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Nestlé Laboratory by Rojkind Arquitectos
A new building for Nestlé by Rojkind Arquitectos. After their impressive Chocolate Museum, they got the commission to design a new facility on the city of Querétaro, that includes laboratories, offices, and auditorium and a tasting area.
One of the design constraints came from the fact that the center of Querétaro was declared as World Heritage by the UNESCO on 1996. So, the new building was required to have a portico with arches. Rojkind faced this by re-interpreting both the portico and the arches, by excavating a series of intersected spheres from orthogonal buildings, excavations which repeated conform an open and continuous space.
At first view the result of these complex shapes would have required digital fabrication, but a simple system of semi spherical domes made out of steel arches and rings allowed for an easy construction with local workers.
Application Group Laboratory, Querétaro, Mexico, by Rojkind Arquitectos, for Nestlé
via: Arch Daily
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
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April 15th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Wow - if I got to work there maybe I wouldn’t hate my job so much…
on second thought - probably not - I would just stand outside and admire!
April 16th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
How grateful they must be for the world heritage requirements. What would these gray boxes be without them?