Produced by: Iñaki Echeverria
Directed by: Carlos Adalid/Nebula Films
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12.16.11 Iñaki Echeverria interview — LECTURES
por Sandra Reyes
La reconstrucción del paisaje urbano, la arquitectura, el reciclaje y el estudio solar como directrices del diseño arquitectónico son sólo algunos de los elementos conceptuales en el trabajo del arquitecto y paisajista Iñaki Echeverría (México, 1982). Su línea de producción está enfocada en las problemáticas ambientales y la arquitectura sostenible. Es el caso de uno de sus más recientes proyectos: El Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco, que propone la rehabilitación del espacio público, infraestructura y dotación de espacios verdes en la región oriente del Estado de México.
¿Por qué decidiste dedicarte a la arquitectura?
De inicio fue por instinto… era eso o cocina. despues entender a la ciudad como paisaje, descubrir la maravilla del acto de construir, la arquitectura como una filosofia de la historia y su capacidad de influir mas alla del mundo de lo concreto a traves de la forma me enamoraron.
12.2.11 Papalote Verde Landscape Proposal Unveiled — PROJECTS
Coordination LandscapeArch Fabiola Vargas, Project: LandscapeArch Yazmin AlarcónOmaris Zúñiga, Paola González, Arch: Janisse de la Rosa
Landscape design is done by managing native vegetation to create three thematic areas: Hortus deserta, Hortus essentia and Foresta.
Native species were selected with the purpose of recognizing their biological value, as part of the identity of typical Monterrey landscapes. These species have adapted to the site’s natural and weather conditions and require low maintenance and irrigation, being ideal for urban reforestation.
Integrated by two large zones, the Access Patio, and the Green Roofs and Gardens, this areas cover the project and integrate to the adjoining landscape. The access patio is the space located between the two existing structures and where the main access will be located. On the other hand, the green roofs have been conceived as the fifth facade of the project, and will help integrate the new construction to the park.
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12.2.11 Christopher Dell conference at the office of Inaki Echeverria Friday, November 25,2011 6pm — BLOG
Christopher Dell will give a conference at the office of Inaki Echeverria Friday, November 25,2011, theoretical knowledge, German musician and urbanist
Christopher Dell (1965), known theorist, musician and German urban planner, will give a talk at the offices of the architect Iñaki Echeverria, the talk offer is titled “The Cage Composition Class and The Transparent Grid”
Christopher Dell studied philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Music and Composition at the Hilversum Conservatory in Rotterdam and later received a scholarship to attend Berklee School of Music in Boston where he graduated with honors. He continued his studies in composition with different teachers in Germany and earned a Masters in Human Resources and Organizational Development at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern.
He was Professor of Theory of Architecture at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin and later taught urban design theory HafenCity University in Hamburg. He has been guest lecturer at several universities as the AA in London, the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Columbia University in New York and the Academie for Bouwkunst Arnhem.
Dell has been honored with numerous awards in the field of music, literature and art in general, is considered one of the first vibraphonist worldwide and along with bassist and drummer Christian Ramond Felix Astor formed the jazz group DRA.
11.2.11 Cultural Ecologies: Texcoco Lake Ecological Park, at AEDES Gallery Berlin — PROJECTS
Photos by: Erik Jan Ouwerkerk
Iñaki Echeverria, one of Mexico’s emerging architects and landscape urbanists, has been invited to exhibit his work at the prestigious Aedes Architektur Forum in Berlin. For more than 25 years Aedes has successfully set the agenda in the domestic and international discourse on architecture and urban culture with its unparalleled program of exhibitions, symposia, lecture series and publications.
With more than 350 exhibitions and catalogs of notorious architects, including current Pritzker-Award winners such as Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, Peter Zumthor, Kazuyo Sejima, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas, among others, Aedes has established a point of reference in the cultural sphere of Berlin and the architecture world. Iñaki Echeverria will become the first Mexican firm invited to present its work in this renowned Forum.
10.31.11 Children’s Museum “Papalote Verde Monterrey” — PROJECTS
Renderings Axel Fridman
An underground museum that integrates the latest green technologies into the building and aims for a user-generated experience
Scheduled to open in winter 2012, The Papalote Verde Children’s Museum, located in Monterrey, Mexico will be an interactive and innovative museum that integrates the latest green technology into a bold and radical architecture.
In this project the concept of a ”museum” is addressed from an entirely new perspective, as the building itself becomes part of the learning experience. A museum is usually conceived as series of rooms explaining different subjects and following a rigid sequence. In this case the core subject is present and dealt with throughout the entire museum and understood in different contexts thus enabling the visitor to build his own path.
The project explores two main strategies, one the restoration of existing buildings on site and two, the underground construction of a new building. The underground space reduces impact on the environment to a minimum and avoids conflict with the functioning of Parque Fundidora by disappearing inside the landscape. The restoration of two exiting industrial structures of the old Fundidora steel mill helps introduce a new program into an under-used space and improve its current condition.
It is expected to become Mexico’s first LEED Platinum certificate.
10.31.11 Kristin Feireiss: From Transit Spaces to Living Spaces — BLOG
Given their vast differences of scale and function, what do a beach house for two writers, a children’s museum, and the planned world’s largest ecological park have to do with one another? All were conceived and planned by the visionary Mexican architect Iñaki Echeverria, with his passion for creating livable environments for a variety of populations, always in consonance with nature and in ways which protect it.
Initially known only in Mexico for his residences and apartment houses, each integrated harmoniously into the landscape and incorporating space and circulation as components of the design that transform transitional spaces into living spaces, this bold advocate of ecological principles achieved attention and recognition far beyond the borders of his native country through his strategy and design for the Texcoco Lake Ecological Park, the world’s largest urban park, set at the edge of Mexico City, which occupies an area of 143 million square meters.
Iñaki Echeverria has endowed Texcoco Lake and its surroundings – which had been forgotten for more than 30 years – with a new cutting edge purpose: the most important “green zone” in the valley’s infrastructure, the ecopark will make an essential contribution to improving the regional climate while serving as a recreational space for inhabitants of the metropolis as well as visitors from around the world.
The concept – based on the interrelationship and integration of a range of functions, and involving wetlands, agriculture, aquatic sports, local recreational, sports, and leisure activities, promenades, and small thematic museums – is referred to by Iñaki Echeverria as “Cultural Ecology.” This term also applies to his children’s museum Papalote Verde Monterrey, currently in progress, and the recipient in 2012 of the first LEED Platinum Certificate, awarded in Mexico.
With this relatively small museum, the Mexican architect already demonstrated his innovative abilities in striking ways. If his visionary design for the Texcoco Lake Park –with its social and ecological ambitions – comes to fruition in the near future, Mexico will become exemplary for comparable if not directly similar projects around the globe.
I sincerely wish Iñaki Echeverria and his homeland Mexico every success with this undertaking.
Kristin Feireiss
Oct 2011
9.15.11 INAKI ECHEVERRIA INVITED TO LECTURE AT THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT AT UNAM — LECTURES
LA LOGICA DE UN JARDINERO: PROCESOS DE DISEÑO DE BASE A PUNTA EN EL PARQUE ECOLOGICO LAGO DE TEXCOCO
INTRODUCCIÓN
En el año 2050 más de 30 ciudades rebasarán los 10,000,000 de habitantes por lo que serán consideradas Megaciudades. Solo tres de estas se ubicarán dentro del denominado primer mundo. El resto requerirán paradigmas viables como referente. En este contexto la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México se vuelve una invaluable experiencia, por sus aciertos y equivocaciones, de como habitar y manejar la mega ciudad. En este contexto también, la viabilidad de la mega ciudad se transforma en la viabilidad de la idea de ciudad.
Como un caso de estudio en el creciente discurso del futuro del urbanismo es difícil encontrar un ejemplo mas importante, con relación a las consecuencias de su Hiper-crecimiento en tiempos recientes, que el de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México. El tamaño y la complejidad de la ZMVM demuestran que el “futuro de lo urbano” debe aventurarse mas allá de las convenciones actuales sobre métodos de diseño y de práctica profesional.
La arquitectura en un sentido tradicional no puede hacer frente a esta condición. Las estrategias de Plan Maestro resultan impotentes para aprehender la complejidad urbana en las ciudades post-industriales del siglo XXI. Resulta indispensable operar con nuevos paradigmas: estrategias abiertas al cambio en el tiempo y capaces de reaccionar a la estructura discontinua de la ciudad de hoy.
8.4.11 Collaboration between BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin and ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory — BLOG
Aedes and the BMW Guggenheim Lab share a common interest in the communication of architecture and urban design, and its ethical, cultural and social dimensions. Aedes looks forward to this exciting and inspiring initiative, and to collaborating with its new neighbour during its stay in Berlin at Pfefferberg in 2012.
The BMW Guggenheim Lab is an ambitious six-year, nine-city initiative devoted to the exploration of challenges and opportunities facing today’s cities. As a combination of think
tank, public forum and community centre, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will offer nearly three months of free programmes that address present urban living conditions through the theme ‘Confronting Comfort’. As a leading international cultural institution, the Guggenheim’s involvement underscores the relevance of ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory’s mission. Aedes highly appreciates the Guggenheim and BMW for their commitment to this significant research project, and is glad to contribute with its partners and associated networks.
The ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory is a unique cultural and educational tool in the contemporary urban discourse. Building upon three decades of expertise in the communication of architecture culture – through exhibiting and publishing internationally acclaimed and pioneering architects and urban planners – Aedes established, in 2009, an additional urban research and workshop programme entitled ANCB Metropolitan Laboratory. In collaboration with leading universities from around the world, ANCB offers a common platform for a continuous interdisciplinary workshop programme for students and practitioners. It provides a publically accessible experimental environment in which students, researchers and practitioners from architecture, urban planning and related disciplines come together with the industry, governance and the public to understand and to tackle the key issues facing our globalized urban environments. Through its programme of workshops, discussions and exhibitions, ANCB challenges architecture to become the cultural communicator for the future city.
ANCB will communicate details on the opening dates of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin and its programme as they are available.