Tabacalera
Bacherlor's Final Project | Awarded Best Project
The project is located in Mexico City’s Historic Center. After the intense study of site, location, accessibility, transport, and services and government regulations, it was found an area with excellent potential and possibility of redensification though limited by the size of the plots. Tabacalera is an area with high density of historical buildings (28%), which are protected by policies that prevent the alteration of their current state. They are distributed in small lots within the block, which makes it difficult to merge different properties in order to reuse them and redensify the area.
The project, then, intends to demolish an underused building and merge it with its surrounding plots to achieve an area large enough to develop a high-rise building. It comprises two towers, one a hotel, the other one a housing building.The ground floor is provided with the facilities to redevelop the market that used to be there before, adding retail to to it. To prevent gentrification from happening, different typologies of apartments are designed, from student rooms to 4-member families.
