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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani

Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani

PRODUCTORA + Palma

ARCHITECTS
Palma, Productora

 CLIENT
Gobierno De La Ciudad De México

TEAM
(Productora) Nicolas Fueyo, Diego Velázquez, Pablo Manjarrez, Fidel Fernández (Palma) Adrián Rámirez, Patricia Gutierrez, Paola Monreal, Marcela Segovia

PRODUCTORA
Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, Víctor Jaime, Wonne Ickx

PALMA
Ilse Cárdenas, Regina De Hoyos, Diego Escamilla, Juan Luis Rivera 

CONSTRUCTION
Grupo Bvg 

PHOTOGRAPHS
Onnis Luque

 YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Ciudad De Mexico, Mexico

CATEGORY
Community Center

Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Text description provided by architect.

PILARES are small neighborhood hubs that provide social, educational, and cultural infrastructure to residents of Mexico City.

Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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An initiative implemented by the Mayor of Mexico City, these Points of Innovation, Freedom, Art, Education, and Knowledge (PILARES, for its acronym in Spanish), provide local residents access to computers and internet, workshop spaces (carpentry, silk-screen printing, dark room, etc.) and flexible rooms for public gatherings.

More than 250 PILARES are planned for Mexico City, and a small part of those were commissioned to architects with a distinguished trajectory.

Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Designed as a collaboration between Mexican offices PRODUCTORA and Palma, the 2-story and 440 m2 structure takes advantage of the physical characteristics of the lot, a small wedge of land in the Center of the Magdelana Contreras borough towards the south-west of Mexico City.

The introduction of a perfectly level upper floor creates a stark contrast with our site’s sloping topography.

Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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While the lower level digs into the ground, the upper level consists of a dynamic composition of blue boxes with diverse proportions and apertures, creating the required variety of interior spatial qualities.

Understanding the severe budget restrictions and little influence we would have on the construction, we designed a simple steel structure: a sturdy framework with generous floor heights that could be adapted over time.

The lower-level digs into the ground.

Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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It is open and transparent and includes covered outdoor areas where neighbors can shelter from the rain or sun, even when the building is closed.

The upper level is claded with industrial insulated panels rendered in a blue textured stucco: a rough application with a DYI feel (almost like a papier-mâché) that expresses the hands-on attitude of the workshops.

Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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Social Infrastructure Pilares Priani
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The effective and basic construction techniques applied made our PILARES project the only of those specific commissions to be finished within budget and time.

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