MAZU 947 is the renovation of an abandoned building located in the south area of Mexico City on the corner lot between Miguel Ángel de Quevedo avenue and Vicente García Torres Street on Coyoacán Neighborhood.
A neighborhood full of history where Frida Khalo, Leon Trotsky, Diego Rivera, Luis Buñuel among many other artists, politicians and well-known personalities used to live.
The original architecture of the house belongs to the modern Mexican movement, it was projected and built in the 60s by the Architect Miguel Giralt Pelegri with a mix of rationalism and colonial currents bringing a design where every part of the program is in contact with the central courtyard.
As many of the houses built on this particular time, the floorplan was configured by many rooms living no open floor plan, so the challenge was to re-use these spaces in order to place small office units in a co-working scheme taking advantage of all the offices in the zone where during Covid-19 there was a shortage of space and many companies had to down-size.
For the design RA! used all of this historical factors in order to bring to life an old building changing its purpose and renovating its spaces,
The façade was intervened where the project proposed two elements, the base covered by black striated block tiles responding to the pedestrian scales and the upper body with rectangular windows that frame the treetops.
On the ground floor of the building the commercial premises are located, around the central patio and the lobby that gives access to the second floor where the offices were placed.
The central patio is the heart of the project and the main space for conviviality between people, as well as the source of light and air that supplies the spaces.
The patio maintains its modernist architecture and brings up the forms of the past, integrating a new contemporary language that looks into the future.
