Eleven of the 13 architects who came up with original designs for the Pan American Games athletes’ village will be walking away from the project with a fat check, but not the chance to leave their stamp on Guadalajara.
Developers this week unveiled new plans for the village in downtown Guadalajara that will house 8,750 athletes during the 2011 games and then be converted into 800 private apartments.
By ditching the elaborate original plans for the village, Guadalajara city hall expects to save around 600 million pesos (45 million dollars). The 11 architects will be paid off to the tune of one million pesos each.
The new, more austere design will still be “first world” quality, said Bosco Gutierrez of Bosco Edificaciones, the company that recently won the right to build the complex bordering the rundown Morelos Park near the San Juan de Dios Market.
The architectural values of the village will encompass “harmony, simplicity and economy of scale,” he said.
The complex will feature ten buildings, dominated by a huge emblematic L-shaped construction that will hug one-and-a-half sides of the park. This nine-storey building will be 35 meters high and boast roof top gardens. It will be split into five blocks, each with their own entrance and elevators.
Once the games are over the apartments will be sold for between 600,000 and 1.2 million pesos each.
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