re*evolution lounge+bar

type: commercial
location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
year: 2009
client: JDFA S. DE R.L.
status: completed
project team: a10studio, Mariano Arias-Diez


The project needed the remodeling of 2 different
commercial spaces, joining them together into a bar in
downtown Cabo San Lucas (Mexico).

The project explored the redefinition of the "ground",
the manipulation of the ground surface, transforming an element that carries a fixed code into an active field, complex and mutant. The ambiguity between the surface and space, between bi-dimension and tri-dimension, is perhaps one of the constants of the project as an alternative to the contrast between the ground and the architectural object.

The surface is not only the envelope of space, but also what defines it, as it emerges in between the both of them a close relationship. Also exploring the ambiguity between ground and envelope, instead of opposing them as is commonly done, we exploit the indeterminacy that exists between them.

The architecture is not anymore just a vertical and active entity built on top of the horizontal and passive flat surface of the ground. Here the ground mutates into an active surface, a plane constructed from where architecture emerges as an unlikely fluctuating figure.

The program of the project (a restaurant wing and a bar wing which could be isolated and also joint together plus its kitchen and services) is solved with, A spatial loop with transgressive trajectories, with knots and crosses, links and virtual links as well as overlapping messages which are attractors of activity intended to provoke multiple situations (junctions seemingly impossible suddenly possible) in open and closed spatial agencies at once.

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