Winners of the contest Environmental Culture Center in Chapultepec
Note originally published in Archdaily MX
Mexico City's Ministry of the Environment announced the winning project of the National Competition for the Thematic Ethnobotanical Garden, Environmental Culture Center in the Second Section of Chapultepec Forest, which will be part of a master plan for the "Chapultepec Forest: Nature and Culture". Once the analysis and deliberation of the projects was concluded, the members of the jury highlighted the quality and high level of the participants of the five projects presented. The first, second and third place winners were as follows. Read on to learn about the winning project and the four finalist proposals.
"The Environmental Culture Center (CCA) will be a space dedicated to the knowledge of ecology, the natural wealth of the country and will be located in the second section of the Chapultepec Forest."
- Secretary of the Environment of Mexico City
FIRST PLACE
Rafael Ponce Ortiz / Erre Q Erre Architecture and Urbanism, Juan Ansberto Cruz Gerón (Master in Hydraulic Engineering), Oscar Ramírez Martínez (Biologist), Fortino Acosta Moreno (Industrial Engineer), Juan Ansberto Cruz Gerón (Master in Hydraulic Engineering), Oscar Ramírez Martínez (Biologist), Fortino Acosta Moreno (Industrial Engineer)
rbanism, Juan Ansberto Cruz Gerón (Master in Hydraulic Engineering), Oscar Ramírez Martínez (Biologist), Fortino Acosta Moreno (Industrial Engineer), Fortino Acosta Moreno (Industrial Engineer), Juan Ansberto Cruz Gerón (Master in Hydraulic Engineering), Oscar Ramírez Martínez (Biologist).
SECOND PLACE
Martín L. Gutiérrez Guzmán (gutarqs), Martín Gutiérrez Córdoba (gutarqs), Daniel Macías Capdevielle (d.m. workshop), Lorena Iturralde (aplenosol) / Design Team: Sebastián Bidault, Juan Clavel, Jorge Andreas, Rafael García, Natalia González, Paola Avilés, Eduardo Díaz, Shary Ramírez, Pablo Aguilar, José Miguel Ortíz, Ana Sofía Ganem (logo design), Paulina Guillén (logo design), Javier Rabadán(Videns) (renderings), Visorama (landscape renderings), Mariana Camacho (pencil drawing) / Engineering: Javier Ribé (structural engineer) / Landscaping: Ana Cortés, Erlu Marem, María José Soulé, María Rendón, Zaira Trejo / Consultants: Patricia Gascón (sociologist), José Luis Cepeda (sociologist), Eduardo León (hydraulic engineer), Diego Valdivia (hydraulic engineer), Mauricio Rendón (biologist), Emiliano Arroyo Sánchez (biologist), Adriana Rojas (urban planner), Victor Fuentes (bioclimatic architect), Ernesto Bachtold (environmental engineer), Alicia Chacalo Hilu (arborist), Alicia Silva Lillanueva (sustainability expert), Montserrat Martínez Zepeda (cost specialist architect), Marissa Meljem (sustainability, leed), Stephanie Rangel (environmental education).
THIRD PLACE
Abraham David Cherem Cherem (Cherem Arquitectos) José Antonio Aguilar García (Architect), Laurent Gilles Herbiet Santos (Architect), Susana Giordana Rojas Rocha (Architect), José Oscar Trejo Martínez (Civil Engineer), Georgita Jane Ruiz Michel (Zootechnical Veterinary Physician)
FOURTH PLACE
A-001 Architecture Workshop: Arq. Eduardo Gorozpe Fernandez / Team: Oscar Renucci, Brenda Isabel Pérez, Manuel Carlos, Andrea Patlan, Andrea Valdivia, Isaac Uribe, Elizabeth Martínez, Ana Paula Arnau / Biology and Ethnobotany: Chair of Diplomacy and Heritage of Science (Diego García and Parsifal Islas) / Landscape Design: Jaime Schmidt, Ariet Murià / Structural design: Fernando Calleja, Mauricio Pantoja / Community development: Francisco Ayala, Piero Barandiarán / Water regenerative design specialist: José Antonio Lino / Lighting design: Fobos Lighting Studio (Verónica Martínez, Daniel Delgado Y, Ethel Ortiz) / Installations: Aldana+ Sánchez Ingenieros Arquitectos / Costs: Área vital (Luis Muciño and Gustavo Espitia) / Soil mechanics: David Méndez / Museography: Concepto M / Renders: Jorge Yañez Barranco.
FIFTH PLACE
PAAR Taller (Karla Paola Lopez Carrillo and Carlos Alberto Ríos Limon) / Team: Ilse Karina López Govea, Karen Gricel Osorio Romero, Paulina Estefanía Acevedo Huerta / Collaborators: Marti Gil Bartomeu (Biologist / Landscape Architect), Azahariel Ramírez Garcia (Biologist / Urban Planner), Diego García Rodriguez (Architect), Gerardo René Olivo Montaño (Architect / Urban Planner).
