Torre Cuajimalpa – Meir Lobaton Corona and Kristjan Donaldson

Lobaton Meir sent us information for your design Cuajimalpa Tower, a residential high to Mexico City. The project has already been published in different media of architecture, yet one of the big questions that arose was how to solve structurally related to the weight of the trees on the balconies. The following is the project with extra material which shows among other things as addresses this situation.

The location of this project is the division of an area larger than the state line split, one side belonged to the State of Mexico and the other to the Federal District.

The project stems from the premise rethink the typological configuration of the residential tower and find a balance between the desire for an independent house and land cost pressure, the answer is a skyscraper to incorporate green spaces on every level not only recreates the experience of a single house, but breaks with the dichotomy between land and building.

Each level is occupied by an apartment of 400 square feet plus an extension indoor garden of approximately 160 square meters. Plants of the apartments rotate 90 degrees to the lower level so that the gardens house the bedrooms flown under them. The helical arrangement to acquire the tower through the stack of apartments rotated, allowing the green areas have a height of three levels, maximizing the penetration of light into interior spaces and allowing the existence of trees. The hierarchy of the garden takes on such importance in the scheme that all social interiors of the apartments are arranged so that relationship with him.

The departments were rotated 90 degrees from floor to floor, allowing space to the gardens. This rotation allows permanent clearances up to triple height, maximizing light to enter interior spaces.