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Month: July 2006

Published by Rene on July 9, 2006



Hoy inicio el evento Opera en la Calle en la colonia Libertad aquí en Tijuana.

La colonia Libertad es la mas antigua de Tijuana pegada al Centro y a la Línea Internacional.

Casa de los primeros pobladores que cruzaban a trabajar a san diego, de muchos personajes del deporte como también de la cultura y música de Tijuana. La “Liber” también fue conocida por sus cholos, pachuchos, homis etc.

La calle quinta donde se ubica el viejo cine Libertad se cierra al trafico vehicular y se instalan una cantidad de puestos de comida, vino, artesanías y un gran escenarios para el espectáculo que no para desde las 10 am a 10 pm. No soy un gran conocedor de Opera, pero el evento me confirma que el espacio publico siempre se enriquece cuando le damos lugar a la ambigüedad –asombra la complejidad y relaciones de “eventos” a varias escalas que se presentan. La calle quinta es cualquier calle en Tijuana – Opera en la calle es un swap meet cultural – y como todo tianguis usa y se instala de forma parasitica en la infraestructura urbana. La ciudad en este caso por su forma urbana promueve las relaciones sociales – imposible que ocurriese en las nuevas comunidades bardadas y seriadas se los últimos 15 años.

Enhorabuena Opera en la Calle y la Liber incluyendo sus pachuchos y lowriders.

Published by Rperalta on July 9, 2006



Hoy inicio el evento Opera en la Calle en la colonia Libertad aquí en Tijuana.

La colonia Libertad es la mas antigua de Tijuana pegada al Centro y a la Línea Internacional.

Casa de los primeros pobladores que cruzaban a trabajar a san diego, de muchos personajes del deporte como también de la cultura y música de Tijuana. La “Liber” también fue conocida por sus cholos, pachuchos, homis etc.

La calle quinta donde se ubica el viejo cine Libertad se cierra al trafico vehicular y se instalan una cantidad de puestos de comida, vino, artesanías y un gran escenarios para el espectáculo que no para desde las 10 am a 10 pm. No soy un gran conocedor de Opera, pero el evento me confirma que el espacio publico siempre se enriquece cuando le damos lugar a la ambigüedad –asombra la complejidad y relaciones de “eventos” a varias escalas que se presentan. La calle quinta es cualquier calle en Tijuana – Opera en la calle es un swap meet cultural – y como todo tianguis usa y se instala de forma parasitica en la infraestructura urbana. La ciudad en este caso por su forma urbana promueve las relaciones sociales – imposible que ocurriese en las nuevas comunidades bardadas y seriadas se los últimos 15 años.

Enhorabuena Opera en la Calle y la Liber incluyendo sus pachuchos y lowriders.

Published by Rene on July 6, 2006

Hybridity revisited

Mandelbrot – Tiuana – 2001

The Mandelbrot building integrates to distinct yet instrumental modes of building practices within the city. A traditional structural steel frame is merged with systematic production methods commonly found in the manufacturing plants (maquiladoras), encouraging a hybrid technique that performs to optimize space and labor through simultaneous fabrication on and off site.





Published by Rperalta on July 6, 2006

Hybridity revisited

Mandelbrot – Tiuana – 2001

The Mandelbrot building integrates to distinct yet instrumental modes of building practices within the city. A traditional structural steel frame is merged with systematic production methods commonly found in the manufacturing plants (maquiladoras), encouraging a hybrid technique that performs to optimize space and labor through simultaneous fabrication on and off site.





Published by Rene on July 6, 2006

Buildings are historically neoclassical, modernist, post modern etc, yet architectonically they are NOW.

The intention of conservationist is to freeze a building to a form it never had, because we think that searching for the origin gives a sense of clarity, e.g. searching for the meaning of a word by going back to its origin, consequently in a Hegelian manner some would say the essence of architecture is going back to the hut, therefore architecture is dwelling.

The project for the Florence Medical Center is not a restoration – the building has good karma – it is a reincarnation. The building was strip of its many appendages in order to shed a new skin. A façade that reflects it’s inside function and maintains an urban presence – street relationship.

Florence is a project that deals with history as process rather than an image.

The pattern of the facade acts as a skin that reads the programmatic activities of the building’s interior

Disclaimer: the red glass block in the corner has a symbolic function. Florence used to be owned by Dr, Aubanel, patriarch of the same family that decided to hire Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi to build Hospital del Prado a building that has a green glass façade as its main element. The red block is a small tribute.



Published by Rperalta on July 6, 2006

Buildings are historically neoclassical, modernist, post modern etc, yet architectonically they are NOW.

The intention of conservationist is to freeze a building to a form it never had, because we think that searching for the origin gives a sense of clarity, e.g. searching for the meaning of a word by going back to its origin, consequently in a Hegelian manner some would say the essence of architecture is going back to the hut, therefore architecture is dwelling.

The project for the Florence Medical Center is not a restoration – the building has good karma – it is a reincarnation. The building was strip of its many appendages in order to shed a new skin. A façade that reflects it’s inside function and maintains an urban presence – street relationship.

Florence is a project that deals with history as process rather than an image.

The pattern of the facade acts as a skin that reads the programmatic activities of the building’s interior

Disclaimer: the red glass block in the corner has a symbolic function. Florence used to be owned by Dr, Aubanel, patriarch of the same family that decided to hire Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi to build Hospital del Prado a building that has a green glass façade as its main element. The red block is a small tribute.