Ámsterdam 68

By Gastón Porte

Inside a profound cultural circuit surrounding one of the most notorious parks in Condesa, the
development displays a series of remarkable balconies serving as the culminating design for wide
apartments where depth is essential. Located near a series of groves and green areas, permitting a
deep and more intrinsic connection than any other real estate development, its relationship with
beautiful fern buttresses and nature, display as a botanical abundance for revindication in the
concrete jungle. In an edge corner of Mexico City and a wide-open space full of on-sale properties,
overcomes and flourishes an additional venture for JSa Promotora, among the neighborhood’s
genius loci. Surrounded full of renown restaurants and encompassed by some of the most creative
cultural centers in the last decade, this property represents, amidst its architectural design, quality
and precision in the big city.

El Plaza Condesa, Blackberry Auditorium, Plaza Insurgentes and Popocatéptl, Parque España,
among others, hem in as the most popular neighbors for the development in Condesa by Javier
Sánchez. Full of near street-cafés offer tenants the possibility for urban public space, among a wide
range for other cultural prospects and public ventures.

Amsterdam 68 endeavors the place’s natural ambience a provisional escape through the interior of
the building. Creates a dialogue between nature and the hosts in a very interesting built context.
The postponement of concrete homogenizes and transforms in new matter, in a building disputing
routine; becomes a free and in equity upon the neighborhood’s context.

Due to some existing limitations among the founding’s regulations in Condesa, the venture’s design
became an important challenge for Javier Sánchez’s architectural office, in addition of Benedikt
Fahlbusch. Prescripts were followed, and key ideas ensued the objective: optimize the spaces and
maximize the potential for the households.

The scheme welcomes its inmates with a refined lobby, full of floral endemic species and concrete
diversifications among its walls. In dispersion through an interesting staircase’s hike, tenants can
access their dreamt homes. The project becomes a nurturing proposal, which shows a distinctive
mindset of the building and its surroundings: colossal terraces permitting an alter perspective of the
room. Along with extended bay windows offering a pleasant view of the smashing groves on the
street aside the building.

The complex is made from concrete and high-quality materials, compiled to JSa office’s portfolio,
permitting a series of distinct atmospheres in terms of culture and art. Symmetry is very well
exemplified by the dedication and perseveration employed in the first drawings. Groves and green
areas fill the whole place on, waking up the sensation of being, a true and redundant space.
Enlarged windows are comprehended, endorsing light focus and illumination techniques in a
dialogue created for and by the spectator.

Las figuras que forman al inmueble y cómo éstas consiguen el correcto aprovechamiento de los
espacios, en el acomodamiento singular que sólo un proyecto autoría de Sánchez-Fahlbusch suele
presentar como argumento. El proyecto conecta a la naturaleza con lo urbano, un verdadero
ejemplo del objetivo primordial: construir una ciudad.

Forms that conceive the venture, and how well-organized they manage to subdue the exploitation in
its spaces., in the arrangement encompassed by an authorship alike Sánchez-Fahlbusch can
present as an argument. The development connects nature with urban life, building a remarkable
case: to frame the structure of a city.