OCHAP

Office for Cohabitation Processes

SOCIAL PEAKS

PROGRAM: Pavillion
TEAM: OCHAP (Valerio Franzone)
CLIENT: Arquine
LOCATION: Mexico City, Mexico
AREA: 122 m²
STATUS: International design competition, 2023

Social Peaks is a device for cultivating and fostering social relations in any urban context with a temperate or hot climate. It arises from the ground physically and processually because it represents the continuity between the urban environment, its social systems and processes, and their reciprocal nurturing relationships.
Social Peaks is shaped by three peaks of different heights that cover stands surrounding an ideal piazza for organized, improvised, and unexpected encounters and gatherings: it's a place to rest during a work break or a walk, a place for a concert or a political assembly, to play, or to chat with a friend or a stranger. Social Peaks offers shaded seats and a piazza, but it doesn't stop the breeze and the rain.

Social Peaks is environmentally sustainable and made of local products:
- 90% bamboo canes for the structure and wood boards for the bleachers;
- 10% nails, screws, bolts, and an agricultural sunshade net.
It is a dry construction of elements that can be disassembled and reused for other purposes. It doesn't require anchoring on the ground because its 3D bamboo structure and wood paneling make it rigid and heavy enough not to move.