Guatemala City, Guatemala
Located in an area of the city of Guatemala with excellent connectivity and noteworthy development of residential projects, Gómez Platero Architecture & Urbanism’s Gaura mixed-use building creates public spaces that reflect the processes of cultural and economic change that society and architecture are undergoing.
Gaura has recently been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Awards Honorable Mention by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
The design is based on concepts such as compliance with regulations regarding occupancy, setbacks, height, constructability and permeability indexes, structural, construction, and circulation efficiency; and the architectural proposal as an amalgam of urban, formal, programmatic, spatial, structural, and technological definitions.
The building consists of eight underground levels and two towers, one for residential use (20 stories) and the other for residential and corporate use (19 stories), joined by a commercial base structure offering amenities.
It takes advantage of the conditions of the site to generate a public space through the retraction of the facades and create a commercial promenade on the first floor through which users can cross the entire complex.
The commercial base extends to the basement, where an anchor store is located, and to the second floor, which offers both commercial spaces and public terraces with views of the city.
Above this public space, there are three floors of amenities to serve both towers.
Different design strategies are applied to the envelopes to provide identity and visual richness, break with homogeneity and create unique sectors.
Project: Gaura
Architects: Gómez Platero Architecture & Urbanism
Lead Architect: Mártin Gómez Platero
Client: Grupo Rosul
Photographs Courtesy of the Architects
