lot surface: 1520 m2 Total construction: 2755 m2 Location: Querétaro, México. Year: 2008 Project manager: Plataforma de Arquitectura Photography: MRH Fotografía, César Rodríguez

Asuan Plaza | Plataforma de Arquitectura

AQ2

he proposal for this project takes place into a very sloped site with very difficult and tricky conditions for

the construction process in the one hand but great views on the other hand.

We decided to design a structural system that could be able to hold the entire object and to rise from the bottom of the site from only one structural point.

The result of this analysis led us to manage a continuous folded slab that rises unfolding itself upon the site. The system will open views to the magnificent natural scenario on the south and will protect the house on its west facade, having a terrace on the roof, a space for the cars at the entrance and interesting spaces between the site and the almost floating spaces as a result of the unfolding and folding element.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fold is a generative process of form. Forms unfold its possibilities being part of the program, in situ, according to natural conditions, budget, etc. Spaces appeared upon the volume. Composition is substituted. The composition is replaced with a back a forth process between the un-folding and folding.â&#x20AC;? FEDERICO SORIANO

AQ2 / Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández V. Lot surface: 360 m2 Total construction: 215 m2 Location: Querétaro, México. Year: 2008 Developer: Argumosa group

AQ2 | Plataforma de Arquitectura

METROPOLITAN THEATER

n 2006 the Government of the City of Queretaro open a competition for a new project, the City of the Arts. We

entered this competition with a proposal for the New Metropolitan Theater competing with the most prominent mexican architects, Legorreta, Norten, Gonzalez, Migdal, Moyao, and a local firm in collaboration with Pei. We ended up in the 4th place. A great experience for a local young firm. The project for this theater included the collaboration of several experts in differents fields. The proposal was a building with two main volumes, the theater itself and the entrance hall. The two volumes were divided by huge walls. The building hall was proposed to be elevated and open towards the city, a light roof supported by a â&#x20AC;&#x153;vortexâ&#x20AC;? column are the main characters at the entrance of this magnificent space.

Metropolitan Theater

Metropolitan Theater | Plataforma de Arquitectura

Interior view of the theater View of the main and the secondary foyer Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández V. Carlos Torres HS Master plan consultant: AGO Construcciones Client: Government of the State of Queretaro Lot surface: 305,623 m2 Total construction: 14180 m2 Location: Querétaro, México. Year: 2006

Metropolitan Theater | Plataforma de Arquitectura

151 SA

he project was conceived from the will of building a space of multiple relationships between interior and

exterior, maintaining the intimacy of two design studios.

The program is defined by the spatial needs of an architecture studio and a graphic design studio that are currently working together to achieve a multi-disciplinary environment that could be able to show a solid corporative presence.

In this aim, the two studios worked together to produce an object in which to experiment graphic design and the built realm, the result was two blind clusters surrounding a central yard to provide natural light all day long, open to east facade but protected at the same time with a screen of punched metal sheets in order to provide different levels of illumination for the work spaces within. Graphic details and ceiling patterns like a tattoo on the concrete slab and several other vinyl applications on the walls and furniture, designed by the graphic design studio or other fellow designers around the world, enriches the space and the architectural experience.

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LIGHT MAPPING

FINAL CONFIGURATION

FAÇADE FINAL RESULT

151 SA / Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández V. Lot surface: 330 m2 Total construction: 380 m2 Location: Querétaro, México. Year: 2008-2009 Project manager: Plataforma de Arquitectura Photography: MRH Fotografía / César Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández Graphics: Tipos Libres Estudio

151 SA / Plataforma de Arquitectura

JFK Middle School The existing building had structural failure therefore the school board decided to launch a restricted competition to design the new building for the middle school of the JFK American School. We obtained the 1st place and the building is being constructed.

The new project dettach itself from the ground by elevate and open the first floor to allow pedestrian flows through the building and to serve as a meeting point among middle school, elementary and high school. The program is divided en three levels that communicate themselves through a central courtyard that provides light and ventilation. Along with the central courtyard is the cantilivered south body that offers a semi-open area for recreational events underneath it.

One of the most important elements is the main access ramp. Located at the west facade, is located right in the main axis of the school, giving character to the new building an

JFK Middle School

providing a great view to anyone who enter the school. The facade system is the solution that answers the needs of each orientation and the personality of the building. The southeast facade has a parametric texture that is the result of the sunlighting needs on that side of the building. The west facade protects the building with a green wall that moisturizes the inner ambience of some areas. North and east facades close themselves to the views.

JFK Middle School | Plataforma de Arquitectura

Sun lights analysis

JFK Middle School | Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández V. Lot surface: 1200 m2 Total construction: 3600 m2 Location: Querétaro, México. Year: 2008 Project team: Plataforma de Arquitectura Photography: MRH Fotografía / César Rodríguez

JFK Middle School | Plataforma de Arquitectura

BELOFT The project is located in the main street of a residential complex on top of a mountain. The lot has a very particular feature: it was divided by the neighbors while the lot was empty, creating a temporary street that cut the lot in two 1 27

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porary street. This gesture allows the neighbors to continue

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passing through the site maintaining the collective memory of the site.

The program was 15 lofts with amenities in three levels

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Apartments connect inner spaces through different levels, while facing south and north facades to front and rear views. The street facade displays a blue texture to provide several tones, shades and reflections to interior and the public space

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systems were proposed for the complex.

as well. Sustainable features such as solar pannels and eolic

Beloft

space.

while the ground floor serves as parking lot and commercial

Beloft | Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández V. Lot surface: 1620 m2 Total construction: 1825 m2 Location: Querétaro, México. Year: 2008 Project manager: CR desarrollos

Beloft | Plataforma de Arquitectura

he master plan proposes a policentre, where the public

The proposed villa is an organism that as the same as its

activities are done somehow back again in the area,

users and inhabitants is able to develop 24 hours a day, 365

creating a sense of neighborhood, giving life back to such

days a year. The functions and uses of the project change

activities as commerce and services in the same zone. The

accordingly to the users and events happening in the public

moderate density in the micro urban centre can work as an

space being this the vital space of the project.

type/example scheme that is able to adapt to different kind of centers with similar characteristics in diverse urban ratios

Activities and flows continue changing in horizontal and

that vary from block centers to the capacity of spreading all

vertical ways constantly. The topography in ground level

across the city, with reaction such as the viral replication.

develops depressions and textures that integrate to walls and buildings.

Instead of an urban plan itself, the proposal is based around a student villa, where the buildings and the architectural program grows and develops according to their inhabitants. One day a student building, then that student becomes a professional with a small company, then that student forms a family and so on in a very common circle of life.

Up to 35 Competition Up to 35 | Plataforma de Arquitectura

The projects began with the analysis of the probable dynamic flows in the intervened zone. The location is highly dense in terms of population, the buildings surrounding the empty lots are high in its north and northwest, but not in southwest. This fact determines in an imperative sense the way the sun and temperature affect the zone. The empty lots generate a grand interconnected space but divided through a secondary street. After an extensive mapping of the dynamic conditions of the place, pedestrian and vehicular flows determined the visual and functional connections of the space.

Up to 35 | Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández V. Miroslava Gómez, Fernando Sánchez Lot surface: 14820 m2 Total project construction: 6755 m2 Location: Athens, Greece Year: 2009 Project manager: Plataforma de Arquitectura

Up to 35 | Plataforma de Arquitectura

ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ROTTERDAM The theme of the first International Architecture Biennale of Rotterdam was Mobility as it relates to the city and the landscape, and the design culture that comes with it.

The school of architecture of ITESM was invited to participate in this event with the project Mexico Avenue. I was invited to be part of one of the teams to develop a segment of the main project the analysis of a section of the avenue, starting from the Zocalo in Mexico City to Los Arcos the most popular landmark in Queretaro. Our node was the intersection of the avenues Viaducto and Cuauhtemoc, primary streets in Mexico City. The location offered an ondulated topography that we explored and analized through the study of dynamic and static conditions in the area and its surroundings. This approach did not deliver formal results but a strong group of conditions that has direct influence in the morphology of

Architecture Biennale Rotterdam

the immediate surroundings. An urban system based on the mutations along the route.

As a result of the preliminar analysis, the proposal consists on an elevated module that combines static and dynamic conditions redefining the urban realm of the area and transforming it into a filter for public transport, pedestrians, vehicles and so on. Opening views and trasnforming itself into an interactive border that flows in different nodes along the route, showing images in an ever changing led skin of information.

Architecture Biennale Rotterdam / Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández and Eloy Munoz Research: ITESM School of Architecture Location: Mexico City Year: 2003 Exhibition: NAi Rotterdam, Netherlands Research Publication: NAi Publishers

Architecture Biennale Rotterdam / Plataforma de Arquitectura

PUNTA Pร JAROS The project is located in front of a green area right in the heart of a private cluster. The small format project aims to give back the sense of community to this neighborhood, opening plot boundaries and views towards the open areas. Public areas within the house live to the exterior through floor to ceiling windows, while the private and service areas are enclosed completely to the inside. There will be three identical units floating in the plot.

The black volume elevates its foundations from the ground, giving the sense of lightness. The main faรงade opens completely to 3000m2 of green areas. The roof slab elevates itself to control daylight to certain areas. The projects is solved in just one story, but there is a playful management of heights in the inside that emphisize de sense of horizontality giving spatial continuity.

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Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández, Miroslava Gómez and Roberto Enciso Ibañez. Contractor: Desarrolladora Rensso Structural engineering: Ing. Miguel Bernal Rosiles Photography: Plataforma de Arquitectura Location: Juriquilla, Qro. Total construction: 128 m2 Year: 2010

Punta Pájaros / Plataforma de Arquitectura

HOTEL BOUTIQUE OCAMPO 17 Located into a world heritage city, this project aims to give a contemporary retreat in the heart of a colonial city in a 19th century old house. Conservation was very important for this project. Original elements, as floor tiles, trees, wall textures, and so on gave us the perfect design strategy to maintain the spirit of the house. Original tiles design were the perfect element to work on iron fences, metalsheet screenings, lighting details and some other elements along the hotel. The most important element in the house is the backyard garden that houses a big jacaranda tree, the guardian of the house with its purple flowers coloring the air.

A new addition of two new rooms to the original cluster is covered with uglass, giving the sense or artificiality among natural elements. The inner courtyard acts more like an installation of dynamic glowing boxes that seems to be moving along the day, you never found the elements in the same position when you come back to the hotel.

Hotel Boutique Ocampo 17

Hotel Boutique Ocampo 17 / Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández, Miroslava Gómez, Fernando Sánchez and David Alvarado Structural engineering: Ing. Miguel Bernal Rosiles Renderings: David Alvarado and Miguel Jimenez Location: Querétaro, Qro. Total construction: 620 m2 Year: 2010-2011

Hotel Boutique Ocampo 17 / Plataforma de Arquitectura

MEDICAL CENTER TEC100 A competition for a new addition at the medica tec100 complex in queretaro city. The developer asked us to design a new wing into the existing parking lot of the complex.

We designed a v shaped building that connects the existing medical facilities and the commercial center next to the plot. The project also considered a small hotel and retail spaces right next to the main avenue.

Medical Center Tec 100

Medical Center Tec 100 / Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández, Miroslava Gómez, Fernando Sánchez, David Alvarado Luis Emilio Lopez and Daniel Camiro Location: Querétaro, Qro. Year: 2010

Medical Center Tec 100 / Plataforma de Arquitectura

CLUSTER AUSTIN A new development of private apartments in austin texas, with private pool and facilities in the heart of the cluster. Each apartment has different configurations according to the needs of every kind of family, with small variations in the structure, so the final result in apperance will be the same.

Cluster Austin Cluster Austin / Plataforma de Arquitectura

Design: Flavio Alfonso Rodríguez, Héctor Hernández, and David Alvarado Location: Austin, Texas. Year: 2012

Cluster Austin / Plataforma de Arquitectura

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