Commercial area: 14,232,47 square feet Restaurant area: 2,489,69 square feet Office space: 44,239,56 square feet Total construction: 115,199,89 square feet
Design: 2018-2020 Construction: 2020-2021 Architectural design: Paz Arquitectura Structural design: Sismoconsult Project management: URBOP Electrical design: Instelectra Technology design: CYGNUM Hydraulic design: Hidromaq/Plotecnia Lighting design: LUCE MA lighting design: Arch. Eli Porres Landscaping: ENVERDECER Photography: Cristobal Palma
AEME is a building located in Guatemala City with an open design in the first floor for commercial and restaurants use. The second floor combines commercial with offices and the upper three levels are designed for office space.
The first level is approached from the street through a double height area in order to emphasize openness and amicable urban use, pretending to be a continuation of the public space around.
On the fifth floor there is a terrace for the use of all tenants as a social area. There are 4 basements for parking.
The design flows around a central atrium to provide natural light to the building and it include 2 elevators and a sculptural staircase combining steel and marble.
Several contemporary visual artists were invited to provide works related to architecture. These collaborations include artists such as Luis Gonzalez Palma, Andrea Monroy, Angel Poyón. Alejandro Paz, Gabriel Rodriguez and Dario Escobar.
The building seeks to reflect a basic concept regarding to time. Its strict geometry combined with a constant movement through the mullions around all the different levels create a degraded cycle. As much as time is rigid and strict, we search to break the basic form in the façades, but using circular exact geometry (again, like time).
The color of the building is a dark gray, almost black, reaching for a neutral but persistent color in order to enhance the soft elements that give life to the façades, wood and light. The building intends to emphasize transparency and the use of natural light as a life giving element.
