Ample daylight, employee ammenities and low-maintenance gardens function in a big campus for a housewares firm that was designed by Mexican structure studios Estudio MMX and Luis Campos.
The mission – known as Campus Betterware Guadalajara, or CBG – occupies a 7.5-hectare website in El Arenal, a city north of Guadalajara within the western state of Jalisco.
It serves as a key campus and distribution centre for Betterware, a family merchandise firm with worldwide attain.
Totalling 15,000 sq. metres, the campus encompasses administrative area and a collection of warehouses for delivery, receiving, sorting and storage.
It additionally provides employee facilities reminiscent of a cafeteria, fitness center, leisure room, hairdresser, laundry facility, infirmary and youngsters’s nursery.
Creating continuation between the completely different programmatic areas was a key concern for the design staff – Mexico Metropolis’s Estudio MMX and native architect Luis Campos.
“An vital facet that decided the configuration of the campus – and that’s crucial for the optimum functioning of an industrial constructing of this kind – is the horizontality and continuity between operative areas,” the staff mentioned.
The staff conceived 9 particular person buildings set inside a backyard panorama, serving to to make sure customers have entry to “high-quality areas and experiences”.
Pathways hyperlink the buildings and permit employees to cross the gardens.
Two of the buildings are elongated, rectangular bars that sit perpendicular to one another.
The opposite seven buildings are roughly sq. in plan, and so they encompass the bars in a staggered formation.
For structural framing, the staff used concrete and metal painted in a reddish hue. Stretches of glass usher in pure gentle.
The language of the outside continues indoors, the place one finds voluminous areas and uncovered structural components.
Plenty of components that the staff mentioned contribute to sustainable design have been integrated into the campus.
A staff that focuses on bioclimatic design helped conceive architectural options which are appropriate for the location, together with methods to include passive air flow and pure lighting.
Photo voltaic panels assist provide power to the power. The campus additionally has its personal water-treatment plant, which features a rainwater harvesting system.
The panorama options crops which are low-maintenance and tailored to the native local weather. “Dry rivers” have been built-in into the location to channel rainwater towards the gardens and assist water infiltrate the soil.
Different initiatives by Estudio MMX embrace a Yucatán geology museum that “consciously synthesizes” Mayan and modern structure, and a Mexico Metropolis house that consists of towering volumes that step down a hillside.
The images is by César Béjar.
Mission credit:
Design: Estudio MMX and Luis Campos
Collaborators: Santiago Vázquez, Ana Nuño, Gerson Guizar, Lesly Noguerón, Gabriel González
