1ST PRIZE
[Rodrigo Molina, Mariana Santamaria, Marco Luna, Erick Salvador, Pablo Ziga]
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
TABO for us, is that security feeling we experience when we've arrived home.
This project starts and ends with PEOPLE. So, in this Tabo, furniture goes beyond just activities and becomes the structural foundation for a community center. The basic need spaces (core building) are solid and represent unmovable values (what people care about).
And around those basic values, “who we are” and “what we need” over time, people can begin building this wooden structure. We recognize the important role that local labor will play in this project, so the building is intended to be constructed in an easy, logical manner, reinforcing regional construction techniques with minor additions that decrease its vulnerability to natural disasters, such as double-beams, iron bolts and simple iron reinforcements.
The structure of the building responds to a phased construction process within the assigned budget using local coconut palm wood for all carpentry except the structural columns (hardwood) while recycling materials that have been discarded (in walls and masonry tables).
This 2-story building of around 120m2 NEEDS to go beyond enclosed spaces so furniture physically connects what is outside (community garden, seed library, rain collector or palm tree plantations) with the inside and gives all facades a signature character through openness (Community kitchen, open market, main hall and an office).
But HOW we approach this process is also quantum.
This project starts and ends with PEOPLE. So, in this Tabo, furniture goes beyond just activities and becomes the structural foundation for a community center. The basic need spaces (core building) are solid and represent unmovable values (what people care about).
And around those basic values, “who we are” and “what we need” over time, people can begin building this wooden structure. We recognize the important role that local labor will play in this project, so the building is intended to be constructed in an easy, logical manner, reinforcing regional construction techniques with minor additions that decrease its vulnerability to natural disasters, such as double-beams, iron bolts and simple iron reinforcements.
The structure of the building responds to a phased construction process within the assigned budget using local coconut palm wood for all carpentry except the structural columns (hardwood) while recycling materials that have been discarded (in walls and masonry tables).
This 2-story building of around 120m2 NEEDS to go beyond enclosed spaces so furniture physically connects what is outside (community garden, seed library, rain collector or palm tree plantations) with the inside and gives all facades a signature character through openness (Community kitchen, open market, main hall and an office).
But HOW we approach this process is also quantum.
Resilience is not about opposing resistance neither is it about reaching any specific end.
Because each one of these stages is a complete Tabo. Meaningful and purposeful for its people every step of the way.
People make the architecture.
And people gather, scatter and reunite again.
So, we can leave a solid piece of OUR TABO on purpose to help us get back up again.
Faster, more connected and more resourceful.
To perhaps… get back that safety feeling.
When we smell the essence of what we are familiar with. Asking family how their day was. Immersing back into our routines and being next to the ones we love.
Because each one of these stages is a complete Tabo. Meaningful and purposeful for its people every step of the way.
People make the architecture.
And people gather, scatter and reunite again.
So, we can leave a solid piece of OUR TABO on purpose to help us get back up again.
Faster, more connected and more resourceful.
To perhaps… get back that safety feeling.
When we smell the essence of what we are familiar with. Asking family how their day was. Immersing back into our routines and being next to the ones we love.
