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Biotechnological Park Building by Tatiana Bilbao

October 2nd, 2009

Mexican architecture firm Tatiana Bilbao have designed a university

building for Sinaloa, Mexico, inspired by a tree.
Called Biotechnological Park Building, the six-storey sructure will house
academic study and research into new technologies in the field of
agriculture.

The project will cover 8000 square metres of the Culiacán campus of the
Tecnológico de Monterrey, the largest private university in Mexico.
Utilising glass walls and patterned mesh, the design features intersecting
rectangles that appear to be stacked on top of one another.

The architects conceived the building as a growing tree.

University teaching will take place in the lower floors of the building
(the ‘roots’) while the business programs will be contained in the upper
floors (the ‘branches’).

More from the architects:

BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PARK BUILDING

Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Culiacán, one of the campus of the largest

national private university system in Mexico, commissioned us to design a
new biotechnological park building, that could work as link between
academic and business environments in the state of Sinaloa.

This mexican state stands out for its agricultural production, because of
this, the university wanted a building that could bring together academic
research and student work with the development of new technologies in
professional life, giving space to corporations.
Tatiana Bilbao S.C. designed this building considering both academic and
professional life as a growing tree.

All the program related to the university is located in the building

“roots” while professional program grows on the top of it.
Following the requirements of such a facility, we translated the program
into open geometric spaces.

Each of the levels works itself technological and aesthetically with an

specific sustainable system.
In the end each part “produces” something to keep the building working by
itself.

CONSTRUCTION 8000 sq.meters

CLIENT ITESM-Sinaloa
DESIGN YEAR 2008-2009
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT TATIANA BILBAO SC
PRICIPAL IN CHARGE TATIANA BILBAO SPAMER
PROJECT LEADERS LUDWIG GODEFROY, FRANCISCO SOLORZANO
PROJECT TEAM LUIS SOL, JUAN PABLO BENLLIURE
3D MASSING AR3D (MIGUEL ANGEL FLORES) LANDSCAPE TOA (EMILIANO GARCIA,
CLAUDIA RODRIGUEZ)
RENDERINGS AR3D, JUAN PABLO BENLLIURE MODEL JUAN PABLO BENLLIURE, FRANCISCO
SOLORZANO
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER IEESA, JAVIER RIBE LEED AP EA, JORGE LOPEZ DE OBESO
TATIANA BILBAO S.C.

Tatiana Bilbao S.C. was founded in 2004 by mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao
Spamer.

This multidisciplinary studio has architecture as its main practice with

projects in Mexico and various countries around the world.
In addition, the office constantly organizes different exhibitions and
programs, therefore promoting contemporary culture.

The office develops architecture covering a wide range of typologies, being

the main examples: a house for the artist Gabriel Orozco in the pacific
ocean, a 1388 m2 gated community house in Ordos (China), a Botanical Garden
in Culiacan or the Tangassi funeral home in San Luis Potosi, an Exhibition
Room in Jinhua Architectural Park and the Mexican Pavilion for the Expo
Zaragoza 2008.
In 1999 Tatiana Bilbao co-founds the Office Laboratorio de la Ciudad de
Mexico S.C.(LCM).

Since 2004 she has been a visiting professor in Universities such as

Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and Universidad Andres Bello in
Santiago de Chile.
In 2007 Tatiana Bilbao was recognized by Design Vanguard Prize for being
one of the 10 more influential young practices of the world.
–

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