CENTRO CULTURAL ROBERTO CANTORAL | BROISSINarchitects

Poject name: CENTRO CULTURAL ROBERTO CANTORAL
Project location: Coyoacán, México D.F.
Owner: Sociedad de Autores y Compositores de México
President Armando Manzanero Canché
Managing Director Roberto Cantoral Zucchi
Opening: June 7, 2012
Mentions: WAN Awards, Performing Spaces, Winner 2015, London, UK.
A’Design Awards 2014-2015, Gold Winner, Como, IT.
WAN London 2012 Awards Longlisted Project London, UK.
1st Prize "Obra del Año 2012" Edification Category. Mexico City, Mexico.

Architectural Design Company:
BROISSIN

Partner in Charge:
Gerardo Broissin

Project manager:
David Suárez

Project architects:
Mauricio Cristóbal
Rodrigo Jiménez
Alejandro Rocha

Team:
Enrique Guillén
Adrián Téllez
Gabriela Maldonado
Rubén Zepeda
Luis Muñoz
Erik Guzmán
José Luis Durán
Sara Villanueva
Elizabeth Salinas
Juan Manuel Vargas
Pamela Moreno

Structural Engineer
Manager: Armando Serralde Castrejón

Steel structure
Manager: Nabor Castillo

Air Conditioning, Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering
Company: Macinter

Acoustic design
Company: Saad Acústica
Manager: Omar Saad
George Augspurger (Recording Studio only)

HIGHLIGHTS

- 9287 sqm, 850 seats , 104 parking spaces for cars (persuading visitors to use other transportation media).

- 21 meters from the stage to the farther seat

- 1.05 meters between rows.

- Natural light inside the concert hall: saving annually 14,600kwh equal to 10 CO2 tons non emitted to atmosphere .

Roof-façade design:
- Saving annually 75,600kwh because of the reduction of the air conditioning usage.

Waterless urinals usage:
- Saving approximately 88,000 lts/ year.
- In case of using this 88,000lts, other 1,170,000lts will be needed to clean them. This is equal to the consumption of water for 1,600 persons during a year.

- Compared to other concert halls, because of the building design, every year, 64.7 tons of CO2 won´t be emitted to the atmosphere, 90,000kwh will be saved and 88,000lts of water won´t be used.

Variable acoustic system:
- Capable of adjusting the reverberation time from 1 to 1.5 seconds, being allowed to have all concert types indistinctly.