AAF Gallery / S-AR

AAF Gallery / S-AR - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

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  • Architects: S-AR
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  234
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2020
  • Photographs
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Vitro®, Cemex, Maderería el Salto, Metall und Logistik
  • Lead Architects: César Guerrero, Ana Cecilia Garza
  • Collaborators: Carlos Morales, Marisol González
  • Structural Engineer: CM Ingeniería
  • Supervision: S-AR, Gonzalo Tamez
  • Builder: Gonzalo Tamez, Enrique López
  • City: Monterrey
  • Country: Mexico
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AAF Gallery / S-AR - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

Text description provided by the architects. The aim of this project is to distribute the gallery spaces in a small three-story building. The first floor contains a public space for readings and lectures, as well as a kitchen to help prepare exhibition openings. At the rear of this level, a room was created for artist residencies, containing its own bathroom and a patio. This level employs a construction system based on unfinished cinder block walls and steel deck slabs on white-painted IPR beams. The enclosures are made specifically for this building from wood, aluminum, glass, and metal mesh.

AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

The second level is the open-plan exhibition area intended to display a range of artworks and interventions. This level has walls finished in plaster, white paint, and a reticular reinforced concrete slab with coffered formwork that was left exposed.

AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography, Dining room, Table, Chair
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

On the third floor, a reading room also serves as an office and meeting room. This space is clad with strips of pine wood and a ceiling slab of exposed, bare concrete. The gallery is crowned with an open-air patio that also serves as a lookout point when the metal doors enclosing it are opened.

AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography, Windows
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

All these spaces are positioned at the center of the plot, leaving the vertical circulation routes on the side of the adjacent property boundary, while the other side forms a lateral patio letting light into the ground floor. This establishes a contrast with the dark ambiance of the circulation block, where the staircases form single flights: a concrete stair in the first section and a timber stair in the second.

AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal
AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Windows
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal
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AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

The upper levels receive daylight from the short sides of the volume, through folding doors that can be adjusted to provide more or less light and privacy, and also form the front and rear façades. The south-facing lateral wall is clad with corrugated metal to provide a thermal barrier to solar gain. Combined with the polystyrene-filled blocks used in the walls, this helps to keep interiors fresh during the city’s warmest months.

AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography, Dining room, Table, Chair
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal
AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography
© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

Taken together, these construction, layout, and finishing elements serve as artifacts added to the basic structure to provide the building with specific advantages in terms of thermal comfort, light, and appearance.

AAF Gallery / S-AR - Interior Photography, Table
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Address:Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

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Cite: "AAF Gallery / S-AR" [Galería AAF / S-AR] 01 Jun 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/982820/aaf-gallery-s-ar> ISSN 0719-8884

© Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

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