Falcon Headquarters Text

Falcon Headquaters I

Rojkind Arquitectos

San Angel, Mexico

2003

Michel Rojkind

Michel Rojkind is the founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos and a representative of a Mexican generation of architects transforming the country. His use of colour in architecture strives to transform the space around it.
He uses colour to give strength to a building by removing all familiar features to produce an entirely different environment. An atmosphere enriched by the colours.

Falcon Headquarters

Falcon headquarters are found at the coronary heart of the standard, and largely residential, neighbourhood of San Ángel in the southern quadrant of Mexico City. This historic area is identified for its colonial architecture, wonderful gardens, minimal buildings and cobblestone streets.

Falcón, a supplier of medical products and instruments experienced outgrown its preceding space and was in want of added office region as properly as area for a showroom and employee features.

In Falcón I the main house of a walled-in existing residential complex was completely renovated and became a yellow glass box floating in the garden with interstitial landscaping behind its facade and strategically framed views to the outside. By the protection of its green sights, visible relationship among interior and exterior was emphasised.

Layer of yellow panels creates a shade inside the space, plus they develop a comfortable atmosphere for clients and employees. The warmth of yellow is sensibly used. There is a filling that the surrounding greenery comes into the interior itself, as all perimeter spaces are designed like an yellowy.

Beginning from the quality of the main construction of having a structure of big clear gaps, the interior distribution was liberated and the project was conceptualized as a crystal box floating in the garden. Concentrating on the relationship between the interior space and the outside, the crystal skin was floated before the solid perimeter to create a filter among this polarity of spaces.
Subsequently, the relation among these was carefully edited seeking the microworlds that represent the fractions, or fragments, the branches, the stones, or only a cloud crossing the sky. The translucid material, a series of straws encapsulated between two crystals, creates a virtual sequence of exterior spaces, and colours the interior with warm yellow light that contrast with the unit painted in tones in grey and creates veils of colour and reflections that transform or disappear in relation to the position in which is observed.
The perforations are a response to the search of editing the views losing the gravity that exists in the traditional windows, to observe the outside mysteriously cut and illuminated, apparently accidental that is capable of challenging the gravity, as looking through the branches of a tree. In this manner both skins are perforated as in being unfolded, using this metaphor as a relationship of the ideal link among the business and their clients.