LeNoir & Asociados

Banorte Building

Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

BANORTE BUILDING

LeNoir & Asoc. Estudio de Arquitectura

PROJECT MANAGMENT
PMP Consultores

ELECTRO MECHANIC ENGINEERING
Hidráulico Y Sanitario - Gerencia De Instalaciones S.a. De C.v. Eléctrico – Informática E Ingeniería Integral, S.a. De C.v.

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROJECT
Alexandre Lenoir, Ramón Garduza, José María Pérez

STRUCTURAL ENGENIEERING
Ing. Federico M. Garza Martinez

SCULPTURE
Roberto Cortázar

CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS
LeNoir & Asociados, Alejandro Arreguín, Antonio Ibarra, Julia Díaz

PHOTOGRAPHS
Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

AREA
45.0 m²

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
San Nicolás De Los Garza, Mexico

CATEGORY
Institutional Buildings

Text description provided by architect.

The Banorte Contact Center, located in the heart of an old industrial and educational zone in the city of Monterrey.

Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

Built in a 14,400sqm site located in one of Monterrey’s most important north/south Axis Avenue, just a few meters away from the University City and the “Niños Heroes” public recreational park.

The project aims to build on a future stage of development other operatives, services and amenities facilities structures, reason why part of the site had to be reserved for future growth.

The surrounding environment evokes an industrial and austere character, with old factories and warehouses as its main components.

Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

This condition motivated the proposal of mechanized and simple aesthetics for the building.

The monolithic facade is barely interrupted by red metallic volumes extruded from a concrete base, which contain operatively relevant interior functions.

Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

The interior distribution scheme represented a functional challenge: providing natural light to the central area of a building with a strong horizontal proportion.

This conditioning led to the subtraction of the central part of each concrete slab to create an interior plaza.

Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

The heart, or subtracted nucleus, from each office floor is randomly moved towards its facades to contain common and service functions, necessary for the operation of 1400 attention stations.

The second challenge was presented by its daily operations: mobilizing the daily flow of 2000 people, complying with the high security levels inside a bank institution.

Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

Elevating the main volume containing offices on pilotis, a central plaza was created between the basement parking lot for 800 cars and the operative area of the building, meeting the needs of pedestrian flow distribution, as well as service and recreation areas required.

This big open space in the main floor of the building helps to articulate and distribute people throughout many accessibility filters, from the most public to the most private ones.

Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

The building’s external skin is composed of a solar filter system that allows a natural entry of light, while at the same time minimizing every of its negative side effects, such as heat exposure, excessive light, etc.

This treatment is repeated in three of the four main facades, being the main facade the exception to the rule.

The main façade rotates on itself, with a “trois-quarts-face” gesture, to direct its main curtain wall view to the “Niños Heroes” park, redirecting vehicular flow of the main access esplanade.

Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos

With its horizontal configuration, the vertical circulation unfolds with open arms that rise in four cardinal vertices with emergency stairs. In the east and west facades, random cubes are extruded, forming a play of light and shadow on this plane.


Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos
Banorte Building
© Eduardo Alarcón Ceballos


Banorte Building
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Banorte Building
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Banorte Building
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Banorte Building
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Banorte Building
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Banorte Building
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