Amira Architecture / Architonic
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31,800 square meters
year:
2022
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Main architects:
Jaime Mischa Pallas, Jacobo Mischa Mizrahi, Alan Mischa Pallas
Text description provided by architects. AMIRÁ is located on top of a hill, overlooking the city of Querétaro, giving the building a unique view of its surroundings. This relationship and reciprocity between architecture and the city was fundamental to our design process.
The strategic location takes into account its proximity to educational and health centers, hotels, horizontal and vertical residential complexes, as well as lands allocated for future developments with great potential for the region.
The project consists of 126 residential units organized in overlapping and offset blocks with regular geometry, allowing each residential unit to have natural lighting and ventilation. The project’s configuration and size allow all units and most amenities to have a stunning view of the city. Each typology is resolved through an intense relationship with the outside through terraces and floor-to-ceiling glazing.
The regular geometry of the residential blocks is crossed by objects with a more angular, porous and permeable geometry that contain the common areas, demonstrating with this gesture the different uses and dynamics of the programme. These shared spaces of the building’s community project towards the void in the semi-open cantilever, seek to provide users with high-quality spaces. Our architecture protests and reflects on how housing projects solve the types of coexistence in our country.
The rear façade is mainly designed to solve the vertical and horizontal circulation and faces the arrival plaza, while the main façade provides transparency overlooking the city to contemplate its magnificent views with extended balconies that generate shade and mitigate the temperature increase inside, due to its western orientation. .
Two different shades of exposed concrete create the materiality of the facade, which as the sun sets adopts the ocher and earthy tones of the building’s surroundings.
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