Sector 02 Irrigation Module Places of work / 3ME Arquitectura
- Space:
723 m²
12 months:
2019
Producers: Interceramic, NOVACERMAIC
Textual content description supplied by the architects. Positioned within the Lerma River basin within the Salvatierra area of Guanajuato, traditionally, it has fostered the settlement of agricultural producers and thus, the battle over water management in numerous durations: pre-Hispanic, viceregal, and Porfiriato. Having a document of the present use of pre-Columbian irrigation channels. Lastly, the Nationwide Water Fee (CNA) decentralizes irrigation methods, that are handed over for operation to peasant organizations; such is the case of the Affiliation of Agricultural Producers of the Irrigation Module in Salvatierra.
This affiliation is made up of 6,100 customers; its space of affect covers an space of 16,000 hectares with 70 communities; the place greater than 32 merchandise are cultivated together with grains (corn, beans, wheat), greens, tubers, and fruits.
To develop the venture, and provides it character and worth the significance of this group, it was important to grasp by historic reminiscence, the size at which these actions have been developed and proceed to develop and their significance within the area at a cultural stage. Thus figuring out a scheme of life and structure the place the topic, the rule, and the sort of their context kind a mechanism within the seek for an concept, by which all three are vital at a cultural, financial, organizational, ecological, and tectonic stage.
“The kind is known as that which constitutes the true nature of the work” (Moneo Rafael, “On Typology”, Oppositions No. 13. New York, 1978). Primarily based on this premise, the references of regional agricultural structure have been contemplated for the design; the morphologies of haciendas, convents, and grain storage silos have been studied, each references of up to date structure that remind us of these of the territory and take up typologies that would offer scale, cultural significance, and reference to the surroundings.
On this manner, a constructing of a scale typical of agricultural nature was proposed with a primary entrance framed by two pyramid-shaped our bodies of huge dimension, rotated in plan, which signify the traditional grain storage silos scattered all through the nation, giving the constructing that agricultural scale and historic significance. A plaza and a patio configure the ensemble and generate a walkway that provides entry to the totally different volumes which can be situated on a stone platform. Thus, the varied programmatic actions are carried out in areas with totally different heights and are distributed across the patio, which ends with a physique of water.
For its development, the labor capability of the area was thought of, utilizing recovered stones from the encompassing fields, conventional purple terracotta bricks, and uncooked uncovered concrete, whereas the bricks that line the interiors have been plastered and the flooring have been product of ceramic. As soon as in operation, the Module drives the area’s economic system and values; actions that give hope and certainty of harvests; in addition to producing jobs and agricultural merchandise, strengthening curiosity within the land, and reaffirming id and rootedness that consciously inhibit migration.
