Architect：Duarte Aznar Arquitectos

Location：Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico; | ;View Map

Project Year：2019

Category：Offices;Shopping Centres;Hotels

Paseo 60 is located on a substantially flat terrain, unoccupied for 50 years, located within the Merida Monuments Zone in Yucatan, on Calle 60 and a few steps from the Paseo de Montejo, the two main roads of the city.

The assignment was to make a set of buildings that offered the necessary rentable area to accommodate the best exponents of Yucatecan cuisine, a gourmet market, two top-class business hotels, corporate offices and the necessary services for all the mentioned spaces. Tenants and visitors should be able to enjoy the amenities of the set.

Once the program pretensions were stablished and made an exhaustive comprehending and analysis of the context, to communicate it to the users through the experience of the Square, the Portico and the Patio, as elements although not exclusive but characteristic of this city, was the Project generator idea.

In this order, the functional spaces were organized giving form and volume to the essential spaces, which were related to both the urban and environmental surroundings: an open plaza towards the corner to expand public space and generate natural access; an inward courtyard, facing east to receive the prevailing winds and a porch that links both and binds them with the preexistence.

It takes advantage of the place, uses the sun to illuminate the interiors thanks to its narrow bays and also uses the east winds to cool the exteriors, hallways and circulations, which through the profuse arborization of the environment and the property itself, permeates towards the Patio and flows crossed towards the north and south. This courtyard is also shaded by the offices and one of the hotels, which limit this space to the south and west, respectively. The Square, which is also a vehicular lobby, is partially protected by an umbrella with a shape of a metal structured and glass roof tree. Their roofs are shaded and landscaped.

In order to exploits the views of the historical monuments of Paseo de Montejo and Calle 60, despite the adverse aspects of their orientations (according the sun analysis), both hotels faced them, solving the solar inconveniences setting to the east a double glazed insulated with a screen-printed patron for shading, and to the west a simple double insulated glasscomplemented by a ventilated facade constituted by a concrete lattice, whose design evokes the old henequen plantations, a native and symbolic plant of the state whose industrialization and commercialization represented the greatest economic boom in recent history from Yucatan, which among other contributions generated the construction of Paseo de Montejo.

In the construction of Paseo 60, local materials were pretended. In this order stone materials typical of the region were applied as well as in many finishes such as henequen fiber. Prefabricated structure and walls, the glazing and aluminum were also carried out at local plants.

1. Facade cladding: Natural stone, Macedonia Stone by Mayan Stone.

2. Doors: Wood. Glass by Saint Gobain.

3. Windows: Insulated glass by Saint Gobain.

4. Roofing: Tablaroca/Durock(Drywalls) by USG.

5. Walls: Paint, Aesthetic White by Sherwin Williams

1. Natural stone, Macedonia Stone by Mayan Stone.

2. Porcelain floor, Fiber White ZFI1 by Daltile.

3. Synthetic Wood by NewTechWood. 

1. Restroom furniture by American Standard

2. Fixtures by Helvex, &Bobrick

3. Restroom panels by Modumex.

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