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    The Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City integrates a public library with a botanical garden within a 250 meter steel, concrete, and glass structure surrounded by greenery and water. The design was based on four considerations: making the area car-free and green to reduce pollution, transforming the formerly barren site, generating urban ecological regeneration, and reorganizing accessible human knowledge. The botanical garden houses Mexican flora and the library allows users direct contact with nature through reading areas with natural light and ventilation.

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    The Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City integrates a public library with a botanical garden within a 250 meter steel, concrete, and glass structure surrounded by greenery and water. The design was based on four considerations: making the area car-free and green to reduce pollution, transforming the formerly barren site, generating urban ecological regeneration, and reorganizing accessible human knowledge. The botanical garden houses Mexican flora and the library allows users direct contact with nature through reading areas with natural light and ventilation.

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    The Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City integrates a public library with a botanical garden within a 250 meter steel, concrete, and glass structure surrounded by greenery and water. The design was based on four considerations: making the area car-free and green to reduce pollution, transforming the formerly barren site, generating urban ecological regeneration, and reorganizing accessible human knowledge. The botanical garden houses Mexican flora and the library allows users direct contact with nature through reading areas with natural light and ventilation.

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    Vasconcelos Library Alberto Kalach

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    The Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City integrates a public library with a botanical garden within a 250 meter steel, concrete, and glass structure surrounded by greenery and water. The design was based on four considerations: making the area car-free and green to reduce pollution, transforming the formerly barren site, generating urban ecological regeneration, and reorganizing accessible human knowledge. The botanical garden houses Mexican flora and the library allows users direct contact with nature through reading areas with natural light and ventilation.

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    Vasconcelos Library / Alberto Kalach

    Architects: Alberto Kalach Location: Mexico DF, Mexico Competition Team: Alberto Kalach, Gustavo Lipkau, Juan Palomar, Tonatiuh Martnez Project Team: Alberto Kalach, Emmanuel Ramrez, Ignacio del Ro, Tami Tamashiro, Jos Luis Reyes, Hctor Mdica, Bolivar Garrido, Ivan Ramrez, Gabriel Ortiz, Roland Oberhofer, Paola Acevedo, Alejandro Castaeda Client: CONACULTA Botanical Garden: Jos Ma. Buenda, Carlos Murillo, Teobaldo Eguiluz, Jardn Botnico UNAM Structural Engineering: Martnez Romero EMRSA Structural Design: Enrique Arriaga Interior Design: Adriana Len TAX Project Area: 38,091 sqm Project Year: 2004-2007 Photographs: Iigo Bujedo Aguirre The project integrates the public library with a botanical garden. A 250 meter steel, concreteand glass structure surrounded by greenery and water. The design is based in four fundamental considerations :

    1. Mexico City is one of the largest, most polluted and agresive urban environments in the planet. We believe that the planning of public funded buildings should always encourage the expansion of car-free open spaces and greenery 2. The specific area where the project was built was a barren urban landscape 3. The buildings and gardens generate a new pole of urban ecological regeneration that expands over a densely populated area 4. The library is itself an attempt at reorganizing available human knowledge

    The Botanical Garden houses a comprehensive array of Mexicos endemic flora. Culture and nature, often on opposing sides, form a unity in which the visitor can reconcile their co-existence. The reading areas offer the user an opportunity for experimenting direct contact with nature. All areas profit from natural lighting and ventilation.

    The library is a great ship that navigates through time enveloped in a garden thats always itself and always new.

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