The Cube Tower is a 70m tall office building in Guadalajara, Mexico designed by Catalan architect Carme Pinós. It has 19 floors plus a basement level and was constructed between 2004-2005. The building was designed to maximize natural ventilation and light through its three concrete core structure, which contain elevators and services. Large cantilevered slabs projected up to 10m from the cores, supported by post-tensioned steel beams and allowing open floor plans with few interior columns. This innovative structural system, along with a double-skin facade, terraces, and an atrium space, minimizes the need for mechanical cooling in Guadalajara's climate.

1. CUBE TOWER , MEXICO

2. Cube Tower,
Mexico
Architect :Carme Pinós
Year(s) of
construction:2004-2005
Height:70 m
Floors :19 + 1 basement
level
Elevators :3
Land Area:2,520 m2
Floor Area :2,500 m2
Built-up Area:14,500 m2
Location :Guadalajara,
Jalisco, Mexico
Coordinates :20° 42' 34"
N, 103° 24' 52" W
INTRODUCTION
 The office building "Torre Cube", the Catalan architect
Carme Pinós has become the focus of all eyes in
Guadalajara (Mexico).
 This tower is 70m tall and is built in an area of high
seismic intensity.
 The timing and the uniqueness of the proposed tower
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 Torre Cube plays with gravity, with the balance of its
parts, which is entrusted to a rational system of pieces
of concrete.
 The game has its structural perceptive immediate
response following the laws that affect the precise
gestures and shapes.
 The environmental variables are arguments that have
helped define the materiality of the building, turning
their office spaces ventilated to a patio that allows the
intake air soft and does not require facilities to be
treated.

3. LOCATION
 Located in the neighborhood of high standing Puerta
de Hierro, in Guadalajara, capital of Jalisco, Mexico.

5. CONCEPT
 Opposition of the offices that require employees to
work enclosed within four walls, Pinós raised an
architecture designed not only in terms of sculptural
beauty, but primarily designed to offer a better
experience for users.
 The project stems from the desire to create office
ventilated and lighted all with natural light, and in
that given the good climate of the city of Guadalajara
air conditioning was not necessary.

6. SPACES
 The fragmented volumes, which creates high terraces converted into
windows of urban space and the large-central portico, which opens
the building to get a landscape-architecture that loses autism.
 The building consists of 20 levels total, four of which are used as
parking lots (levels -12.90 to -4.35 m) and the rest is used for offices
(-1.50 levels to +48.05).
 The center of the building, namely the space between the three
clusters of vertical movement, is an open space that is illuminated
by deleting laterally alternately three floors of offices and modules
that, while they become windows of the space center, lets the air
circulate by the possibility of removing the air conditioning.
 These "cores" function as the main structure of the building, and
each has all the elements of services, there is an elevator in each of
them, a ladder and public toilets.

7. STRUCTURE
 It has resorted to a mixed structure of reinforced concrete, concrete and
steel structural postensado.
 The building was developed from three cores of concrete which are the
only structure for securing the entire building.
 Of these emerging big blown up to 10 m with slabs of up to 22 m. that
were raised by the use of massive slabs postensadas and innovative wall
metal beams.
 These three cores contain all the facilities and vertical circulations.
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 The cores are the only structure of the building from where they exit
cantilever beams which are major supporters postensadas slabs of the
floors, these cores are pillars, the only structure for securing the entire
building.

9.  Of those departing on a large overhang jácenas singing variable
depending on the number of plants. The forged postensados are subject
to these jácenas without help from any pillar. This allows us to develop
a very free parking and offer modules for office without any hindrance.
Levels
 At levels of parking (basement) structure covers the entire field
(50x60m), while that from the first level of office, the building is
conceived as three modules of two different offices linked to two with
three cores services containing the vertical circulations, considering
this the best way to maintain the structural aesthetics raised

11. Transmission of loads
 First it should be noted that the final cost of a building is
conditioned by several factors, including the pattern of transmission
charges taken, together with its lights and materials.
 In general, a building will be more economical while most are clear
and defined its mechanisms of transmission charges.
 This is because the calculation model in this course will be more
accurate and effective to have an impact on the optimization of
sections and members.
 On the other hand the right choice of material and type affect the
final cost. Function and form should be linked to the extent
possible.
 The scheme of load transfer is simple and clear: each is based on the
forged steel structures side cantilever, which rely on curved screens
that transmit their cargo to the foundation.

13. Cantilevers
 Large blown up to 10m with forged up to 22m, with half-lights of
16m, were raised by the massive use of forged postensados and
innovative metal wall beams that allow open floor plans and
relationships of light singing L/55 with only average amounts of
steel for pre-only 3.3 kg/m2 and corrugated steel only 10kg/m2.
 The flights have been planned so as to offset each other.
 Ie areas and center of gravity of them have been designed to
minimize the moment, offsetting the blocks between them.
 That way there would be no reactions traction on the bottom of the
screens.
 This is an important consideration for the design of the foundation
because it is complicated and expensive anchor to pull them, in
addition to the strong seismic condition of the site.

15. MATERIALS
 White concrete and wood are among the materials that accompany the
conventional concrete, steel, glass and aluminum to.
Beams
 The steel beams used in the wall to reduce significantly its own weight in
comparison to a conventional beam wall and allow the passage of natural
light.
 On the other hand facilitates the construction process because some
module start at high levels and is costly to keep underpinned.
 With the beams of metal wall and postensado and desapuntalan modules
are executed in less than 7 days.
Facades
 The exterior facade is composed of a body of latticework of wood with
sliding doors that make umbrellas and the interior of operable windows
with steel frames.
 This "double skin" to provide enough natural ventilation building that
rarely require the use of air conditioning (remember, is in Guadalajara).

17. Lights
 The good natural lighting is provided by opening up
the space that gives the 'atrium', with three floors,
large porches and terraces.

19. BASEMENT

20. LOWER LEVEL

21. FLOOR PLAN LOBBY

22. ELEVATIONS

23. SECTIONS

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