© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

The building is located at kukulcan avenue in Cancun, next to the yacht club and 20 km far away from the airport. (Quintana Roo , Mexico).The 340m2 site allows a 40% occupancy and a 12 levels height.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

Chak is a little bit far of the hotels zone. Its location emphasize the difference between a hotel building, an apartment building and cancun’s first office building. A serie of variables are analyzed to shape the project: views, obstacles, sun light, colors, structure, geography, topography, geometry, etc.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

The yucatan penninsula topography is totally flat. This join with time achieve the appearance of two types of topography. The first topography is natural and is located under the ground. It’s named “cenotes de agua”. The second type is artificial and is located over the ground, the mayan construction.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

The building pretends to create a meeting space for the people so they can coexist with the avenue and the yacht club.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

A limestone basement emphasize the settlement to the ground. This remind us the pyramids famous long stairs.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

This artificial topography join the avenue with the building at the same time that surround the yacht club.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

An ellipse proposed by the client relation us with the mayan cosmology. The ellipse is born from the stairs and turns around following the levels grownth. This in order to get the best views to the laggon and to the caribbean sea. This turn also belongs to the search of the sun movement.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

The shape has holes. The holes would be private terraces and gardens, these spaces also avoid the direct view from the other bluidings and give more dynamic to the façade. The red color of the building proposed by client would be merge with the blue sky and also relates the birth and the death in mayan culture.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

The structure follows a pattern done by the articulation of different fragmented pentagonal modules that generates a whole. The structure density changes depending on the views, the obstacles, the orientation and the program.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

The ground floor of the building contains retail spaces and restaurants.

© anonimous-LED . Pubblicata il 28 Novembre 2008.

Chak is proposed as the first office building category triple a in the mexican caribbean zone.