SI31 San Ildefonso Street Housing in Mexico City, Development, Mexican Building, Architecture Images
SI31 San Ildefonso Street Housing in Mexico City
30 Oct 2022
Architects: Boue Arquitectos
Location: San Ildefonso Street, Mexico City, Mexico

Photos: Marcos Betanzos
SI31, México
SI31 is an architecture revitalization project by Boue Arquitectos is located in the heart of Mexico City´s historic center, right on San Ildefonso Street. It is a four-level building that has been intervened with the purpose of reactivating its ground floor, rehabilitating exhaustively its interiors, rescuing its façade and integrating ?with its use and the floating population that it will attract? new dynamics to its immediate context, which is characterized by its high commercial and tourist activity, an extraordinary cultural offer and an unprecedented historical relevance.
The project, by reappearing and resuming its housing vocation, seeks to contribute to the revaluation of its urban landscape and the strategic initiatives that have been taking place in it, through pedestrianization, mobility and public space recovery projects. Its privileged location, filled to the brim with an endless number of buildings belonging to different architectonic styles adds to the national monument archeological sites and ?must see? tourist sites that recount the identity of our country over time. The gastronomic offer, museums, bookstores and the atmosphere of a unique historical center frames the experien...