Located in the city of Morelia Michoacán, Mexico, WOL Center is a small office building that responds to the needs derived from the high-level world globalization, which has generated new business models.

The project by the architecture firm Iván Marín + Doho Constructivo consisted in the remodeling of a corner house, built-in 1980, in an area that originally had a completely residential use, and over time witnessed the growth and disorderly development in the city of Morelia, in the north-central part of the state of Michoacán.
With a limited budget, the project by Iván Marín + Doho Constructivo respected the existing construction as much as possible, minimally altering the original structure, which finds the true protagonist of a skin façade made of perforated concrete blocks as a latticework, which also serves as a controlling element for light, ventilation, and temperature.

The architectural program includes on the ground floor a common reception, lounge area, kitchenette, offices, assistant area, management, boardroom, and reading area. On the first level, there are a meeting room, private and common offices.

The project has been the winner of the "Commercial Building" award from the Architecture, Construction & Design Awards 2020 Rethinking The Future, under the concept of Sustainability and Innovation.
 

Description of project by Iván Marín + Doho Constructivo

Business Center with physical and virtual offices. It is a workspace, with broad areas of collaboration, offering networking, co-working and collaborative integration services, rooms for conducting business and work meetings, where service and functionality are a priority.

Its simple shape is completely wrapped by lattice that gives it texture and privacy.

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Design team
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Doho Constructivo.
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Dr. Domingo Ruíz López | Ruíz Consultores.
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Area
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412.82 sqm.
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Autocad, Sketchup, V-Ray, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign.
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Completion.- 2016.
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St. Gobernación #12, 5 de Diciembre district, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico.
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Ivan Marín.- Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Michoacana of San Nicolás de Hidalgo in 1997, beginning that same year his professional practice carrying out architectural projects and its construction.

In partnership with Yuri Reyes, in 2005, founded Doho Constructivo, a company that has been dedicated to architectural design for more than 15 years, carrying out architectural projects that range from residential projects, such as “Q Baja” at El Sargento Beach in Baja California Sur; urban developments, such as the “Selva Maya Tulum” development in Francisco Uh May, in Quintana Roo, to hotels as “Peepem”, a complex of 18 Boutique hotels in Tulum, Quintana Roo, among others.

In 2010, he founded, along with Pablo Idalzoaga, the Mexican-Chilean firm "Zoologika Biohábitats" staying at the Zoos of San Diego, California, Barcelona and Africam Safari. As a member of AZCARM (Association of Zoos, Hatcheries and Aquariums of the Mexican Republic) he has developed several projects for zoos, as well as the Wildlife Research Center in San Cayetano, State of Mexico, for SEMARNAT. In 2018 he was finalist of the contest for the Remodeling of the Barcelona Zoo

He currently undertakes the architectural design firm IVÁN MARÍN ARQUITECTURA, whose headquarters will be the city of Morelia, Mexico City and Los Angeles, California. Under this firm he is developing projects such as the Master Plan of the Convention and Exhibition Center of Morelia (CECONEXPO), currently under construction, Active Museum of Mexican History (MUSEA), The Gastronomic House of Mexico, The Hospice of The Angels (for the Foundation in Los Angeles California), Administrative Unit of Government, among others.

Winner of the Popular Choice Award in the seventh edition of the A + Architizer awards with the Library project for the Morelia Educational Center in the Architecture + Brick category.
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Published on: November 16, 2020
Cite: "Minimalist facade wrapped by lattices that give texture and privacy. WOL Center by Iván Marín + Doho Constructivo" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/minimalist-facade-wrapped-lattices-give-texture-and-privacy-wol-center-ivan-marin-doho-constructivo> ISSN 1139-6415
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