Firm： Producto Camarena

Type： Commercial › Exhibition Center Office Cultural › Cultural Center Gallery Hall/Theater Museum Educational › Auditorium Other Hospitality + Sport › Hotel

STATUS： Concept

SIZE： 300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft

Vertical City is composed by a group of public spaces distributed in vertical, combined with a pay-per-hour capsule hotel.

The interior is configured as the stacking of big spaces that intersect, deform or overlap creating different relations between the public programs. Their scale contrasts with the domestic scale of the spaces of the hotel located in the façade. The interaction between the public spaces and the private program of the hotel, between urban and domestic scale, it is different at every level. In some floors the separation between them two consists of a simple curtain that every visitor can cross; in other levels this partition is a movie screen, or a glass, or there is just nothing in between the public center and the hotel.

This double program proposal provides with spaces for silence and contemplation in contraposition to the effervescent activity that occurs in the interior, creating a vertical community that opposes “the lonely” and “the collective” as two of the main ingredients of the identity of contemporary mega cities.