Located in one of the fastest growing and most developed areas in Leon, Guanajuato, a project arises to detonate the densification and mixed use of a city with few verticality exercises in its urban fabric. Thus, a housing and office project converges in a master plan designed by MAYER HASBANI where density and the elusion of conflicting views become the guiding axes of the project.

Both volumes are the result of a premeditated geometric tear that breaks the encounter of the objects to release the sight towards the city, while the parallel bodies are staggered to create terraces; with this strategy, 60% of the roof surface becomes a habitable space, turning the fifth façade into a usable and green element for the inhabitants.

For the pedestrian, a large plaza was designed with urban equipment that invites passersby and visitors to the complex to enjoy. Here, the detail of the urban design is reflected in a fun 3×3 grid module that is materialized in the colored blocks that form the floor and into the planter-benches that turn this access into a new public space for the city.

From the plaza, the office and retail tower rise through concrete walls that translate into delicate stone cartouches that alternate with the transparency of the glass to outline the building’s silhouette. Inside, the first two levels belong to the commercial section, while the following levels are occupied by a new concept of micro-offices in condominiums with innovative common areas. At the rear, the residential tower houses two housing concepts that are separated in their interior operation to provide the necessary privacy.

The intervention provides a new exercise in plastic and functionality that adapts to the environment; the stepped base of the parking lots extends the scale of the pedestrian while the towers merge at their highest point as pixels that mimic the landscape with the new buildings.

In a city known for its social and urban dynamics, MAYER HASBANI designed a residential project that responds to the multiplicity required by the border metropolis. It is located at the head of a block that used to house the old Tijuana bullfighting ring, strategically positioned to provide the greatest privacy and the least possible urban noise. Thus, MAYER HASBANI designs two housing projects that are interwoven in the same structure; both projects have a different market approach where the functions are completely independent. Briefly, the plastics of each façade demonstrate the personality of each project; the north façade of the building houses the Adamant project, and the south façade contains Adamant Grand.

The distribution of the apartments in each block is by means of a corridor with a corridor of apartments, these converge in a central body where the elevators are housed; powerful H-shaped walls solidify the interior, allowing the slender bodies to be offset to free the visuals and delineate a delicate interspace. Tectonically, the two bodies are joined by a frame that rests on the 3-level parking podium above the pedestrian level.

From the main access, a slender plastic is defined that gives a particular duality to the volume that transforms its scale towards the rest of the neighborhood. The northern portion opens its façade on the 18th and 19th amenity floors to form a window that transforms into a terrace facing the city. The rest of the façade is composed of a set of solar protection meshes that separate the terraces and hide the position of the air conditioning units. On the other hand, the south façade has a larger wall surface due to its sunny condition.

Thus, a new composition of height arrives in Tijuana; with a plastic and functional reading characterized by a block modeling that goes beyond a simple extrusion. With detail, MAYER HASBANI manages to converge two buildings into one without losing an intelligent aesthetic that breaks with the one-dimensionality of the common facades.

In the heart of La Tabacalera, one of the most emblematic neighborhoods in Mexico City, is the Casa de Landa y Escandón; unique for its French Renaissance style with Gothic accents that have earned it the status of heritage preservation. Today, we can find an endless number of stores that surround the facades of this listed building, hand in hand with a new social rhythm that requires new meeting and living spaces.

Under this premise, the MAYER HASBANI office proposes a redesign and conceptualization of Casa de Landa y Escandón that allows to maintain two scales: the previous one – in a pedestrian level that responds to the width of the streets and the old neighborhood – and the current one – an urbanism that consolidates uses and functions in high vertical densities, in perfect synchrony with the spirit that characterizes the current city.

Through the intelligent and strategic use of geometry, the architects of MAYER HASBANI draw, from the street, a vanishing line that allows to re-organize the facades of the new building into a diagonal facing south that privileges the sunshine of the apartments. Thus, the new facade antagonizes with the remaining public square and allows to increase the total height of the building without overshadowing the sunshine to the streets that frame it.

Regardless of having low level neighbors, the intelligent geometric proposal allows the new 28 level inhabitant to become an urban window that opens the horizon towards the heart of La Tabacalera; generating a delicate symphony of full and empty where all the housing spaces open to the city with green terraces product of the perfect staggered geometry of the building.

As one looks away, the silhouette of the building seems to fade into pixels, blending into the texture of the city. A great exercise on strategic intervention and energetic architecture that reminds us that the interaction with an existing building should not always be subtle but should be faithful to the present time that gave birth to it.

Adamant Mérida, the youngest development of the Adamant family located in Yucatán, México, freshly displays a new canon in housing standards under the understanding of its context. As part of the new Cabo Norte urban development, Adamant is in the best place of the whole complex: in the meeting of the largest lake and the smaller lake, a site where Adamant naturally stands as a landmark of urban composition.

It is an agile and fresh project that pays tribute to its time and which designs the practicality and the luxury of a new architectonic model exalting the fortune of its context: modeling a true tropical elegance. The powerful geometry, a signature of the architectural firm MH, raises vertically creating concrete heads in the air that form an imposing structural silhouette of concrete, steel and glass where the facade is not ornament but much more than that: it forms a structural system that unfolds on balconies and parasols to take care of the heating and environmental conditions of the complex.

The pool as well as the amenities are places designed exclusively for the enjoyment of the resort community. The exposed parking lot becomes a platform for outdoor amenities such as an infinity pool that glazes visually to the lake endless lake multiplying the perception of its scale and terraces with design furniture that allows the greatest enjoyment. The interior amenities are located on the top floors of the towers to maximize the view to the horizon and give another sense to the daily practice of exercise or greater relaxation when having a drink at the bar.

Adamant Mérida is a place designed in all its senses, an extremely contemporary architecture that manages to dialogue timelessly with the powerful natural context respecting and multiplying the importance of nature within the living space.

Adamant Querétaro is the architectural reflection of this development; however, it differentiates itself strongly from its market by being an architectonic project that bets on singularity and care of its detail. It steps away from real estate standardization and is aware of the context and contemporary needs of the population.

The project emerges on the mountaintop, it takes advantage of the sinuous land and height to extend its proportions, until reaching the sky: it is a vertical urban reference. The building resolves itself into two independent apartment towers that join in the lower entrance area as well as in the higher levels where the common areas and amenities of Adamant Queretaro are. These towers form a sculptural vacuum between them that appear and disappear depending on if it is being viewed from the street or the mountain’s slope. That is, the building moves with its user, it is never the same since it plays with the perspective and the view depending on both place and time. The towers have 29 levels of apartments and 175 total housing units. There are possibilities of sizes from 47 m2 to 120 m2 with twelve different distributions and common areas and amenities that allow establishing healthy relationships and dialogue with neighbors.

The sunny conditions design gives a solution by deep terraces per apartment was designed in order to protect the living and rest areas from intense sun, this plane game builds the structural skin of the building that establishes different spatial reading rhythms in the complex’s façade. Depending on the sun’s path the terraces change proportions, giving a structural honesty to the building’s morphology. The main construction material is white concrete that helps exacerbate elegance and at the same time flirts with the clouds that travel through it.

Adamant Leon is a housing complex that increases the architectonical project of the State of Guanajuato. It bets on social relationships adhered to an architectonical context through new apartment models and
innovations in the modulation and circulation of interior spaces. At the same time, the bold geometry design developed through its constructive structure, draws a milestone in the buildings of Leon profiling itself to become, most probably, the protagonist of the new and edifying skyline of the Mexican state.

Is an architectonic kaleidoscope. Its form is born from the most precise design that combines geometry and space. As you observe the building from different points in the city it transforms, a luxury crucible, spatial practicality and innovative solutions.

The interwoven façade and the general morphology of the project are born from its structural solution, a rhythm of the carrying flagstones that dictate the guidelines of the transitions within and outside the building. These carrying walls make a reticulum that modulates and grants aesthetic boldness of the vertical elements, the materials open and close to establish a dialogue between the voids and the built space. The corners of the building are concave surfaces that visually contrast with the orthogonality of the axis floors.

Is a housing building of 170 apartments that are distributed in 11 different ways on 16 construction levels and range from 35 m2 to 114 m2. The apartments are born from an effort of breaking with the traditional apartment nature of repetitive rhythms in order to make unique architectonic modules and vestibules that can attain the tenants needs by offering the maximum capacity of useful areas.

Adamant Tijuana is a residential complex located in Baja California, México. The general volume of the building is made up of the intersection of the terraces and parasols making a kind of textured pigeon house that generates elegant and rhythmic proportions that embrace the complex. The top of the building crowns the complex with an expressionist and elegant concrete frame that blurs the geometric partition of the building, breaking the rhythm and consolidating the project as an architectural landmark in the skyline of the city. This carefully designed corner partition provides a terrace per apartment so that the inhabitants do not feel limited within four walls and can also have contact with the outside, as well as the best views of the city. In this way, they also have access to their own recreational space that opens possibilities for contemplating the environment. The building It prostrates itself as the top of the street and gives the urban context an element of presence that was necessary to consolidate the area within its new growth. Adamant Tijuana is an architectural landmark and urban sculpture: the curvature of its terrain allows the design to draw a rhythmic torsion that contrasts with the orthogonality of the rest of its geometries.

The sunny conditions of the area were carefully studied in order to use sustainable resources such as brise soleils, which cushion the wild sun in the north of México. The proportions of the building walk as the sun walks, so that the inhabitants can ensure the best temperatures and weather conditions without resorting to air conditioning, thanks to the design of parasols and cross ventilation. The project has 200 apartments ranging from 36m2 to 160m2 and offer a possibility of 14 different distributions in 26 levels, parking, public areas for coexistence and the most luxurious and equipped amenities. Thus, users and inhabitants can enjoy a private life and at the same time build community in public areas that favor coexistence between neighbors.

Adamant Tijuana mixes luxury, practicality and modernity in the same architectural container. It works to respond to the needs of the inhabitant and at the same time tries to provide it with well-being and a sense of community.

Adamant II, one of the most outstanding architectural protagonists of the Puebla skyline. The apartment building designed and built in 2015 by the architecture firm MAYER HASBANI is forcefully detached from its neighbors for its elegant design and the timely solution to the needs of the contemporary real estate market.

The project is a strategic game of vertical concrete planes that form structural squares that inside the living space to its full potential. This building houses eight types of apartments, amenity areas on the 26th and 27th floors: game room, sky bar, yoga room, pilates, party room, spa and lounge for relaxation. The complex has a swimming pool located on the seventh floor that works for the enjoyment of its inhabitants and as a smart design resource located above the residents parking. In this way, the volume of parking fulfills a double function and takes responsibility with people and not only with cars.

The building that stands imposingly on the horizon of Puebla stands out for a material sincerity of three basic elements: concrete, glass and metal profiles. This material simplicity builds a balanced harmony where luxury is reflected in the careful construction details. The texture of the building is created by the design of the balconies, which penetrate and weave the facade in a sculptural way, breaking the monotony of an orthodox facade without falling into a whimsical design. This formal sharpness is also developed in the interior where the expressionist planes permeate the building to propose intimate and modeled but functional circulations that lead to the elevator circulation core that serves all floors and all areas optimizing the routes of the user.

Like the other projects of the architectural firm MAYER HASBANI, Adamant II also has a responsibility to make a city, is a product of the reasoning of the needs combined with the intelligent use of space and topped off with an expressive design: a combination not very easy to obtain, an ideal combination for the new development of the city of Puebla.

On the important urban crossing of The Periférico and Via Atlixcayotl in the Angelópolis area of Puebla is located ADAMANT, a new complex of 30 levels of mixed uses that has become the leading project in sustainability and comfort in the most important area of development in Puebla.

The new urban center includes 20,000 m2 of housing divided into 175 lofts ranging from 50 m2 to 120 m2. At the same time, Adamant seeks to enrich the urban fabric creating a commercial area in front of the complex ensuring 24 hours of public life providing equipment, services and security to its users.

The monolithic tower emerges as a torso on the horizon. The homogeneous stone materials of this building become a sculpture: black granite and glass merge to give rise to geometric experimentation. Through the design of fractal patterns, the main tower results in a patchwork of garden terraces that open to the sky and landscape to address the inhabitant to spectacular views and bathe the interior with light and coziness.

The precise objective for the design of ADAMANT was to reduce the dwelling unit to optimize resources and spaces and therefore widen the public areas, in other words: the objective was to design community. ADAMANT is in a strategic position to welcome passers crossing the highway to Puebla through a symbolic gate between two almost symmetrical towers in height and proportion who resemble the voice of progress.

The project maintains a harmonious relationship with the environment, based on a detailed study of the site and an analysis of the physical and biological environment, with the aim of integrating the building with the existing landscape.

The principle was to turn the forest into the value of the project, and to use the architecture as the tool that would allow framing the context to appreciate it in the best way, and thus achieve a unique site.

The intervention was respectful, non-invasive: the local vegetation was maintained, and nature and the buildings coexist without detriment to comfort.

A six-story complex, around 30 palapas and natural structures blend in with the vegetation: the greater number of square meters assigned to the facades allows for spectacular views -up to 270 degrees in some cases-, natural light and ventilation, but with privacy.

The common areas respect the environment, which includes the endemic species of the site, the flora and fauna of the area.

The spaces maintain different environments for activities that invite rest and contemplation.

The constructions are distributed along the land, on a curved adjacent area with a view of the golf course, which generates the trace of a symmetrical axis whose vertex is the main access traffic circle. The division generates two towers to the north and two to the south, which approach the roads, with a generous green area.

The apartments open to the outside through the terraces, with the unusual privilege of a natural shade provided by trees so high that they reach between 5 and 6 floors high, like the building itself. The choice of materials favors integration: the shapes, colors and textures of the buildings blend in with the environment.