Competition

1st Place

Mexico DF, Mexico
2008

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The Mitikah Master Plan project resulted from an international competition that was won while still with Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects to design an over eight million square foot mixed-use development in the south of Mexico City. Originating on the former Bancomer headquarters building site, this project was conceived as a lost piece of the city.

With the creation of a pedestrian street, which creates a North-South axis through the entire project, the new buildings were then organized around this great pedestrian avenue. Of top priority was creating a rich urban environment for the many residential, institutional, and corporate buildings that are part of a cohesive whole.

The project incorporates rental residential apartments of 40m2, 60m2, and 80m2 and are distributed to best use light and natural ventilation. The internal circulation per floor extends to the buildings exterior and is used as an opportunity to be perched among balconies located on the building facades at the end of every corridor on each floor. These balconies offer the residences amazing views of this ambitious new urban development, as well as being animated on the building exterior.

A unique retail element is the submerged retail plaza at the main facade which includes a major supermarket and adjacent retail that will eventually connect to the almost 50,000m2 of retail part of adjacent phases. The project also has retail at the ground level, which will have shops and restaurants and is the first in a series future residential, office and hotel buildings, all part of the Mitikah Master Plan and designed by such renowned architects as Cesar Pelli, Richard Meier and RTKL.