丨墨西哥奇瓦瓦丨OficinaTransversal

Architects:OficinaTransversal

Area:850m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Ricardo Arellano

Manufacturers:Construlita,GCC

Lead Architects:Cesar Heredia, Evangelina Guerra

Category:Pavilion

Design Team:Donaji Jimenez, NIcol Romero

Engineering And Consulting > Structural:Preforte

Engineering And Consulting > Lighting:Construlita

Engineering And Consulting > Civil:Servicios administrativos GCC

City:Chihuahua

Country:Mexico

Text description provided by the architects. The structure designed to host multiple corporate social events is located in a special setting, at the edge of the urban sprawl between the Sacramento River and the Sierra de Nombre de Dios, and is conceived as a habitat that integrates with and frames the landscape. The pavilion sits at the foot of the hill, next to an existing masonry wall, among large trees and on a raised embankment designed to level and elevate the views towards the surroundings.

It is organized around a grid of concrete frames that support the roofs and create a sequence of patios and shaded spaces, where movement, light, air, and vegetation become the main features and invite users to relax from the everyday routine.

The raw material in various formats is concrete. The structural elements made on-site were pigmented in earthy tones, while prefabricated elements such as blocks, cobblestones, and the hollow core slab system were worked in natural colors, aiming to create a cozy and timeless place that blends with the landscape.

To enhance the climatic comfort and biodiversity of the site, a palette of desert, gallery, oak forest, and ornamental ground cover vegetation was integrated, which over time and with maturation will establish another layer that embraces the place.

The pavilion is a piece of architecture designed for permanence, recognizing the essence of the environment and the expressiveness of the volumes under light.

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