Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center

Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín

SANTA FE II CULTURAL AND SPORTS CENTER

Laboratorio de Arquitectura Plástica

LOCATION
Tijuana, Mexico

CATGORY
Installation, Cultural Center

AREA
7147 m²

ARCHITECTS
Laboratorio De Arquitectura Plástica

YEAR
2019

PHOTOGRAPHS
Francisco Javier Caro, Erick Marín

ENGINEERING
Hernán Alarcón Martínez

CLIENTS
Sedatu

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Adobe, Construlita, Etabs, Helvex, Microsoft Office, Ternium, Trimble, Twodframe

A LEAD ARCHITECTS
Israel Carrión, Eduardo Ramírez Plata, José Herrera, Cynthia García, Daniela Urban, Héctor Luna, Rodrigo García

DESIGN TEAM
Israel Carrión, Eduardo Ramírez Plata, José Herrera, Cynthia García, Daniela Urban, Héctor Luna, Rodrigo García

LANDSCAPE
Paola Ordaz

INSTALATIONS
Verushka Gómez Dickinson

Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Francisco Javier Caro
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Francisco Javier Caro

Text description provided by architect.

At the beginning of 2019 and through the Urban Improvement Program, SEDATU in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture UNAM called for groups of academics and practitioners to develop public facilities in locations with a high degree of urban and social backwardness, in border regions of the northern part of the country.

Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Francisco Javier Caro
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín

As part of the projects of this call and solved with a limited budget and schedule, the proposal was developed for a Cultural and Sports Center located on an underutilized site in Colonia Santa Fe II, in Tijuana, Baja California.

The main building is tucked to the north within the site to achieve a series of green spaces and small squares of flexible use, which rise and follow the natural slope of the land.

Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín

The central component, the cultural center, is resolved through a circular element that houses the covered architectural project: on the first-floor services, administration, and nursing, and on the upper floor flexible use spaces for workshops, conferences, meetings, and classes.

Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín

The heart of the building is developed as an open-air forum that allows a multiplicity of appropriations, conceptually the circular shape of the building represents a continuous element, without borders or limits, opposing the border condition present in the reality of Tijuana.

Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín

The building is covered on the upper floor by a double skin of rusted tubes that alternate to reduce the incidence of sunlight and the passage of wind.

On its interior façade, a series of metal frames covered with canvas are proposed, which are removable and allow the intervention of urban artists. Providing a large canvas with a strong presence that dignifies contemporary urban expressions.

Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
© Erick Marín


Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
Sección conjunto
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
Facade


Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
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Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
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Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
Planta cubierta
Santa Fe II Cultural and Sports Center
Planta conjunto