WIT Apartments

Guadalajara, Mexico
Photo © Jorge Taboada
Entrance
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Front Desk
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Lobby
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Front façade
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Photo © Jorge Taboada
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Balcony
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Photo © Jorge Taboada
Photo © Jorge Taboada
Rear façade
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Roof top
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Roof top
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Roof-top
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Roof-top
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Collective area
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Collective area
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Collective area
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Collective area
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Corridors
Photo © Heriberto Hernández
Apartment Interior (glass bricks detail)
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Apartment Interior
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Façade trees
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Façades
Drawing © LEAP
Cross section
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Cross section
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Level 01
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Roof top
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Architects
LEAP Laboratorio en Arquitectura Progresiva
Location
Justo Sierra 2135, Guadalajara, Mexico
Year
2021
Client
Desarrolladora Altopunto
Team
Heriberto Hernandez, Raul Juarez, Oscar Gonzalez, Jorge Carrillo, Luis Fernando Magaña - MTQ, Fergie Flores Infantes
Perforated metal sheet supply.
LADESA
Market Analisys
Grupo 4S
Construction Documents
MTQ de México

The context influences the new building design impregnating it with the place's effervescent culture. Its inhabitants appropriate the spaces in some way, from private to public, passing through the connecting elements: corridors, stairs, lobbies, and ending at the small square that makes the building's first contact with the sidewalk and the neighborhood. The heart of the program is ample double-height space on Level 1. It is an indoor area with flexible uses where workshops on art, reading, gastronomy, and cultural events, in general, are held. This core program component led to WIT being recognized as one of the most disruptive real estate proposals in Latin America at the ELDI held in Panama City 2018 (being still unbuilt).

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