The Mexicans Colectivo C733 have found in the ideas of Eladio Dieste a constant source of inspiration: in their a rational approach to the use of materials, their respect for human effort, and their way of understading the project as a perfectly orch

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Mexican collective C733 uses constructive clarity to create community. Connecting civic circumstances with their culture of contention, coordinating the changing conditions with costs or climate, and combining their convictions and concepts with

Al Borde   C733 is formed by Gabriela Carrillo (Taller Gabriela Carrillo), Carlos Facio, and José “Chipe” Amozurrutia (TO), Eric ‘Master’ Valdez (Labg), and Israel Espín, all graduates from the Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méx

Colectivo C733    Mexico   In the framework of a national effort to revitalize vulnerable urban areas, a market raised by means of a low-cost building system aspires to become a neighborhood’s nerve center. The edifice takes on the solid but permeable character of traditional

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Helios Park, a baseball field in Ciudad Acuña – in the Mexican state of Coahuila – was clearly in a state of neglect and deterioration. An undertaking of SEDATU (Mexico’s Secretariat for Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development), the refurbishment sough

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Through the Mexican government's Urban Improvement Program, implemented by SEDATU (Secretariat for Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development) and with the community participating, the project for the new Guadalupe Market was undertaken for the pur

Colectivo C733    Mexico   While Cecil Rhodes dreamt of stringing together Britain’s African colonies with a train that traveled from Cairo to Cape Town, the governments of the American nations had the similar vision of strengthening ties across the New Continent; and although

Colectivo C733    Mexico   In the city of Nacajuca, in the Mexican state of Tabasco, stands the House of Music designed by Colectivo 733 (Gabriela Carrillo, Eric Valdez, Israel Espín, José Amozurrutia, Carlos Gacio). The community center reuses the foundations of a previous bu

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The project proposes the integration of a mixed-use program: public market, library, football pitch, calisthenics area, children’s playgrounds, and parking. With three street-facing fronts, the design emphasizes urban permeability. The covered spaces

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Integral part of a set of five urban projects oriented towards dignifying the public spaces, the plaza is conceived as a large green sponge capable of capturing and filtering water runoff. Through a network of rain gardens and wetlands arranged by gr

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The site assigned for the center was occupied by an old movie theater: an enclosed gray concrete structure, detached from the context and with its back to the river, next to a half-empty plaza and quiet streets. The answer to these conditions was a h

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Mercatram Balancán combines key functions for community well-being: a traditional market, a bus stop, a center for community development, and a space for waste treatment. The scheme seeks to favor a more conscious relationship with the environment an

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Xpujil market is part of an urban strategy that includes five key projects: bus stop, market, library, center for community development, and municipal presidency. To optimize resources and create a greater impact, some programs were integrated in one

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The Mexican firm Colectivo C733 – Carlos Facio, Eric Valdez, Israel Espín, Gabriela Carrillo, José Amozurrutia – were commissioned to design the Bacalar Eco-Park, which covers 1,900 square meters in an area of 70,000. The main objective was to minimi

Colectivo C733    Mexico   Known for its historical role during the Mexican Revolution, because it is the place where the Plan de Ayala was signed in 1911, the village of Ayoxuxtla was severely damaged by the 2017 earthquake. For this reason, the SEDATU decided to build a new

Colectivo C733    Mexico   San Blas is one of the historical towns of the Riviera Nayarita, which stretches along the coast of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development (SEDATU) sponsored the project to adapt the San Blas Pier to se

Colectivo C733    Mexico   The historical customs building of San Blas, a port city in the Mexican state of Nayarit, preserved its ground level and an old corridor. Commissioned by the Secretariat for Agrarian, Territorial, and Urban Development (SEDATU), the project aimed to

Colectivo C733    Mexico   On the shore of the Bacalar Lagoon, these free-of-charge public-recreation baths present stepped limestone walls that absorb the elevation changes and form terraced viewpoints. The intervention diffuses the edges with a built complex integrated into

Colectivo C733    Mexico   With the fast-paced growth of the city of Tulum, a well-known tourist destination on the Caribbean, and the threat this poses to the landscape, Jaguar Park emerges as an inter-institutional initiative whose main objective is to protect the ecosystems