Architecture

Interior architectural design of 3,000 m2, Inverlat Tower, Mexico City.

This project is distinguished by its design in accordance with the company’s image and defined by dynamic elements while maintaining functionality. Upon entering DirecTV’s new Mexico City offices, one enters a world beyond the noise of the city, a stage set of sorts, with internal views that inspire the excitement of television programming, a world of images, visual stimuli and framed elements using color, wood and stone.

The use of light woods, colored granite and stainless steel accents promotes an innovative and modern image. There is little to convey a sense of space, you are no longer in Mexico City, instead you inhabit a stage set. The hustle and bustle of the space and the efficiency of the operation immediately become evident. These new offices provide employees with room to work as individuals and in teams; comfortably, confidently and efficiently.

The reception area consists of metal and wood paneling with the DirecTV’s television channels, a metallic mapa-mundi that symbolizes vision in the form of an eye and stairs made to represent their logo. The reception desk is a continuum of the space.

The meeting rooms and offices are solitary volumes in space, paneled in wood and free of the building’s structure, glass facade and ceiling system. The private offices, like the meeting rooms, are liberated and independent from the structure.

The offices use a structure wrapped in fabric as a ceiling piece which reflects and lights the space within.

The new DirecTV offices occupy a space that was once used as an old theater house and retail center. The high ceilings, with freed structures provide scale and are high enough to allow for a mezzanine which houses the semi-public meeting rooms. These are accessed directly via the main stairs in the reception and private secondary stairs from the open office area. We considered the importance of employee productivity in designing the space, resulting in team areas located in close proximity to group leaders to enhance office productivity.

Furthermore, we emphasized and enhanced an environment that benefits not only the employee but clients as well. Sales should increase when prospective clients are brought in and
“live the space”. We developed an international scheme that reflects the global network of TV programming and their clientele.

Among the design challenges were to make the double and triple heights work together in a functional scale; the planning of a highly irregular space while maintaining the integrity of
each departmental work team, with the ultimate goal of producing the quality image unique to DirecTV.

Torre de Inverlat Boulevard Manuel Ávila Camacho #1,

Primer Piso Colonia Polanco.

Project date: 1998-1999

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Fabric ceilings were used to diffuse light

ABC MEDICAL CENTER

Texas Registered Architect No. 27711
NCARB Certificate No. 93782
Texas Registered Interior Designer No. 11119
NCIDQ ® Certificate No. 027298