Basáltica emerges as an architectural landmark in the heart of Puebla, a low-rise, high-density residential development that challenges the traditional concept of urban housing. With an avant-garde design and a deep connection with nature, this project not only offers 336 apartments, but also a lifestyle that combines comfort, sustainability, and a unique architectural identity.
Mazul is the name given to the residential project with fifty villas on the coast. The project was designed by the architectural firm Revolution and is located in Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca. In addition to the villas, the site also houses a clubhouse with a swimming pool, terrace, restaurant, bar, a beach club and many lush green areas.
This tower, according to the projections visualized since 2021, will be characterized by its pyramidal shape and skyline, which will also make it a unique building in Puebla.
In an exclusive interview with Forbes en Español, Andrés Bustamante, founder of Revolution studio and architect behind Torre Andeza, noted that the shape and geometry applied to the project’s design “are designed to shift the building 45 degrees from the sidewalk to the top, 1.5 degrees per level, to achieve the best views of the city and the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes, without limiting the views of neighboring buildings or the passage of sunlight to the pedestrian level.”
The skyscraper is planned to include apartments, a hotel, a coworking space, a shopping plaza with shops, and restaurants with terraces. The master plan calls for the building to have 37 floors, four basements, and 900 parking spaces.
At the conferences of the fifth edition of Encuentro Helvex—held at the Helvex Lab “Fábrica Creativa” in Mexico City and attended by more than 1,500 people from Mexico and Latin America—the career of architect Bernardo Gómez Pimienta and the talent of Andrés Bustamante Arrieta were recognized for being a promising young artist in Mexican architecture.
Date: Real Estate Market and Lifestyle · 23 oct. 2022
At the Helvex 2022 Meeting, which was attended digitally and live by 1,500 design and architecture enthusiasts, architects Bernardo Gómez Pimienta and Andrés Bustamante Arrieta were recognized for their careers and for being “promising young artists,” respectively, in Mexican architecture.
At the Helvex 2022 Meeting, which was attended digitally and live by 1,500 design and architecture enthusiasts, architects Bernardo Gómez Pimienta and Andrés Bustamante Arrieta were recognized for their careers and for being “promising young artists,” respectively, in Mexican architecture.
Architects Bernardo Gómez Pimienta and Andrés Bustamante Arrieta received recognition for their career and as a “young promise” in Mexican architecture, respectively, within the framework of conferences at the fifth edition of Encuentro Helvex, held at the facilities of Helvex Lab “Fábrica Creativa,” which this year brought together the participation of more than 1,500 people from Mexico and Latin America.
We are announcing the Dezeen Awards 2021 shortlists this week. Here are the 61 buildings shortlisted in the 12 architecture project categories. All shortlisted architecture projects are listed below, each with a link to a dedicated page on the Dezeen Awards website, where you can find an image and more information about the project.
Mexico is the Latin American country with the most nominations on the shortlist for the 2021 World Architecture Festival awards, which will bring together the best in the field in Lisbon in December to select winners in more than 30 categories.
Mexico is the Latin American country with the most nominations on the shortlist for the 2021 World Architecture Festival awards, which will bring together the best in the field in Lisbon in December to select winners in more than 30 categories.
Mazul Beachfront Villas are a collection of holiday homes with coloured concrete facades designed to match their sandy surrounds on the coast of Oaxaca in Mexico. The Mazul development was designed by Mexican architecture firm Revolution and features 50 private villas located in the town of Santa Elena El Tule.
Mazul Beachfront Villas are a collection of holiday homes with coloured concrete facades designed to match their sandy surrounds on the coast of Oaxaca in Mexico.
Duality is a concept that defines Iceland, the land of Ice and Fire, a place where Volcanos and Glaciers meet, with deep caves and big mountains, long nights and days
Thanks to his Temporary Housing Pavilion for Healthcare Workers project, Andrés Bustamante won first place in the International Design Awards, in the Architecture-Disaster Rapid Deployment Housing category.
Thanks to his Temporary Housing Pavilion for Healthcare Workers project, Andrés Bustamante won first place in the International Design Awards, in the Architecture-Disaster Rapid Deployment Housing category. This award is the first he has received at the international level, a fact that fills him with pride, as it is through this that he has contributed his small part to those who have given their greatest effort over the course of a year: the doctors.
Mazul is a beachfront residential development in Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca. The concept of the project was to create a set of simple and minimal houses that could provide a place for rest, wash, cook and enjoy the virgin landscape of the site, with no luxury elements but the outside nature. The design was inspired by the existing natural stones of the site called Chicharron, which have unique texture and colour characteristics. The project also needed to be very low cost and resistant the extreme weather conditions. A space where the interior and the exterior coexist with one another.
The project proposes a new park and plaza, a gift to the city and its inhabitants at the base of the towers by virtually integrating the boardwalk into the land, we created a curve that opens the space and invites people in, creating a new experience for the retail and restaurants at the base level of the project with big terraces and gardens with trees and fountains that offers shade and fresh air to the visitors and residents
RVTN (founded by current Director Architect Andrés Bustamante Arrieta), not only uses technology and research in every project, but takes in consideration elements that will be key in the future like sustainability, social conscience and emergency architecture.
RVTN (founded by current Director Architect Andrés Bustamante Arrieta), not only uses technology and research in every project, but takes in consideration elements that will be key in the future like sustainability, social conscience and emergency architecture. Revolution has an office in New York City as well as in Mexico City. The firm has been standing out not only for its impeccable style, but also for their philanthropic work and their minimum housing focus. The versatility of the firm allows them to create various projects in different areas like housing, mixed use, commercial spaces, urbanism and resorts in many locations throughout Mexico like Cancún, Coahuila, Puebla, Playa del Carmen and Mexico City, among others.
Frontline COVID-19 workers, working in nursing and medicine, will be able to sleep in clean, isolated spaces near the hospitals where they provide care. The architecture firm Revolution designed temporary housing units for them, each measuring seven square meters. Their goal is to protect healthcare workers, as they have observed that during the emergency, they have been attacked or have resorted to sleeping in places like their cars to avoid infecting their families.
Fecha: Real Estate market & lifestyle · 26 jul. 2020
They measure seven square meters; they have a single bed, bathroom, and closet. The first pavilion will be built at the Central Hospital of the Mexican Red Cross.
The days have been endless since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and in Ecatepec, the hardest-hit municipality in the State of Mexico, with 4,555 infections and 753 deaths as of Tuesday, being a healthcare worker makes it even more difficult. This is what Juan Manuel Piña, head of transportation for the Ecatepec Red Cross, said after explaining that visits to his home are rare due to the long work days associated with the emergency, so sleep is scarce.
In order to prevent people from attacking them during their transfer and to ensure the safety of their families and avoid contagion, medical personnel working at the Red Cross in Ecatepec received 12 modules that make up the so-called Temporary Housing Pavilion for Health Workers.
An eco-friendly temporary housing ward was installed in the Red Cross parking lot in Ecatepec, State of Mexico, to house healthcare workers treating COVID-19 patients, who avoid going home to avoid exposing their families or suffering attacks in public spaces. “The architectural design is intended to be installed in patios or parking lots, as these spaces are often unused during emergencies. It also uses sustainable materials such as certified wood—which has the lowest CO2 impact on construction—and 480 polyaluminum sheets made from more than one million post-consumer Tetra Pak cartons,” reported the architecture firm Revolution.
The project consists of 12 seven-square-meter modules, each with a bedroom, wardrobe, shower, sink, toilets, electric heater, cistern, and natural ventilation. The facilities will feature a structure made of polyaluminum panels, a material obtained from the recycling of post-consumer packaging. These panels are highly durable and act as thermal and acoustic insulation.
In the face of the current health emergency in our country, there is always a way to support. Andrés Bustamante, architect and founder of Revolution, tells us how the Red Cross Temporary Housing Pavilions for Healthcare Personnel project came about and how he envisions the future of architecture under the new normal.
As part of an initiative promoted by the Mexican architecture firm REVOLUTION Arquitectura and the Mexican Red Cross, the Temporary Housing Pavilion for Healthcare Workers was created. This project was designed to protect and safeguard healthcare workers in Mexico.
As part of an initiative driven by the Mexican architecture firm REVOLUTION Arquitectura and the Mexican Red Cross, the Temporary Housing Pavilion for Healthcare Workers was created. This project was designed to protect and shelter healthcare workers in Mexico. This emergency architectural project was carried out on a non-profit basis and has the funding and logistical support of more than 17 companies from six different countries, including Calorex, Comex, Construmaderas, Decathlon, Difer Trade, Ecolana, Helvex, Losifra, Lumin, OCACSA, Ralph Wilson, Saint-Gobain, Spax, and Tetra Pak Mexico.
They measure seven square meters; they have a single bed, bathroom, and wardrobe. The first ward will be built at the Central Hospital of the Mexican Red Cross
They measure seven square meters; they have a single bed, bathroom, and closet. The first ward will be built at the Mexican Red Cross Central Hospital. In approximately one week, frontline workers in the nursing and medical fields fighting the COVID-19 coronavirus will be able to sleep in clean, isolated spaces near the hospitals where they provide care. The architectural firm Revolution designed temporary housing ward units for them, each measuring seven square meters.
In Mexico City an open-source project conceived by studio Revolution contains everything needed to be used as a temporary home by doctors and nurses who are facing the current pandemic on the front line
In Mexico City an open-source project conceived by studio Revolution contains everything needed to be used as a temporary home by doctors and nurses who are facing the current pandemic on the front line. All of us, more or less, have experienced a change in our daily lives during the current health emergency. In this case we are talking about the doctors and nurses who are facing the pandemic in the front line, many of whom, if they do not have a home to spend this time alone, are forced to find temporary accommodation to avoid infecting their loved ones.
In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, many projects have sought to contribute in some way to help different areas of our country. We have seen how designers and creatives from different industries have responded. The implications of experiencing a pandemic are even more complex within the healthcare sector, with the uncapped heroes on the front lines of the virus: doctors, patients, and their families. These institutions and corporations are proposing important ideas and options for the development and innovation of the temporary shelter needed to ensure the well-being of healthcare workers and the families of sick patients.
Healthcare workers in our country endure long workdays every day as they try to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Doctors, who constitute society’s first line of defense, have demonstrated their responsibility by avoiding going home or taking public transportation to avoid exposing their families and the community to possible infection. They have also done so to avoid the constant attacks that have recently been motivated by fear and ignorance among certain sectors of the population.
Architecture has the power to create the world of your dreams through simple executions, distinct worlds that become part of the collective imagination and allow for creative solutions to current problems while also considering future issues.
Temporary Pavilion for Healthcare Workers (TPHW) is a modular temporary housing project created by the Mexican architecture & technology office Revolution in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the support of local and global companies as donors and Franco-Mexican Chamber of Commerce & Industry, National Importers and Exporters of Forest Products Association and National Suppliers of the Wood and Furniture Industry Association as allies.
Temporary Pavilion for Healthcare Workers (TPHW) is a modular temporary housing project created by the Mexican architecture & technology office Revolution in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the support of local and global companies as donors and Franco-Mexican Chamber of Commerce & Industry, National Importers and Exporters of Forest Products Association and National Suppliers of the Wood and Furniture Industry Association as allies.
Mazul is a residential project of fifty beachfront villas on the coast of the community of Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca. The Master Plan is developed on a three-hectare site where fifty lots of approximately four hundred square meters were created. Each lot houses a villa of one hundred and twenty-five built square meters. The architectural program includes a clubhouse with a pool, terrace, restaurant, bar, and a beach club, as well as lush green areas distributed throughout the land with natural pathways and an operational and administrative area.
Mazul is a residential project of fifty beachfront villas on the coast of the community of Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca. The Master Plan is developed on a three-hectare site where fifty lots of approximately four hundred square meters were created. Each lot houses a villa of one hundred and twenty-five built square meters. The architectural program includes a clubhouse with a pool, terrace, restaurant, bar, and beach club, as well as lush green areas
Mazul is a residential project of fifty beachfront villas on the coast of the community of Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca. The master plan is developed on a three-hectare site where fifty lots of approximately four hundred square meters each were created, each housing a one hundred and twenty-five square meter villa. The architectural program includes a clubhouse with a pool, terrace, restaurant-bar, and a beach club, as well as pristine green areas distributed throughout the property, natural paths, and an operational and administrative area.
Localizado en Santa Elena el Tule, una playa paradisíaca del estado de Oaxaca surge Mazul, una serie de villas donde a través de materiales como adobe, concreto entintado y madera, buscan entrelazarse con la vegetación endémica, la topografía y el mar.
The objective of the project was to create a new kind of mix use development in Cancun with an holistic approach to nature, Asian philosophy is very important for the client and must be reflected on buildings, not as religious figures or ornaments, but as an abstraction of the concept, it must reflect the flow of energy through nature, so none of the buildings were allowed to have ninety degrees corners, the architecture must be organic, sustainable and respectful to the natural environment.
The land has an east-west orientation from the front of the property to the back, which helped us organize and distribute the house’s program needs. The area is surrounded by trees, so it was very important for us to be able to create this connection between the interior and exterior, so that the clients could feel nature from inside the house.
The project is located in the Desierto de los Leones Forest in western Mexico City, in an area surrounded by nature within this megalopolis. The land is home to large trees, which create a visual filter toward the road and neighboring buildings in the area. It is a private space isolated from the visual and noise pollution of the city.
The project is located on Paseo de las Palmas Avenue in the west of Mexico City, on an 800-square-meter lot. The lot has an east-west orientation from the front of the property to the back, which helped us organize and distribute the house’s program needs. The area is surrounded by trees, so it was very important for us to be able to create this connection between the interior and exterior, allowing the clients to feel nature from inside the house.
The Black Cabin is a project designed by Revolution Architects and is located at Desierto de los Leones woods, in the west part of Mexico City. The terrain is surrounded by nature within the vast city. “Here we found great amount of trees, allowing a natural visual filter towards the highway and the near constructions. It is a private space, isolated of visual pollution and acoustic disturbance.”
The main objective of the project, was to create a space for our clients and friends that could be ready as soon as possible. The haste of inhabit it in so short notice made us think of a constructive system that could be more efficient without raising the cost and handling the balance planned from the beginning.
The project is located on Paseo de las Palmas Avenue in the west of Mexico City, on an 800-square-meter lot. The lot faces east-west from the front of the property to the back, which helped us organize and distribute the house’s layout. The area is surrounded by trees, so it was very important for us to create this connection between the interior and exterior, allowing the clients to experience nature from within the house.
The Project is located in Avenida Paseo de las Palmas, on the west side of Mexico City, in a 800 sqm land plot. The site has an east-west orientation from the front to the bottom of the property. Such orientation helped us organized and distribute the house needs´ program. The area is surrounded by trees, which allowed us to create a special connection between the interior and the exterior of the house. This allows our clients to experience nature even from the interior of the house.
The The Temporary Housing Pavilion for Healthcare Workers is a non-profit emergency architecture project designed by Revolution with the aim of giving the Mexican Red Cross staff a comfortable and safe space where they can sleep and wash in their own place of work, thus avoiding returns home and exposing their families to the contagion of Covid-19.
Duality is a concept that defines Iceland, the land of Ice and Fire, a place where Volcanos and Glaciers meet, with deep caves and big mountains, long nights and days. Historically humans have always felt marveld about the sky, the stars, night and day, sunrise and sunset, bulding monuments all around the world like pyramids and portals to honored them.
This project is located at Desierto de los Leones woods, in the west part of Mexico City. The terrain is surrounded by nature within the vast city. Here we found great amount of trees, allowing a natural visual filter towards the highway and the near constructions. It is a private space, isolated of visual pollution and acoustic disturbance.
The project is located in the Desierto de los Leones Forest in western Mexico City, in an area surrounded by nature within this megalopolis. The site features large trees, which create a visual filter toward the road and neighboring buildings in the area. It is a private space isolated from the visual and noise pollution of the city.
The Black Cabin is a project designed by Revolution Architects and is located at Desierto de los Leones woods, in the west part of Mexico City. The terrain is surrounded by nature within the vast city. “Here we found great amount of trees, allowing a natural visual filter towards the highway and the near constructions. It is a private space, isolated of visual pollution and acoustic disturbance.”
