Park Tower

Our project was awarded Finalist in a competition for a Residential Tower on the desertic city of Juárez, México. The project represents an important proposal for an architectural milestone, as the first large-scale residential tower in the city.

Located at the side of one of the largest and greenest areas on Juarez, a prominent feature in a desertic city, our approach was to create a tower that reacts to the park. We embarked on the study of the natural phenomenon of “crown shyness”, a behavior in which trees respect each other’s space in the canopy of the forest. Under this premise, we created the layout for the building, bringing a natural and geometrical force that shapes the forest into our proposal.

The structural grid of parallel columns reacts to the intensity of the light, with more frequent columns in the sun-exposed areas, and space for the view of the neighboring green space. This dance of light and concrete becomes a prominent feature of the building, and creates a crown at the top-most floor, shining over the city skyline.