Rojkind Arquitectos have completed the Nestlé building in Queretaro. The facility includes laboratories, offices, and auditorium and a tasting area. The laboratory comprises cubic volumes with intersecting domes cut from underneath. The exterior is clad in metallic, reflective glass while the interiors are painted in bright colours.
As the center of Queretaro was declared as World Heritage by UNESCO on 1996, the architect faced a new contraints that required the building 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.
Project details:
Principal in Charge: Michel Rojkind
Project Leaders: Agustín Pereyra, Paulina Goycoolea
Project Team: Moritz Melchert, Tere Levy, Isaac Smeke, Tomas Kristof, Francisco Gordillo, Andrés Altesor, Juan Pablo Espinosa
Program: Laboratories, Offices, Auditorium, Tasting area
Client: NESTLÉ
Nestlé Supervision: Flavio Guerrero, Cristian Moreno
Contractor: SLCI Engineer Jose Solis
Facade Engineering: VYCISA [Juan Pablo Casillas, Cybelle Hernandez]
Structural Engineering: Juan Felipe Heredia
M.E.P.: Quantum Design
Furniture: Esrawe Diseño / Arne Quinze
Carpets: Interface
Constructed Area: 700 sqm
Design Year: 2007
Construction Year: 2009
3D Massing: Juan Carlos Vidals
Landscape: Rojkind Arquitectos
Photography © by Paúl Rivera and Iwan Baan
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