Projects

In the heart of the most upcoming commercial area of the city, RACO designs a new mix use project that will gather two residential towers and a luxury commercial area that generates a series of alternated commercial terraces that overcome the sites view to the upcoming area. The buildings rotate to a favored orientated facade that slenderize its skin as it faces the north angles that accompanies the towers with a series of balconies. Trace lines of such influence produce in the inferior levels, public entrances that branch from the human entrances and commercial track, to a different parking entrances and private residential entrances in the lower parking areas.
The residential towers as the turn away from commercial areas, produce tree main rest and entertainment areas that provide the residents with private spa / fitness and hall spaces located in second and thirth floors as well as a sky pool and terrace that integrate well luxury accommodations (amenities) for residents. Commercial levels on the other hand integrate traces of continuity that produce a continuous track that integrates a series of restaurants and terraces that negotiate public integration to the context and the urban grid that allocates the distinction of the developed towers in the sloped landscape.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 38,000m2
Built Surface: 50,000m2
Typology: Mix Use
Date: May 2012
Architecture Team: RACO

Health Complex that includes different specialties, located in Tlajomulco.
Through the specific distinction and separation of medical and research specialties, topographic reading is sought to arrive at the distinction of the components that make up the different planes, the dynamics generated by the geometry of the architectural program integrating the complex.

Location: Tlajomulco, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 15000m2
Built Surface: 22000m2
Typology: Health Care
Date: October 2010
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Julio Gutierres, Monica de Alba
Engineering: Alba

Due to the importance of the conservation of the existing green areas and woodland of the premises, is sought a site that clearly distinguishes two areas of social use, being the first one of private character and depending on the event.

The buildings are deplanted in a respectful way to the environment forming views of first instance to the existing green areas and later to the low areas of the city. Formally, the towers distinguish in a very sober way the use of spaces through a system of horizontal slabs that in turn finish in the use of superior spaces for green roofs for private use.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 2700 m2
Built Surface: 7000m2
Typology: Housing
Date: February 2017
Architecture Team: Carlos Rivas, Silvia Serafini, Laura Rabago, Arnoldo Rabago, Alberto Gonzalez
Engineering: DittaBau

Through the continuity of horizontal axes, a system of relationship is generated between two pregods that are united by the continuity of its slabs and the expression of diagonals that settle the zero level of the project in a basement that conforms the follow-up of the Urban Grid to commercial and institutional separate accesses.

These accesses in their view redirect the public circulation of defined areas for medical care and consultation that later turn into a circulation related to the second part of the building that proposes trades of related turns and a site at the level of Sidewalk with different offers of restaurants and shops.

Location: Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico
Site Area: 30000 m2
Built Surface: 45000m2
Typology: Health
Date: July 2017
Architecture Team: Carlos Rivas, Silvia Serafini, Alberto Gonzalez, Ramon Nuno, Laura Rabago, Arnoldo Rabago
Engineering

Basing an initial analysis the tower due to its orientations seeks to rotate the view of the units formally moving flaps of terraces and walls in a cellular and continuous way which generates in turn a uniformed stroke of a continuous pattern which distinguishes Individually each of the units, as well as the follow-up of this form to the urban site of level zero.

The tower through its 18 levels forms the shared use of commercial spaces to the public, offices and departments in the first levels, and then incorporate a type of residence unit with hotel services at subsequent levels.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 1800 m2
Built Surface: 6200 m2
Typology: Mix Use
Date: June 2016
Architecture Team: Carlos Rivas, Silvia Serafini, Laura Rabago, Arnoldo Rabago, Alberto Gonzalez

Located in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, emerges as a stroke compensation urban design neutralizes an unfavorable orientation and turning the formal elements into useful views of the perimeter. In addition to the integration of the movement of formal axes, the displacement of volumes in response to the topographic inclination as well as the response to the vials and green elements as insets program, forms the emplacement or stroke of two towers of 19 to 20 levels each, integrating approximately 60 apartments each.
Concentrating the units to more flattering views, the transparency of the towers is restricted to areas of social integration moving away the circulation and services areas to areas of less possibility.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 60,000m2
Built Surface: 54000m2
Typology: Residential
Date: 2015
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Silvia Serafini, Carlos Rivas, Alberto Gonzales

Generated through the integration of the architectural program into the environment conservation areas natural area on transformed creating a transition from natural element into the house through volumes of maximum exposure to the outside, which was later embroiled complementary character spaces is deferred which pose a private function and relationship to the outside completely introverted.

Location: Zapopan, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 850m2
Built Surface: 600m2
Typology: House-room
Date: 2016
Architecture Team: RACO
Engineering: Sergein, DittuBau

Through the specific distinction and separation of medical and research specialties, topographic reading is sought to arrive at the distinction of the components that make up the different planes, the dynamics generated by the geometry of the architectural program integrating the complex.

Location: Tlajomulco, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 15000m2
Built Surface: 22000m2
Typology: Health Care
Date: October 2010
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Julio Gutierrez, Monica de Alba
Engineering: Alba

Based on a human rehabilitation program, the building seeks through the conformation of different wings, a center of natural recreation, linked to green areas and recreational green spaces inside the building.
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With more than 42 beds, the center seeks to generate a human ecosystem isolated from the outside that allows patients to isolate all external influences.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 16,000m2
Built Surface: 12000m2
Typology: Health Care
Date: September 2013
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Julio Gutierrez, Monica de Alba

In response to the different perimeter restrictions of the site, the project places a movement of decentralized volumes that projects the influence of the vial slope towards the intersection, manifesting different recreational spaces in roofs resulting from the solidification of the volume towards the road juncture.

The project in its location exhibits a primary volume as a base of commercial front and exhibition which incorporates a series of accesses divided between commercial and housing which is completely separated from the main facade, giving access and circulation to the residential program through a space of triple heights which connect amenities of the tower to specific walks and accesses of each residential level.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 2400 m2
Built Surface: 7400m2
Typology: Housing
Date: October 2017
Architecture Team: Carlos Rivas, Silvia Serafini, Ines Gonzalez Luna, Laura Rabago, Arnoldo Rabago, Alberto Gonzalez, Ramon Nuno
Engineering: DittaBau

Housing Project, takes primary criteria a formal translation in the integration of a vertical language as a system of lightened concrete slabs that form a facade system, which in turn through the masonry of the main facades, it´s achieved through a single construction module.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 500m2
Built Surface: 2500m2
Typology: Housing
Date: February 2014
Architecture Team: RACO

Based on the great importance of the North orientation and predominant views of the site towards the lowest topography of Las Cañadas, the house induces a central inner space in the form of a courtyard which redistributes the main lighting of the House, concluding in Open spaces to the north.

Incorporating a set of spaces and private bedrooms the enclosure distinguishes spaces for public and private use through a zoning that is structured through the separation of spaces linked to the central element, which in turn opens the space completely to the predominant views of the venue integrating recreational areas and social use.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 1200 m2
Built Surface: 600m2
Typology: Housing
Date: February 2017
Architecture Team: Carlos Rivas, Silvia Serafini, Laura Rabago, Arnoldo Rabago, Alberto Gonzalez
Engineering: DittaBau

Through the overlapping of programmatic volumes you get to reach the abstraction of a functional intersection of an architectural program, which is manifested in its foreign and materialized according the integration of the environment into organic materials and modular concrete structure.
Location: Tlajomulco, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 380m2
Built Surface:
Typology: Residential House
Date: 2016
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Alberto Gonzalez
Engineering: DittuBau

Throughout an organic path, technological discoveries that were linked to the media are incorporated for decades, which in turn they project the critical points of transcendence confirmed through a fluid and dynamic space that simulates the different accidents through a timeline.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 800m2
Built Surface: 800m2
Typology: Museum
Date: November 2010
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago

Due to the pronounced slope of the site, a series of platforms are linked with virtue of generating a parallelism of the built to the natural topography of the land, which in turn distinguishes through its different levels of use a final integration to Low plane of the property in relation to the forest and golf course.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 1200 m2
Built Surface: 600m2
Typology: Housing
Date: September 2017
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Silvia Serafini, Alberto Gonzalez.
Engineering: Alba Ingenierías

Located within an important road juncture, the building belongs and responds to the urban integration manifesting the expression and the speed of the road node under the torsion of its volumes that express the different views of the property.

Integrating the different halls, the enclosure through high-altitude vestibules redistributes a series of complementary spaces to the specific operation that they are related in privacy levels, from the splice with the outside to Private rest spaces in the highest and privileged views of the project.

Location: Bajío, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 15000m2
Built Surface: 8000m2
Typology: Institucional
Date: Febuary 2014
Architecture Team: Carlos Rivas, Ivan Cedillo, Julio Gutierrez, Silvia Serafini, Alberto Gonzales
Engineering: Cautin, Sergein

Located in one of the busiest areas of the city, it seeks the integration of a recreational green element within the urban sprawl. Inspired by its physiognomy and location, the project integrates the main urban axes in circulation nodes that materializes in an organic, joint and tangential form, a pavilion with 5 rooms dedicated to the elements of nature and the education of our city to conservation of them.

In the same way the spaces resulting from the integration of urban axes concludes in the distinction of different gardens with themes of colors that would allow the proposal of the species according to the different seasons of the year.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 12,000m2
Built Surface: 600m2
Typology: Cultural
Date: January 2012
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago

Alocated through the topographical inclination of the site, and distributed in order of orientations a series of axis are divided in the utilization of buildings of higher level with respect to the views of the property.

Through a depuration of the architecture of the area, the simplification of the architectural typology is abstracted in a system of continuous roofs that move in tandem with the topography generating terraces and a clear hierarchy of rooms which they understand in relation to a particular level of privacy.

Location: Cuernavaca, México
Site Area: 15000m2
Built Surface: 8000m2
Typology: Hospitality
Date: Octubre 2016
Architecture Team: Julio Gutierres, Ivan Cedillo, Carlos Rivas, Silvia Serafini, Laura Rabago, Arnoldo Rabago.
Engineering: Cautin, Sergein.

As a conceptual base the program finds the distinction of 3 primary buildings or cells that grant the possibility of a discernment of the public appropriate to assigned areas, which in turn and based on the conceptual form inspired by the physiognomy of the Mothers Cells.
They intersperse and distinguish their separate functions, leaving between them a system of communications and services that allow the perfect distinction of them in so much as to their operational areas and exterior green areas that works as a fabric of integration to the grid and urban function.

Location: Bajío, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 30000m2
Built Surface: 65000m2
Typology: Health Care
Date: Octubre 2016
Architecture Team: Julio Gutierrez, Ivan Cedillo, Carlos Rivas, Silvia Serafini, Laura Rabago, Arnoldo Rabago.
Engineering: Cautin, Sergein.

Conformed through the topographic accident that attends the property, the building forms an angular floor plan that represents the resulting reverse angle of the visual cone that exists towards the bay. Same that in turn makes up the placement of rooms that is planted as the highest volume towards the main vitalities, leaving the service spaces and recreation in further areas, producing private spaces due to the great unevenness in which they are located.

Location: Acapulco, Guerrero, México.
Site Area: 6,000m2
Built Surface:12000M2
Typology: Hotel
Date: February 2012
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Alberto Gonzalez, Silvia Serafini, Carlos Rivas
Engineering: Cautin, Sergein

Through the integration of a vertical language, the towers seek through their orientation the integrity of the sunlight and recreational spaces per floor. These are manifested as a consequence of the opening of the system of vertical facades, which in turn confirms the privacy and isolation of the spaces dedicated to a private program or restricted to the exterior.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 4000m2
Built Surface: 16000m2
Typology: Residential
Date: April 2015
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Silvia Serafini, Alberto Gonzalez, Nestor Garcia, Carlos Rivas, Laura Rabago
Engineering: DittuBau

As a main principle, the inclusion of two new buildings within a set of 5 existing towers, through the implosion of the central element and the generation of a double bay of spaces that allows the homologation of an element in the form of “L” which in turn seeks through the integration of a system of bands on the facade, the horizontal integration of development in search of a stable and contemporary language.

Location: Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, México
Estimated Surface: 74,000m2
Use type: Commercial
Completion Date: March 2013
Architect: Arnoldo Rabago, Julio Gutierrez, Carlos Rivas, Alberto Gonzalez,
Ramon Nuno, Laura Rabago, Silvia Serafini
Engenieering: Cautin, Sergein

Located in one of the busiest avenues of the place, it seeks for the integration of the existent concrete infrastructure, manifesting through the different levels, the veiling rooms which in turn place their income through a completely introverted space in the back of the property.

Location: Acapulco, Mexico
Site Area: 2000m2
Built Surface: 4000m2
Typology: Institucional
Date: August 2015
Architecture Team: Armando Martinez, Julio Gutierrez, Arnoldo Rabago
Engenieering: Sergein

The interpretation of a continuous symbol that feeds the architectural program, it manifests through the formal conformation of a tribeca the location of the different veiling rooms that are connected through a large foyer in the center or juncture marked as a formal continuity manifested through the analogy of the conceptual symbol.

Location: Bajío, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 4,000m2
Built Surface: 6000m2
Typology: Institutional
Date: July 2014
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Carlos Rivas, Julio Gutierrez, Silvia Serafini
Engineering: Cautin, Sergein

As part of the integration of the DLR complex, three different uses of the Architectural program are proposed, which integrates an office building, a shopping center with a Casino and a Hotel. As part of the commercial route, they seek the integration of the urban grid by opening their interiors to the urban route, as well as projecting their shape to the rear that elevates the program of the tower that makes up the hotel with a SKy Bar on its Summit.
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Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 23000m2
Built Surface: 45000m2
Typology: Mix Used
Date: 2009
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Julio Gutierrez, Monica de Alba
Engineering: Cautín

Exposing a series of entry places towards the future master plan that will contemplate a hotel and a commercial area, the relationship history extends including itself as an integral fiber.

Location: Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico.
Site Area: 26,000m2
Built Surface: 45000m2
Typology: Comercial
Date: 2009
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago

A simplification of the architectural program in simple geometries that allows an interpellation and linkage of program to geometry, opening double height spaces on their joints and access squares.

Location: Suecia
Site Area: 18,000m2
Built Surface: 22000m2
Typology: Insitucional
Date: 2009
En colaboración con DAMNOV (Neli Dami)
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Neil Dami

Based on the integration of the different visual planes, the form generates an integration of the elongation of the limiting axes of the stage, which are extended on a continuous surface that simplifies the interior of the space in an organic form.

Planes and angles of rebound are integrated to the simulation of a continuity of the sound waves to the different planes of the space, integrating different platforms with visual and a clear hierarchical organization that compromises the space in a structure of Artistic performance.

Location: Bajío, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Typology: Cultural
Date: November 2012
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago.

Multipurpose complex that combines a Shopping Center, the corporate building of City Bank, a Hotel and Ritz Carlton Residences.
These programs are related in a way that the Urban grid has a frontal access and an influence towards the center of the property where two towers of approximately 30 levels rises.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 23,000m2
Built Surface: 15000m2
Typology: Mix Use
Date: 2007
En colaboración con DAMNOV (Neil Dami).
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Neil Dami

As a result of a digital simulation of the specific flows and destinations of the JVC master plan, the history of this negotiation is simplified in three-dimensional flow lines that integrate layers of urban elements through an induced urban fabric (grid).

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 7500m2
Built Surface:
Typology: Comercial
Date: 2009
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago

As a result of this expression, a series of open-air roofed spaces are generated which integrate recreational areas, terraces and spaces of social use that in turn are linked with outer space.

Location: Bajío, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 800m2
Built Surface: 600m2
Typology: Housing
Date: Octubre 2014
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago, Julio Gutiérrez, Monica de Alba
Engineering: Alba Ingenierias

Through the dissolution of the ground level the mausoleum induces an underground experience that dissolves the earth plane to a spiritual one that is manifested in the center of its radial plant as an element that transcends to the outside.

This element is later named as the Tree of Life, which serves as the central element of the distribution square that continues with perimeter rings of urns, which in turn return to the central element and therefore to the entrance and exit of the enclosure.

Location: Bajío, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 1500m2
Built Surface: 600m2
Typology: Institutional
Date: Febrero 2014
En colaboración con Massoud Puzzet.
Architecture Team: Rodrigo Sanz, Arnoldo Rabago, Julio Gutiérrez.
Engineering: Cautín.

Influenced by the vertical fall of the topography, its geometry contrasts this force, placing four levels that progressively face the cliff. Generating views towards the ravine the building shows the history of its progression by interpolating different exhibition and recreation spaces that are linked through different double heights.

Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Site Area: 2000m2
Built Surface:
Typology: Institutional
Date: 2006
Architecture Team: Arnoldo Rabago
Engineering: Cautin