Isaac Broid

Teopanzolco Cultural Center

TEOPANZOLCO CULTURAL CENTER

Productora, Isaac Broid

Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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ARCHITECTS
Productora, Isaac Broid

CLIENT
Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de Morelos (Cristina Faesler)

STRUCTURE
Colinas del Buen (Efren Franco y Selene Cortes)

BIOCLIMATIC COUNSEL
Bioarquitectura (Gerardo Velazquez Flores)

THEATRE COUNSEL
Alejandro Luna e Itzel Alba

ENGINEERING
Taller M2 (Jose Madrid)

PROCESSING FACILITIES
TIM (Mariana Garcia)

ACOUSTIC COUNSEL
Cristian Ezcurdia y ARUP (Jaume Soler)

SCENIC EQUIPMENT SYSTEM
Jorge Romero

DESIGN AND LIGHTING
Luz y Forma

AREA
7000 m²

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Cuernavaca, Mexico

CATEGORY
Theater

Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro

Text description provided by architect.

The project for the new Cultural Center is located on a site opposite the archeological zone of Teopanzolco, a situation that proposes two fundamental strategies: on the one hand to enhance the relationship with the archeological site and on the other to generate a significant public space.

The building is organized around two elements, a triangular building that contains the public programs (lobbies, services, box office, cloakroom, auditorium) and the platform surrounding it that contains the operation zones (dressing rooms, storage, workshops, etc), including a multipurpose black box theater.

Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro

The horizontal platform surrounding the triangular building serves as a viewing area for the archeological zone and towards the city.

This grand plinth contains a series of patios, one of which, facing the secondary entrance to the auditorium, has been sunk into the ground to create a small open-air theater space.

Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro

This platform generates a variety of exterior spaces and resolves the secondary access to the interior of the auditorium or to the platform itself, while incorporating the existing large trees.

Meanwhile, the main triangular-shaped roof comprises a large stepped ramp that emerges from the intersection with the horizontal platform that surrounds it and substantially reduces the physical presence and visual impact of the new building, as well as converting the roof itself into an additional open-air auditorium, which has the archeological site as a backdrop.

Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro

This great triangular esplanade forms the roof of the auditorium’s main hall, and contains another, smaller triangular esplanade that in turn forms the roof of the main lobby.

Both platforms descend in opposite directions and create a visual interplay of inclined planes that can be appreciated from different points of the building.

Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro

The main lobby is a semi-open space with strategically located apertures permitting cross-ventilation, avoiding the use of electrical air conditioning systems.

The axis of composition of the triangular floor plan of the entrance space was deliberately aligned with the main pyramid.

Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro

As a result, the lobby placed exactly opposite the pyramid becomes a viewpoint and a space for meeting before or after events, and a space that establishes an ongoing dialogue with contemporary cultural life and the presence of the past.

Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
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Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro


Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
© Jaime Navarro


Teopanzolco Cultural Center
Lower Floor Plan
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
Second Floor Plan


Teopanzolco Cultural Center
Sections
Teopanzolco Cultural Center
Elevations


Teopanzolco Cultural Center
Site Plan

Isaac Broid
T +52 55 362386 F +52 56 870815
Isaac Broid
Amsterdam #18 Pb, Col. Hipódromo, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Productora
T +52 55 30927746
Productora
C. Dr. Lucio 181, Doctores, Cuauhtémoc, 06720 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico