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Moncayo Club House

MONCAYO CLUB HOUSE

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Moncayo Club House
© Onnis Luque

ARCHITECTS
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VISUAL ARTIST
Abraham Mena

CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Armando Román

ARCHITECTS
Adair Linares, Guillermo López, André Torres, Andrea Trejo, Aníbal González, Edith López, María Carballo, Santiago Olguin

DIRECTOR
Moritz Melchert

STRETEGIC DIRECTOR
Rubén Jiménez

PROJECT COORDINATOR
René Cruz

PHOTOGRAPHS
Onnis Luque

AREA
894.0 m2

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Mexico City, Cdmx, Mexico

CATEGORY
Community Center

Moncayo Club House
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Text description provided by architect.

A building compensating the side effects of a sleeping city.

Moncayo Club House is a community center for a typical middle class sleeping city in the outskirts of Mexico City.

Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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On a social level, the project is an attempt at giving back some of the urbanity a sleeping city usually does not offer; it intends to bring people together and thus fulfills their needs of community life.

The building is strategically located at the entry point to the neighborhood, serving as a recognizable landmark for inhabitants and visitors alike.

Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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It’s all about openness and not seclusion, by stimulating urban integrity. 

This makes the project innovative within its Mexican context.

Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Aesthetically, the project is a contrast to the well-known single-family housing typologies, but also to the colorful earthy containing walls of its surroundings through both; form and use of materials.

Disposing of a clear volumetric language, the entrance arch is undoubtedly an esthetical element, but it converts into an architectural container for the community center’s specific use of a gym (located within the arch), kid’s playroom and pool area on the entrance level and a multipurpose room in its basement, all connected by several terraces.

Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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Moncayo Club House
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