Tlatelolco Visitor Center (Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 2007)
The brief called for a gallery to be located in Tlatelolco, the site of the largest public housing development in Latin America. Instead of having a free standing facility housing the public program, we proposed to embed it within one of the existing residential buildings in the form of a hanging glass box. The addition functions as a panoramic elevator, observation deck and extension of the generous interior communal spaces, inspired by the notion of the "street in the heights" proposed by the architect and father of modernism, Charles-Édouard Jeanneret "Le Corbusier." The glass box is meant to stimulate new ways of understanding the site architecturally and urbanistically; both a sight to behold and a vantage point from which to behold the site.
Project team: Raymundo Pavan, Marisol Moreno, Rodrigo Alcocer, Daniel Daou