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Grupo Arca Design Center | Esrawe Studio

Grupo Arca Design Center | Esrawe Studio

Grupo Arca Design Center | Esrawe Studio

20:32 08 May in Design Center
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05-08-2026: Moderni; Designed by Esrawe Studio in 2019, the Grupo Arca Design Center in Guadalajara, Mexico, is a 6,000-square-meter, two-volume complex inspired by a “manufactured landscape” or stone quarry. It acts as a hub for design, culture, and material selection, combining a showroom (the “Quarry”) and a warehouse. 

•  Guadalajara, Mexico  | ~ 64,580 SF | ~ 2019 Year | © Genevieve Lutkin, Et Al

Type – Design Center |  Form – Box  |  Shape – Rectangle |  Scheme – Courtyard

PROJECT IDEAS

This modern architecture features a “monolithic” travertine facade, a central “Agora” for cultural events, a bookstore-café, and a high-tech warehouse designed as a neutral gallery for stone materials.

  • The “Agora” Forum (Central Hub): A monumental gathering space designed for dialogue, lectures, and exhibitions, functioning as a “new journey of museographic character”.
  • Quarry-Inspired Facade: A monolithic exterior composed of Travertino Ocean Blue marble and black concrete, intended to emulate the aesthetic of a quarry, or “manufactured landscape”.
  • Immersive Material Display (Warehouse): The warehouse is designed as a raw, industrial warehouse container that makes the materials (stone slabs) the protagonist, featuring truck bays and a forest backdrop.
  • Interactive Technology: The showroom uses QR codes that visitors can scan with mobile devices to instantly retrieve information, costs, and to build a “database of the contents of interest”.
  • Mixed-Use Spaces: Includes a bookstore-café with maple-plywood furniture, creating a social, community-focused hub for design professionals.
  • Functional Duality: The design team (Esrawe Studio) emphasized a dichotomy between the “unaltered, cavernous and raw” and the “intervened, rational and tectonic”.
  • Art Integration: The courtyard houses sculptures in parota and volcanic rock (e.g., Jorge Yázpik), showcasing the versatility of natural materials.
  • Materiality Details: Negro Basáltico granite for flooring in the café, leather-upholstered seating in reception, teak steps in the stairway, and Gran Antique marble in the restrooms

This modern architecture is characterized by design features ~ Concrete, Concrete+Stone, Design Center, Form-Box, Form-Box+Linear, Scheme-Courtyard, Scheme-Linear, Simple, Simple Architecture, Steps, Steps-Exterior, Steps-Seating, Steps-Stone, Stone, Stone Architecture.

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PROJECT SPECS

Interior Design + Furniture: Esrawe Studio; Design Team;  Concept of Experience in Showroom: Esrawe + Cadena; Brand Identity: Cadena+Asociados Concept Design; Renders: Yair Ugarte, Moisés González, Gael Félix; External Advisors: CuldeSac, Alberto Martínez; Technical Collaboration: A-001; Lighting: LUA Luz en Arquitectura; Landscape: PAAR Paisaje Arquitectura; Construction: CDM, Jaime de Obeso, Olmo Ernesto Godínez; Photography: Genevieve Lutkin, Jaime Navarro, César Béjar (Production: Revista Container), Fernando MarroquinRead More!

MODERN DESIGN IDEAS

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