Lago|Algo – Mexico City, Mexico
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Lago|Algo – Mexico City, Mexico
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Designed by
Naso
Image Credit
© José Ignacio Vargas
Project Description
Lago|Algo is a cultural centre created and run by CMR and OMR, located in el Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City. The architectural project consisted of the re-programming of the existing building which was originally designed by Leónides Guadarrama and Alfonso Ramírez Ponce in 1964 and subsequently renovated by Javier Sordo Madaleno in 1998. The urban aim of the project is to regenerate the second section of el Bosque de Chapultepec by offering a new public programme emphasising contemporary art and sustainable food, thereby forging new tensions within the existing recreational and cultural infrastructure of the park. We noticed that, throughout the archaeological history of the building, the architectural aim of the original 1964 project was the containment of different adjoining spaces - which together formed a restaurant - by a hyperbolic paraboloid ceiling. The main purpose of the spatial renovation of ´90s was to offer different spatial possibilities for the production of private events, firstly by adding new spaces adjacent to the original structure, and secondly by dividing the existing restaurant space into three independent spaces, which meant that visitors were unable to appreciate the complete hyperbolic paraboloid ceiling.
