Detail of the project ed. 2020

DELLEKAMP/SCHLEICH+AGENDARQ – SAN­TU­ARIO DEL SENOR DE TULA

Design­er	Derek Dellekamp/Jachen Schle­ich + Cami­lo Restrepo
Loca­tion	Cobar­ru­bias 102, 62900, Jojut­la de Juárez, Morelos
Design Team	Dellekamp/Schleich: Derek Dellekamp, Jachen Schle­ich, Fran­cis­co Eduar­do Fran­co Ramírez, Jose Manuel Estra­da, Gus­ta­vo Hernán­dez, Eliz­a­beth Moli­na, Sana Fri­ni, Samuele Xom­pero, San­ti­a­go Sit­ten, Mar­i­ana Víquez AGEN­dA: Cami­lo Restre­po Ochoa, Mar­i­ana Mejía, Cami­lo Toro, Hellen Winter
Year	2020
Pho­to credits	All files San­dra Pereznieto

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Project descrip­tion

On Sep­tem­ber 19, 2017, exact­ly 32 years after the earth­quake that dev­as­tat­ed Mex­i­co in 1985, the tragedy was repeat­ed, just a few hours after the drill that com­mem­o­rat­ed this anniver­sary, Mex­i­co suf­fered anoth­er earth­quake that destroyed or ren­dered unin­hab­it­able pub­lic build­ings and more than 100,000 homes. 

Archi­tects in Mex­i­co City focused on a joint ini­tia­tive called Recon­stru­ir Méx­i­co (Rebuild Mex­i­co); hun­dreds of archi­tects and urban plan­ners came togeth­er and tack­led the prob­lems from var­i­ous fronts. Among the archi­tects com­mit­ted to this joint effort were Derek Dellekamp and his office (Dellekamp Arqui­tec­tos), togeth­er with AGEN­dA agen­cia de arqui­tec­tura, led by Colombia’s Cami­lo Restre­po Ochoa, who soon joined in through the Pien­za Sostenible pro­gram, which focused on design and fundrais­ing for rur­al hous­ing affect­ed by the earthquake. 

In the case of Jojut­la, in the state of More­los, hous­ing pro­grams were imme­di­ate­ly launched. There­fore Car­los Zedil­lo, with his com­pre­hen­sive vision of urban plan­ning and repair­ing both the social fab­ric and pub­lic space, decid­ed to focus INFON­AV­IT’s efforts on draw­ing up a mas­ter plan for this city’s recon­struc­tion. Our team was in charge of the recon­struc­tion of the San­tu­ario del Señor de Tula (a place of wor­ship with a list­ed sta­tus and more than five cen­turies of his­to­ry) and Ranchería El Higuerón (a com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter con­sist­ing of a park-library with a pro­gram for cul­tur­al and admin­is­tra­tion work­shops and com­mu­ni­ty activ­i­ties). These two projects, although dif­fer­ent in their for­mal con­cep­tion, respond to sim­i­lar ideas, a result of con­ver­sa­tions between the two stu­dios in charge, and the exchanges of their respec­tive ideas.

The urgency of the sit­u­a­tion required the use of afford­able and eas­i­ly acces­si­ble mate­ri­als and labor, hence the deci­sion to use con­crete for both projects. Also, under­stand­ing the social and cli­mat­ic con­text led us to think about spa­tial typolo­gies and mod­els accord­ing to the place and its opportunities. 

Ulti­mate­ly both projects seek to build thresh­old spaces, of unde­fined lim­its, with­out clear­ly dis­tin­guish­ing between inte­ri­or or exte­ri­or, and in this ambi­gu­i­ty they can be used in var­i­ous ways, but above all they can become a home for everyone.

Illus­tra­tive project report
Down­load report

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Tech­ni­cal drawings

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