Cultural Center Elena Garro

This project is based on the idea of highlighting the existing manor and creates an open space from the library. A transparent block in the front brings out the books towards the street and at the same time incorporates the trees into the inside. From the outside the building is perceived like a great public foyer where books, vegetation and the manor´s façade are exhibited, serving as a pre-amble to the rest of the program. The project is distributed in three principal blocks, the front with a triple ceiling height is almost an exterior space; the manor, destined to be a library, is converted into a transition space to the back which is the auditorium, classrooms, services, offices and parking. Most of the program is concentrated in the new block to the back of the building, which is developed in four levels

Cultural Center Elena Garro

Proyect:  Fernanda Canales + arquitectura 911sc 

Design:  Fernanda Canales, Saidee Springall, Jose Castillo

Team:  Iván Cervantes, Edgar Romero, Arturo Carreón, Anabel Chavez, Javier Juárez

Structure: Grupo SAI

Instalations: Ing. Carlos Medina

Ilumination: Artenluz Arq. Javier Ten

landscape: Entorno Taller de Paisaje (Tonatiuh Martinez + Hugo Sánchez)

Plastic Intervention  “El Bosque Transformado”: Paloma Torres

Location: Fernández Leal #43, Barrio de la Concepción, Coyoacán, México D.F.

Year: 2012

Construction area: 1,358 m2

Photography: Jaime Navarro, Sandra Pereznieto 

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