Casa AV is a project located in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. It lies to the west of the city, on a slope that offers panoramic views of great importance, which lead to two principal focal points.
Architecture firm
Rafael Pardo Arquitectos
Location
Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
Photography
Onnis Luque, Edmund Summer, Naser Nader Ibrahim
Principal architect
Rafael Pardo Ramos
Structural engineer
Gonzalo Zaldo
Construction
Rafael Pardo Arquitectos
Material
Concrete, Steel, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
The new Belgian Embassy in Mexico, designed by Abraham Cota Paredes, Lucio Muniain, and Rafael Pardo, is a refined exercise in architectural diplomacy. Located in the residential neighborhood of Polanco, it balances the symbolic role of representing a nation with the subtle art of urban integration.
Project name
The New Belgian Embassy in Mexico
Architecture firm
Abraham Cota Paredes, Lucio Muniain, Rafael Pardo
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Tools used
CAD, SketchUp, V-ray
Principal architect
Abraham Cota Paredes, Lucio Muniain, Rafael Pardo
Design team
Abraham Cota Paredes, Lucio Muniain, Rafael Pardo
Visualization
Alfredo Sanchez, Oscar Santiago Ruiz
Client
Belgian Embassy in Mexico
Typology
Government, Embassy
Architect Rafael Pardo's buildings are almost sculptural: concrete prisms intersecting to form domestic spaces. In each of his projects he seeks to push the properties of concrete to the limit to achieve greater formal expressiveness, so that the material becomes structure, wall and finish. This publication narrates the premises and processes of hi...
Title
Rafael Pardo - New Brutalism
Buy
https://www.arquine.com/producto/rafael-pardo-nuevo-brutalismo
Language
English, Spanish
