Pujol, JSA needed to protect the essence of the home as a typical dwelling instance of the Polanco neighborhood, with a four-deck roof and a backyard that surrounds and protects it from the road. In such means, potentializing native labor, workforce, supplies, and processes.

Pictures by © Rafael Gamo

Pujol, as one of the crucial vital eating places in Mexico, lead by chef Enrique Olvera, represented an enormous problem. We needed to speak an evolution moderately than a easy swap from its earlier location to the brand new one. It was not supposed to disclaim the previous Pujol, however as an alternative, to take a sequence of ideas that characterised it, translate them to the brand new one and develop them to create a richer expertise for the shopper.

Pictures by © LGM Studio – Luis Gallardo

The guiding idea was to articulate a sequence of various areas in a journey by completely different situations of sunshine, scale, privateness, visible and spatial integration and interior-exterior interplay. We discovered alternatives within the pre-existence, tailored them and built-in them by enlarging mild inputs, eliminating bodily obstacles that remoted areas from one another, and eradicating false ceilings to strengthen the horizontal character of the venture, rising peak in some elements and reducing it in others. All of those actions had been made with the intention to offer expertise with a sure degree of intimacy and neighborhood scale.
A steady indoors-outdoors relationship takes place and makes the shopper work together with the skin in many of the areas, both in the direction of the gardens or in the direction of the orchards. As well as, every area has completely different furnishings preparations to strengthen these experiences.

Pictures by © LGM Studio – Luis Gallardo

Mission Information:
Architects: JSA
Location: Tennyson 133, Polanco, Mexico Metropolis
Lead Architects: Javier Sánchez + Aisha Ballesteros + Micaela de Bernardi
Design Group: Selene García, Alma Caballero, Mario I. Gudiño, Andrea Garín, Laura Natividad
Mission Yr: 2017
Images: Luis Gallardo, Rafael Gamo
Mission Identify: Pujol