Plaza de las Tres Culturas,a physical juxtaposition of Aztec, Spanish and Modern culture heritage in the heart of Mexico City, charged with historical meaning. With Mente en Blanco we are looking for a new experience for this specific location. To create this different experience we propose to privatize the square and make it accessible only via the Metropolitan Infographic Center. The MIC will be embedded in the square and charged with the history of the place. The emptiness on the square will be contrasted with the active edges and the surrounding city. This results in the intensified experience of Mexican history on this sacral place.
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Status: competition 2006
Team: Johan De Wachter, Joana Torres, Marieke van Hensbergen, Louise Nedergaard Clausen
Client: Arquine, Mexico
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Team: Johan De Wachter, Joana Torres, Marieke van Hensbergen, Louise Nedergaard Clausen
Client: Arquine, Mexico
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
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Johan De Wachter
Johan de Wachter is an architect and founding partner at Woonwerk Architecten. He came to Rotterdam after his studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL) and worked from 2000 to 2004 at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA/Rem Koolhaas) on various urban planning and architecture projects and competitions. In 2003 he founded Fün Design Consultancy and was a partner until 2005. In 2005 he founded Johan De Wachter Architecten and in 2011 he started 2DVW Architecten in Antwerp together with Rik De Vooght. In 2023, the agencies are given a new name. With the establishment of Woonwerk Architecten, the collaboration is given further shape. With Woonwerk, Johan works on projects at home and abroad.
Johan regularly teaches and has been, among others, a guest lecturer at Delft University of Technology, the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg. He was appointed associate professor of urban design at Kaunas University of Technology in 2015. Here he leads the design studios with a specific focus on the integral transformation of former soviet residential areas (microrayons). Johan De Wachter was selected in 2014 for the “Europe 40 Under 40 Award”. This award recognized Johan as one of the 40 leading young design talents from Europe.
In addition to his work as an architect and teacher, Johan regularly sits on various committees and juries in the Netherlands and abroad. He is currently a member of the spatial quality committee in Breda (NL) and of the environmental committee in Tilburg (NL).
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