Bicentenario Mixed-use Building
Guadalajara, Mexico
The project is born from the need to create a mixed-use complex where offices, services, public spaces, housing, and hotel form a unitary complex open to the city, something which is not typical in Guadalajara.
We organize the complex with three helix-shaped residential towers. In this way all the apartments have good orientation and views, and the towers do not face each other. A fourth tower harbors hotel and offices and seeks greater singularity by making its slenderer side face the busy road.
A large plinth that gathers all the towers is transformed, at ground level, into a commercial area and, on the roof, into a large public space with restaurants. This is the space that is open to the whole city, and the roof of the restaurant becomes the second platform of public space, though for the exclusive use of residents.
From afar, the ensemble appears as a complex and convivial quarter, and not as a monolithic intervention.
Project data
Area
84.750 m2 Dwellings
11.250 m2 Hotel
9650 m2 Trade
9350 m2 Offices
110.000 m2 Parking
Year
Design Development: 2019
Status
Project
Client
Public– UNITERRA / Universidad de Guadalajara
Team
Main Architect: Carme Pinós
Architects: Roberto Carlos García, Holger Hennefarth, Lucía Sentís, Juan Antonio Andreu