DESIGN DESCRIPTION
Urban Filter

This project was conceived as an urban device aimed at restoring green to the city and reducing its environmental footprint. The building serves as an inner-city filter, sucking warm, polluted air from the main avenue into its vertical garden. The green roof and vertical panels with vegetation were designed to help control temperature and humidity and to give residents a place to enjoy, a new outdoor quality space without leaving their home.

The structure is proposed with steel beams screwed, shifting electrical energy into human power. Low-ecological-impact materials were chosen, and solar panels were installed on the roof to generate electricity for the main areas and hot water for each of the 21 units.

This Project was shown at MAM (Museum of Modern Art of Mexico City) as a contribution to the exhibition about México City and sustainability trends.

Credits:
Design Architect:
Paul Cremoux W.
Adriana Monroy N.
Structural Engineering:
Guillermo Tena
Equipment engineering: JPG
Project team:
José Carlos Da Silva, Erands
Javier Salinas, Óscar Martínez
Area: 2,454m² / 264,142sq. ft.