LCM Laboratorio de la Ciudad de Mexico
Our office is interested in creating architecture that is both accessible and appropriate to contemporary society—a task that requires the translation of various interests, ambitions, resources, and programs. Once brought to an analytical plane, these set
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LCM/FERNANDO ROMERO Laboratorio de la Ciudad de Mexico
Dolls’ House
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White Sand House 500-Person Tower Glass For tress Filtering Toy
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Our office is interested in creating architecture that is both accessible and appropriate to contemporar y society—a task that requires the translation of various interests, ambitions, resources, and programs. Once brought to an analytical plane, these sets of conditions can be reviewed and used to establish a clear system, enabling each project to exploit its specific context. The office gathers specialists from different disciplines to feed and materialize each scheme. Our design process involves assembling information and experience from a broad group of engineers and consultants who remain involved in all stages. Software specialists and designers work together to guarantee solutions specific to the ambitions of each project. Without submitting to the constraints of fixed terminology, this close attention to context results in architecture that ranges from the translation of modernism (“boxes” for which the main priorities are schedule and economy) to more dynamic design processes based on technological advances and experimentation. Ultimately, we consider humans to be evolutionar y beings with the tools and skills to rethink their own modernity. Situated in an underdeveloped economy, our office has the unique oppor tunity and challenge of maintaining par ticipation in the international discourse while exploiting the vir tues of our national context—a cheap labor force, the prevalence of handcraft technique, and fresh implementations of recycled technology.
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DOLLS’ HOUSE Mexico City, 2000–01
This project for a room in Desierto de los Leones presented LCM with a great opportunity to experiment with design process and new construction systems. The concept is that one continuous skin wraps over and into itself, defining the interior space and creating a ramp linking it to the garden in which it sits. The volume generated was envisioned as the confrontation of two distinct moments in histor y: a contemporar y outgrowth of a 1950s modernist house in Mexico City, built to accommodate the family’s expansion requirements (a children’s playroom). The room was constructed as a steel rib structure covered first with polyurethane foam and then with an outer layer of polymer, creating a smooth, continuous sur face.
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Final shape study, rendering Skeleton Exit to the garden
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WHITE SAND HOUSE Guerrero, Mexico, 2001
This proper ty is located on a private beach on the Pacific coast. The house was designed as vacation home where a large extended family could enjoy the beach and surrounding site. Local building codes require traditional houses with natural materials, such as stone, and
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