Casa De las Ideas Library

Casa De las Ideas Library
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CASA DE LAS IDEAS LIBRARY

CROstudio

ARCHITECTS
CROStudio

PHOTOGRAPHS
CROStudio

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
Mexico

CATEGORY
Library

Text description provided by architect.

The Casa de las Ideas digital library is located along the canal that runs through the Tijuana Camino Verde neighborhood.

Casa De las Ideas Library
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Casa De las Ideas Library
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The adjacent buildings, mostly residences and businesses built informally, face the same channel, where a large amount of public activity, transport, and both formal and informal business, is concentrated.

Two challenges characterize this area: crime and flooding.

The library is part of the urban development plan, an initiative of SEDESOL, which provides not only the channeling of the river, but the integration of a number of public spaces, parks, recreational areas, community center and library.

Casa De las Ideas Library
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Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio

The aim is to improve the quality of life of its residents and combat crime through the design of civic infrastructure and program spaces.

The proposed library is a space of just 220 square meters. The spatial challenge and questioning about how a digital library can contribute to the city, have generated a new typology for the library: a collective space where learning and interaction of information goes beyond the simple accessibility of these services.

Casa De las Ideas Library
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Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio

Its architecture opens to a number of scenarios both inside and outside. The shape of the building provides an internal multipurpose room on different platforms for lectures, plays, workshops, reading spaces and computer access.

The slope generated by a different levels articulates a void on the outside at the back of the building, where an outdoor forum proposed.

A sequential cascade of spaces makes the smooth and tight building fully open to the public even when outside business hours.

Casa De las Ideas Library
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Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio

The primary intention is to create and contribute to the city through the form of architecture that creates an initiative of civic life in its adjacent spaces.


Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio


Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio
Casa De las Ideas Library
© CROstudio


Casa De las Ideas Library
Plan
Casa De las Ideas Library
Plan and Facades


Casa De las Ideas Library
Elevations
Casa De las Ideas Library
Section


Casa De las Ideas Library
Axonometric
Casa De las Ideas Library
Inhabited Axonometric


Casa De las Ideas Library
Section Diagram, sequence of Spaces