Meir Lobaton has sent us information on their design Cuajimalpa Tower, a residential complex in height to Mexico City. The project has already been published in different media of architecture, yet one of the major questions that arose was related to weight and structural solutions of the trees on the balconies. We continue with the project with extra material which shows among other things as addresses this situation.

Project Description:

The location of this project is the division of a larger site that split the state border, on one side belongs to the State of Mexico and the other to the Federal District.  The project stems from the premise typological rethink the configuration of the residential tower and find a balance between the desire for an independent house and land cost pressure and the answer is a skyscraper that incorporation of green space on every level not only recreates the experience of a single house, but breaks with the dichotomy between land and building.

Each level is occupied by an apartment of 400 square meters over an area interior garden of approximately 160 square meters. The floors of the apartments rotated 90 degrees to the lower level so that the gardens house the bedrooms flown under them. The helical arrangement to acquire the tower through the stack of apartments rotated, allows the green areas having a height of three levels, maximizing the penetration of light into interior spaces and allowing the existence of trees. The hierarchy of the garden has become so important in the scheme that all social interiors of the apartments are arranged so that they have relationship with.

The departments were rotated in 90 º floor to floor, allowing space to the gardens. This constant rotation allows free heights of up to triple height, maximizing the entry of light into the interior spaces.

Due to the unpredictable seismic activity that characterizes Mexico City is thought of an integrated system of braced walls that are designed to withstand lateral movements and to stabilize the structure. Vierendeel system that emerges from the main structure can withstand the rooms to the gardens above. The nearly 4 meters from floor to floor allowing the integration of the pots of 1.5 meters that allow overhanging trees that come out of the study rooms and the apartment below.