Goko practice designed the interior solution for the Map Marketing Offices created for a splendid location in Mexico City. Goko architects also shaped the main element in the interior space – the sculptural staircase.
From the Architects:
The importance of discretion
In one of the main entrances to Mexico City we found a dilapidated building that needed a new life. Located in an area of traffic chaos and visual saturation, the intervention had to be simple, honest and discreet to stand out in that environment. We cleaned the building by removing all unnecessary items accumulated over the years and used a variety of materials as layers, as 'veils' to protect and create appropriate scenarios for each space and function.
Savings all around
The Aluzinc coating of passive solar control on the facade helped us inside with the ideal indirect natural lighting for work and to get the right temperature. This lowered the artificial lighting use and avoided climate control providing significant energy savings. The gray and white tones used on the outside, managed to lose the volume in the gray sky of the city generating a break in the saturated street.
The structure
You enter the building through a white corridor that acts as a filter. This corridor ends in a five-story central atrium that serves as the patio where the offices are lit by zenital daylight. Here we find a second, translucent veil of fifteen-meters high curtains and a recycled materials floor. This allows the passage of natural light to the office, but at the same time functions as visual and acoustic barrier between public and private areas. The view from this hall is framed by ending either up to the sky or to a second outdoor patio, contained by a third green curtain.
This design strategy enabled us to reduce labor costs and time as well as to generate significant, daily energy savings for the building, while optimal spaces were provided for working where greater interaction and creativity were possible.
Project: Map Marketing Offices
Designed by Goko
Project Team: Christopher Koehn, Jose Martín González
Colaborator: Isaac Guzmán
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Website: www.goko.mx
