Glorieta Insurgentes Tower by Yoram Cimet and Sholem Cimet is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Silver A' Design Award in Construction and Real Estate Projects Design Competition Category.
SilverReal Estate· 2021
Glorieta Insurgentes Tower
by Yoram Cimet and Sholem Cimet
Client: CIMET Arquitectos
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Real Estate Category
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About Glorieta Insurgentes Tower
Glorieta Insurgentes is an office tower located on a roundabout that connects two major avenues in Mexico City. The tower rises 120 meters over 26 levels above ground and offers a total area of 60,000 square meters. The semicircular form follows the shape of the roundabout. Facilities include a triple height lobby, 18 office floors, a double height multipurpose hall for 800 people with retractable bleachers, and two roof gardens. Double glazed low emissivity curtain walls, solar panels and automated lighting and shading systems reduce energy and water use.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
Glorieta Insurgentes Tower is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Glorieta Insurgentes Tower is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Glorieta Insurgentes Tower is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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We design and develop transformative architectural projects that revitalize urban spaces. Our vertically integrated approach encompasses design, construction, and property management, creating sustainable buildings that achieve LEED certification while delivering exceptional spatial experiences and energy efficiency.
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Your innovative approach to sustainable design in Glorieta Insurgentes Tower achieved remarkable energy efficiency - could you elaborate on how the double-glazed triple layer low-E curtain wall system contributes to the 57.9% energy savings while maximizing natural light?
It helps save energy in two ways: first, by thermally insulating the building’s interior, allowing for the strategic use of air conditioning on each floor and space; second, by making lighting control more efficient, using artificial light only when absolutely necessary.
The transformation of Glorieta Insurgentes Tower from an abandoned earthquake-damaged site to a vibrant urban hub is fascinating - how did the "NO LIMITS" graffiti inspire your vision for urban rescue and revitalization of this crucial intersection in Mexico City?
A project should never impose itself on its context; it should aim to harmonize and resonate with it. It is through these gestures of openness that users have fully embraced this tower.
The integration of an 800-person multipurpose hall within Glorieta Insurgentes Tower is an intriguing architectural choice - what drove the decision to incorporate this substantial communal space on the 8th floor, and how does it enhance the building's role in the community?
This decision brings dynamism to the project, creating communal spaces that draw people into the heart of the tower, rather than limiting social interaction to the ground floor and leaving the other 18 levels isolated from their surroundings.
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- Unique Properties
- The project is comprised of an office tower with 26 levels above ground, located in a roundabout that connects two important avenues of the city. The tower consists of 3 below grade parking, a triple height grand lobby, 7 above grade parking, 18 office floors with a PH, toping with a heliport as well as a double height multipurpose auditorium and 2 roof gardens. This tower was built under the standards of the LEED Platinum Certification, making it one of the most sustainable building in Mexico.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The Tower has a total area of 60,000 sqm totaling 120 meters in height. The floor plan has a 91% area efficiency with 360 degree views and natural light articulated by a service core. Include an 800 people double height multi purpose hall with retractile bleachers in the 8th floor and roof gardens. The structural solution is seemingly simple with mega columns comprising 27,500 m3 of concrete, 6,700 tones of structural steel and 2,300 tones of rebar complemented with the semicircular shape.
- Tags
- building, high-rise, sustainable, technology, smart building, tower, LEED, Offices, efficiency, develop
- Production Technology
- The facades of the tower are a double glazed triple layer low E curtain wall getting a greater natural light gain and reducing the thermal gain having 20% of its area in vegetated rooftop gardens. The tower is an intelligent building with 57.9% energy and water savings, with a lighting and shading system with occupancy detection, use of daylight, dimming and programming throughout the building taking into account indoor, outdoor and orientation conditions and the use of roof solar panels.
- Design Challenge
- Glorieta Insurgentes Tower project was designed based on insertion as an urban acupuncture needle in one of the nerve points of the city, becoming a spearhead in the rescue of the area named Glorieta Insurgentes roundabout. Our development helped to transform and improve this area changed by the intervention and construction of our project. We achieved an international high standard of building bringing together architecture and technology with local talent up to international standards.
- Research
- The spatial experience through careful architectural design and sustainability are the key concerns throughout the creative process. We work hand in hand with local and foreign experts to achieve solutions for urban development, that include every part of the building lifecycle from construction to operation. The project had to be conceived to use passives and active systems, that reduce energy together with automated systems to reduce the towers footprint and have a positive impact on the city.
- Inspiration
- The design concept for the development spurred from the phrase NO LIMITS written in a graffiti in the abandoned building that used to stand for 25 years since the earthquake in the site, which precisely describes our feeling as architects when approaching the project with the vision to foresee an urban rescue, through a project that revitalized the whole space.
Like an acupuncture needle our intervention changed the place bringing energy and fortunately provoking the government to develop an urban plan to reform the roundabout and the plaza breathing new life to a neglected but very important part of the city. - Project Duration
- The project started in May 2014 and finished in Abril 2018 in Mexico City, Mexico.
- Operation Flow
- Population of 3,000 employees and 500 visitors daily
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to CIMET Arquitectos, 2018
- Team Members
- Lead Architect: Yoram Cimet Pasol
Lead Architect: Sholem Cimet Ralsky
Structural Engineer: Carlos Tapia - Image Credits
- Main Image #1: Luis Gallardo, Glorieta Insurgentes Tower, 2018.
Optional Image #1: Luis Gallardo, Glorieta Insurgentes Tower, 2018.
Optional Image #2: Luis Gallardo, Glorieta Insurgentes Tower, 2018.
Optional Image #3: Luis Gallardo, Glorieta Insurgentes Tower, 2018.
Optional Image #4: Luis Gallardo, Glorieta Insurgentes Tower, 2018.
Optional Image #5: Luis Gallardo, Glorieta Insurgentes Tower, 2018.
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