slot studio
Mexican Space Agency
source:slotstudiocom
WINNER OF THE MEXICAN SPACE AGENCY’S CONTEST TO DESIGN A NEW HEADQUARTERS, SLOT’S CAMPUS DESIGN RESPONDS TO THE AGENCY’S NEED FOR COHESION, INTEGRATION AND COMMUTABILITY –VALUES THAT BECAME THE PROJECT’S INFORMING PRINCIPLES– EXPRESSED IN THE CIRCULAR LAYOUT FOR CONSTITUENT STRUCTURES. PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS SPIRAL OUTWARD FROM THE MAIN PLAZA LYING AT THE HEART OF THE CAMPUS AND, AS IF BENDING WITH THE GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF THE MAIN BUILDINGS, VEHICLE ACCESS WAYS WIND IN AN AROUND THE CAMPUS SPACE. THE CAMPUS’ SIGNATURE STRUCTURE, THE PLANETARIUM PULLS THE EYE TOWARD IT, EVEN AS NEIGHBORING BUILDINGS AND INTERSTICES OF GREEN ENTICE THE VISITOR TO EXPLORE THE SPACE JUST BEYOND THE BEND.
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source:slotmx
SLOT is an active and interdisciplinary architectural design studio. People from diverse professional disciplines contribute to this project.
Our work has reached a profound understanding of the human needs, enabling us to intertwine the constructive and philosophical sides of building.
As architects, we push design to its ultimate material consequences and aim for cultural connectivity: sense of usability, mathematics of space and a wide aesthetic research.