Plaza Návita

Along years, 32 Avenue has been one of the most crowded avenues of the city; in which this, create areas with capital gains, and make them more important; However new architectural projects that are involve in those areas knows, that there are many blockage in design or zonification , forgetting the use they would be forming apart. The idea consist in developing spaces involving people, creating comfort living and sitting areas that brings them desire to stay, avoiding the mechanical process of buying and leaving apart.

We’re looking for a mattress between cars and stores making the stay more comfortable, it also don’t intent to use expensive materials, and instead bets for better vegetation, using trees to generate shadows, and bringing the expectation of being in another city, in another place.

Facts:
Architects: R79 
Location: San Antonio Cucul, 97116 Mérida Yucatán, México 
Project Year: 2013 
Architect in Charge: Roberto Ramirez Pizarro 
Design Team: Daniela Álvarez, Cristina Madera, Gerardo Trejo, Eduardo Vadillo, Pedro Manzanilla 
Area: 1650.0 m2 
Construction: Constructora MIGA/ Ing. Mauricio Gamboa

The diagram used, it’s about a central courtyard, this because every store is connected to it, both, the central and the ones at the end of it; in which in them, the stairs are located and carry us to the second floor were we can found roofs, and more exclusive stores, and also in there converge 3 parking lots. (1 in front and 2 more located at the back of the mall)

The 10 central stores are to doble height and present a complete frontal facade made of glass and also a black aluminum lattice window that brings them some motion. The intention is to involve interior with exterior, introducing the roof and converting it, in an extension of the internal space of each one. Central Courtyard purchase its own roof character by his permeable adocreto flooring and his surrounded 7m tall Chakás (trees from the region), likewise the entire space is hold and confine by an IPRs metallic structure at double height and whose western face little by little gets linked, to form several metallic frames.