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Architects: Jorge Urias Studio
- Area: 300 m²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Rafael Gamo
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Manufacturers: ECUSA, El Paso Concrete Systems Inc.
Text description provided by the architects. The Anapra neighborhood in the city of Juarez Mexico is a place with richness of textures and exposed materials, where the built environment can be seen as a reflection of its people's creativity portrayed in their unique construction systems.
We were commissioned the design of a low-cost commercial structure with an open floor plan that could be redistributed as needed.
Given the brief, we opted for an exposed material that would resonate with the site. A solid concrete mass emerges from the ground and is carved by a continuous pattern resembling the outlines of hidden potentialities within settlers and their surroundings.
The raw materiality of the tilt-up concrete panels, inherits the dynamic activities and informalities found in the neighborhood, and creates an unprecedented structure which mirrors the qualities on site, becoming the building’s skin.
