TYPE: PUBLIC PLAZA
LOCATION: MÉRIDA YUCATÁN, MEXICO
STATUS: CONCEPT
SIZE: 4,400M2 – YEAR: 2019
As part of a commission for the municipality of Sac Chich, it was asked to remake the open public space where the local indigenous people celebrate a festival every year through an endemic circular installation (see below) for their events.
These structures installed and dismantled every February are used for bullfights, concerts, processions, dances and other activities related to the festivities of the communities.
The site is iconic in relation to its context due to its triangular shape of 159x118x78m. For the open space, a long colonnade adjacent to a circular open space to house the ‘tablados’ is used to articulate the different programs. The repetition of an element such as the column in exact intervals creates order, and order is a quality of an architecture that contributes to compositional harmony, symmetry and sequential space. These linearly repeated ratios of proportional qualities make up a colonnade. Since antiquity, the use of colonnades have been a model to articulate openness. These sets of long rows of columns have been an instrument to visually obfuscate open or closed space by incorporating such an archetype into thee design. The focus of this project is to improve the livelihood to the people of Sac Chich.