The 9th International Arquine Competition, set out in the context of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, calls for proposals for a Metropolitan Infographic Center, an archive and permanent exhibition of the different graphic expressions of the Mexico City territory, including prehispanic codices, plans of the colonial, Porfirian, revolutionary, modern and contemporary city, as well as metro plans, graphics of seismic areas, maps of the usage and timing of urban transport, water and drainage infrastructures, and lot division. The center should house a space for the exhibition of possible and ongoing city projects, with a clearly informative vocation aimed at citizens. At the same time, it must be capable of incorporating new exhibition and information storage technologies, responding to the complexity of a places that unites prehispanic, colonial and modern architectures.
The Metropolitan Infographic Center will have a total surface area of 450 m2.
Spaces to develop:
150 m2 triple height (where different map supports, conventional plans, codice facsimiles, computers, holograms, devices and so on can be hung)
Archive: 150 m2
Offices: 75 m2
Bathrooms: 25 m2
Storeroom for artefacts and maintenance workshop: 50 m2

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1. Preis:
Ignacio Santos Morell, Mexiko

2. Preis:
Luis Rodrigo Callejas Mujica, Kolumbien

3. Preis:
Farid Noufaily, Kanada

Anerkennung:
Héctor Guayaquil Sosa, Mexiko

Manuel Carlos Reyes Cedillo, Mexiko