当墨西哥建筑事务所Rojkind Arquitectos要在自己的家乡设计扩建一个百货公司的时候，这些设计师面临一个特殊都市类型挑战：现有结构需要被加长出两条繁忙的步行街道来满足日益增长的经济发展需求。设计师们想避免在繁忙的人行道边强加一堵厚厚的墙壁，因为厚厚的墙壁会让人的视线变得狭隘，也感受不到外面的都市风景。与其建造一个即使很薄的实墙壁，设计师们反而是将墙壁加厚，设计成一个可以“居住外观”，而且和百货公司想通。Juror Nataly Gattegno把这种是由钢架铝和玻璃纤维蜂窝结构组成的平面叫做“厚实的3D平面”。如此一来，不但提供了空间，站在街上望去，这座建筑还充满了活力。设计师Rojkind Arquitectos 能将这种六边形空穴造型应用在不同的场所，包括商店、影院、餐厅和休息区。顾客可以通过楼梯和斜面通道在厚厚的墙壁里闲逛。








项目信息：
项目名称：墨西哥利物浦百货大楼——Insurgentes
委托人：El Puerto de Liverpool
设计师：墨西哥Rojkind Arquitectos事务所——Michel Rojkind（创始合伙人，主设计师）; Gerardo Salinas, AIA（合作伙伴）; Rodrigo Medina, Arie de Jongh, Juan Carlos Sainz, Victor Martínez, Adrian Aguilar, Alfredo Hernandez, Andrea Leon, Beatriz Zavala, Alberto Villarreal, Felipe Castañeda, Isaac Smeke, Rosalba Rojas, Monique Rojkind (team)
结构工程师：EMR SA
机电工程设计工程师：RCC
景观顾问：Entorno Taller de Paisaje
幕墙安装：Alitech, Arquimart, Todo en Metal
面积：825平米（8880平方英尺）

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Citation: Liverpool Department Store - Insurgentes

When Mexico City–based firm Rojkind Arquitectos was hired to design an expansion for a department store in its hometown, the architects were faced with a particularly urban type of challenge: The envelope of the existing structure would need to be drawn out to two busy streets teeming with foot traffic to meet increased program demands. The firm wanted to avoid imposing a solid wall at the busy sidewalk, but did not have any space to concede for plazas or other urban gestures. Rather than making the outer envelope as thin as possible, the architects thickened the façade and opened it up to the store program, dubbing it a “habitable façade.” Juror Nataly Gattegno responded to this “thick, 3D façade,” as she called it, which takes the form of a steel-framed aluminum-and-fiberglass honeycomb that provides space for program inside while animating the façade to those looking from the street. Rojkind Arquitectos was able to tailor these hexagonal façade cavities to different activities, including shopping, video projection, restaurant, and rest areas. Stairs and ramps allow shoppers to move throughout the building in the façade itself.

Project Credits
Project:Liverpool Department Store - Insurgentes, Mexico City
Client :El Puerto de Liverpool
Architect: Rojkind Arquitectos, Mexico City—Michel Rojkind (founding partner, design principal); Gerardo Salinas, AIA (partner); Rodrigo Medina, Arie de Jongh, Juan Carlos Sainz, Victor Martínez, Adrian Aguilar, Alfredo Hernandez, Andrea Leon, Beatriz Zavala, Alberto Villarreal, Felipe Castañeda, Isaac Smeke, Rosalba Rojas, Monique Rojkind (team)
Structural Engineer:EMR SA
M/E/P Engineer: RCC
Landscape Consultant: Entorno Taller de Paisaje
Lighting Consultant: Ideas y Proyectos en Luz
Façade Installation:Alitech, Arquimart, Todo en Metal
Size:825 square meters (8,880 square feet)

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