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Mexico has recently been embarrassed by its second-world ranking in child obesity. Food habits, lack of sports culture, and diminished living conditions are forcing researchers to envision a complicated future of excessive weight health diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular maladies.

Several schemes were developed on a 59,740 sq. ft. plot to study the intricate work relationships that the program might engender: “The patio building,” “The tower and the low building,” “Pavilion Scheme,” “The Atrium Convey,” “Maximum Area Concentration,” and so on. All of them are entrenched in a “production/consumption” food employee system that forms part of the proposed work culture for this new office development.

Isolated on the “Mexico-Veracruz” main highway, the new campus office will produce most of the food needed to feed all employees at lunchtime. Workless spread nearest communities will work the crops, so the land will be “rented” as part of a corporate effort to impel local development, and employees will be encouraged to participate in the care of these plantation areas.

The interior patio provides shelter and temperature control over the main volumes. A unique vegetal palette is designed to retain water and provoke ventilation, with a louver-like door system encircling the central patio as “movable arcades” for the work interior space.

Credits:
Design Architect: Paul Cremoux W.
for Grupo MAC.
Location: Córdoba, Veracruz.
Area: 4,079m² / 34,906sqft.
Team: Grupo MAC.
Status: Built.