Corporate Falcon

The company Falcón, engaged in the sale of medical instruments and healthcare equipment, needed a new building for its headquarters in Mexico City. The main requirement, besides the need for more space and streamlining operations, was to provide a building volume that would fundamentally change the perception of a business, where the work environment becomes the center of trade and an ideal place for clients to be received while also being sufficiently representative of a business with advanced technology. The plot of land measuring 2353m² is located on a quiet street near the San Angel neighborhood, where three types of buildings already existed: two along the perimeter and the largest one freely positioned in the middle of a garden. In this way, the area was divided into different sections, concentrating the sales space in the central building, the main construction intervention in the complex. Starting with the main structure composed of large openings, it was liberated from interior layout, and the project was conceived as a crystal box floating in the garden. Attention was focused on the relationships between the interior space and the exterior. The glass facade floating in front of the solid envelope creates a filter between the polarity of these two spaces. Consequently, the relationship between them is carefully adjusted, seeking a microsphere represented by fragments or snippets of branches, stones, or just a cloud drifting across the sky. A translucent material, a hexagonal mesh encapsulated between two sheets of glass, creates sequences of external spaces and casts an orange light into the interior, which is painted in contrasting shades of gray, creating a veil of colors and reflections that transform or disappear depending on the perspective from which they are being observed. The perforation is a response to the search for views that lose their weight, which exists in traditional windows, to observe the exterior mysteriously sliced and illuminated, seemingly random, capable of grappling with gravity, like a view through tree branches. In this way, both facades are perforated. They appear as a system of pixels touching only at their edges and seem to be further developed. This metaphor is used as a relation of ideal connection between the business and its clients.