WIT Apartments

Guadalajara, Mexico

Photo © Jorge Taboada

Entrance

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Front Desk

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Lobby

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Front façade

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Balcony

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Rear façade

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Roof top

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Roof top

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Roof-top

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Roof-top

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Collective area

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Collective area

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Collective area

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Collective area

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Corridors

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Apartment Interior (glass bricks detail)

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Apartment Interior

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Façade trees

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Façades

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Cross section

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Cross section

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Level 01

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Roof top

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Apartment Buildings

Architects: LEAP Laboratorio en Arquitectura Progresiva

Location: Justo Sierra 2135, Guadalajara, Mexico
Year: 2021
Client: Desarrolladora Altopunto
Team: Heriberto Hernandez, Raul Juarez, Oscar Gonzalez, Jorge Carrillo, Luis Fernando Magaña - MTQ, Fergie Flores Infantes
Perforated metal sheet supply.: LADESA
Market Analisys: Grupo 4S
Construction Documents: MTQ de México

The context influences the new building design impregnating it with the place's effervescent culture. Its inhabitants appropriate the spaces in some way, from private to public, passing through the connecting elements: corridors, stairs, lobbies, and ending at the small square that makes the building's first contact with the sidewalk and the neighborhood. The heart of the program is ample double-height space on Level 1. It is an indoor area with flexible uses where workshops on art, reading, gastronomy, and cultural events, in general, are held. This core program component led to WIT being recognized as one of the most disruptive real estate proposals in Latin America at the ELDI held in Panama City 2018 (being still unbuilt).