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CANCÚN COUNTRY CLUB

The Club House project represents tradition, class and good taste for the Golf Club development.

From the architectural point of view it represents Mexico and recreates the feeling of traditional estates of the mid-nineteenth century; many of them have been restored and turned into relaxation spaces.

This project seeks to recreate opulence images of that era with a modern and timeless elegance.

The market to which this project is addressed appreciates sobriety, style and distinction, it is not necessary impress them with fashionable architecture.

The project contains several independent spaces connected through gates and gardens allowing the visitors to discover it as he walks around. All this creates an atmosphere of relaxation, luxury and comfort.

Materials used are local clear beige limestone, white stucco and white roof tiles, among others.

Light color selection reflects solar heat and combined with the modern décor, creates a comfortable and fresh environment.

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Architects : Pascal Arquitectos, Carlos Pascal, Gerard Pascal

Construction: Proarquitectura, Jack Amquie, Moisés Achar

Date: 1999 - 2000

Area: 5,000 m2

Location: Teapa, Lomas de Chapultepec

Photo Credits: Alberto Moreno, Jaime Navarro

Renewing the concept of the glass box. A concrete evolving element supporting a floated glass curtain over a portico made of granite ensembled with a steel structure which blocks the least attractive views.

The facades were designed based on the building orientation, blocking the west side and open to the north side.

Due to the small size and complexity of the land, the project makes the most out of the profitable and construction allowed renting area.

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Area: 150 m2

Date: 1999

Photo: Alberto Moreno

This project presents a challenge to the traditional corporate image, due to the combination of materials rarely used in buildings of this type, where glass boxes and petrous materials have become protagonists. The brick intersects with the side facades envolving it giving color and warmth, particular of this type of material.

Profitable, sober, versatile spaces, and time lasting facades made with materials that require low maintenance were the main objectives of this project.

The intention of this office building on Montes Urales in Lomas de Chapultepec, was to build a formally interesting and appealing building and at the same time achieve a commercially successful project taking the most advantage possible of each floor plan.

The motor lobby is made by steel beams that generate from the columns emphasizing the entrance. The black steel panels finished in wax add another material that gives the hole building a certain balance.

The main vestibule is an element of surprise, where as the doors open you find a staircase that goes down opening in to a space with a double height completely finished in stone and wood with very subtle accents in steel and lighting fixtures made of orange onyx make of this a monumental as well as dramatic environment within a small rational space.

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Bolivia Building, REFORMA

Built: 2001

Photographer: Fernando Cordero

The remodeling of the Bolivia Building on Reforma Av. is a project based on the respect of the original building –a work of the master Villagran- dignifying it and lending a contemporary contribution to the surroundings.

RENOVATION PROCESS

The building is catalogued as historical and artistic building by the INBA (Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes), which applauded the well-chosen intervention and the great interest on the part of Pascal Arquitectos to want to preserve the rationalist reading of the building and, especially, respecting the original concept and dignifying it.

To such end, they decided to reinforce the horizontality through a double facade that respects the original modulation. Because of problems with sunlight, brises-soleil are used, they were designed and situated according to studies of the sun’s path. In addition, on the Rio Tiber street, the existing facade of vertical proportions was eliminated and substituted by windows with horizontal proportions. The ventilation existing on this face is eliminated so as to conform the volume.

The construction process required intensive coordination with the personnel working at the corporate headquarters, in addition to well-designed construction logistics, since the work had to be done without suspending normal activities. So as to avoid demolition work and to need only clean up –which reduces construction costs- on the Rio Tiber facade, mechanical guides will be anchored to the structure. The hanging marble will be stapled. This is to be done in order to position the Luxalon panels that will generate this face.

The facade with the brises-soleil is made up of thermobrise plates and aluminum profiles anchored to the structure by stainless steel brackets. The existing entranceway is substituted by aluminum profiles and floating 9 mm glass, which according to studies done on physical and mechanical behavior provides better thermal insulation than the use of double panel glass. Vertical joints use a common node that will favor the displacement of each of the parts and will absorb the movements generated by earthquakes or by the self- compression of the building.