科姆普莱·塔

Firm： VALDEZ ARQUITECTOS

Type： Commercial › Retail Shopping Mall

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2018

Located in the most vigorous district of Puebla City, Komplex Tower rises as a landmark and plays a key role in the urban strategy southwest of the city. Komplex is a development that takes advantage of its mixed uses program in order to bring dynamism to its immediate urban situation. The project breaks up with the establishments of rigid form in architecture and, furthermore, generates an exchange between the arts by incorporating mural painting and sculpture in the built space.

A fifteen-storey high tower with concave facings appears to grow from a two-storey podium that houses commercial spaces. A continuous volume in the shape of an L frames the complex while reflecting with another shorter volume, embrasing the pedestrian and car access. Both volumes blend harmoniously through the crownings of its cornises, fractal patterns pierced in aluminium sheet which, at nightfall, lighten up as abstract constellations that make contrast with the reflecting void of the glass wall façades.

The tower's lobby consists of a transparent three-storey space which only material on the inside are marble tiles and a few wooden details; resulting in a container of shadows and reflections that invites the user to contemplate the space and interact with the art pieces it houses.

The building's structure is resolved in an efficient and rational manner that enables an open floor plan to be used as offices. The buildings remarks its presence in the skyline being outlined by a laminated edge that makes it appear as if it was drawn. Two extruded steel frames in the main façade break with the monotony of the curtain wall and add a gesture of asymmetry and depth. The tower enables spectacular landscape views and particularly from the great hall in the penthouse, from which the limits between city and nature seem to dissolve.

Fernando Valdez Valdez Arquitectos