The stone-like appearance of the vinyl that shapes the volumes of the installation strikes a contrast with the lightness of its making: the large curtains levitate on a layer of the same crushed material to manifest how it is infinitely recyclable.
Conceived as a housing experiment, Chiripa comprises six units in a hybrid between the house, apartment, and hotel typologies – usable in different configurations, as needed by the users. The Mexico City-based firm Palma – Ilse Cárdenas, Regina de Ho
As part of Concéntrico festival, the project stacks ceramic blocks to transform a long, narrow corridor in the old Tobacco Factory complex into a built-up space that takes visitors on a promenade through different spatial experiences...
After the earthquake that shook central Mexico in 2017, initiatives cropped up to attend to affected areas. Fifty architecture practices participated in ‘Reconstruir México,’ working with families found to be in highly vulnerable situations. One was