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San José Station in Toluca de Lerdo
5 Mar 2021
San José Station
Architecture: FRPO
Location: Toluca, Mexico
The new mixed-use infrastructure ?Estación San José?, by FRPO, becomes the new cultural, econo

FRPO, an international architecture office based in Madrid, has designed Estación San José, a new mixed-use infrastructure in Toluca de Lerdo, the capital city of Estado de Mexico. The complex is located at the northern end of Avenida Juárez, which links the historic district with the university area. This new construction arises as an opportunity to concentrate the dispersed activity around this area and to create a new cultural, economic and activity pole, both at local and metropolitan levels.
The facility will act as a social condenser and revitalize the center of one of the cities of the most populated region of the country. A design that arises from the conditions ?high building density? and from the possibilities ?privileged location and dialogue with heritage – offered by the environment in which it is located, as well as from the multiple and apparently incompatible programmatic requirements.

Hence, the solution consists of organizing a flexible structure that allows the repetition and superposition of plans. This strategy multiplies the street level surface to host multiple activities: parking, offices, co-working spaces, cultural spaces, commercial areas R...