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架构师提供的文本描述。2010年底，我们第一次在“格里森之家”(Gleason House)参观，发现了我们发现的东西，给我们带来了对瓜达拉哈拉(Guadalajara)建筑遗产未来的挫折感和绝望感。一个不受尊敬和无人照顾的财产，在没有任何尊重的情况下，在一个真正的消失过程中，远离上帝的手，远离那些“受过教育的人”。

Text description provided by the architects. Visiting it for the first time, back in the end of 2010, at what had been the “THE GLEASON HOUSE” and finding what we found, it brought upon us, feelings of frustration and desperation towards the future of the architectural patrimony in Guadalajara. A dishonored and unattended estate, treated without any respect whatsoever and in a true process of disappearance, far from the hand of God and much further from those of the “educated man”.

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这种挫折感开始转变为一种挑战，在一种新的希望感中，因为我们当时所看到的，它是市中心数百个房地产的共同分母。目前的挑战是，各种意义上的创造性、与当局的管理、建筑、技术和经济建议，因此，我们必须证明，尊重现有的、可拯救的或即将被消灭的东西是有可能工作和创造经济的。

This frustration started to transform into a challenge, in a new feeling of hope, because of what we saw at that moment, it is the common denominator of hundreds of estates and properties within downtown. The challenge was and still is, creativity in all the senses, the management with the authorities, the architectural, technical and economic proposal, therefore we had to demonstrate that it is possible to work and generate economy respecting the existing, the rescuable or what is soon to be extinguish.

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一旦我们和有关当局，特别是遗产部完成对每一项遗产的分析，我们就提出了初步的不灵活点。根据建筑参数，新楼必须建在现有的房子后面。它必须产生空气空间，一个与现有建筑的差距，说到当代线条，它的水平是一个重要的论点，由我们的意图，尊重实际的产业。结果是一座高楼，尽管只有四层楼。最后一个概念是产生垂直循环元素，以一个完全的“裸体”标准，其中正式的语言和使用钢作为一种新的材料在现场，联系我们通过对比详细的建筑，并在一定程度上完善了房子折衷的建议。

Once the analysis of each estate was concluded by us and the involved authorities, especially the Department of Heritage, we proposed initial inflexible points. The new building had to be put behind the existing house according to the construction parameters. It had to generate air space, a gap in relation to the existing constructions, to speak of contemporary lines, where its horizontality is an important argument, derived by our intention to respect the actual estate. The result was a tall building in spite of its only four levels. The last concept was to generate vertical circulation elements with a total “nudity” criteria, in which the formal language and the use of steel as a new material within the scene, linked us through the contrast of the detailed architecture and at a certain point refined the house eclectic proposal.

Architects Trama Arquitectos

Location Americana, Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico

Category Restoration

Architectural Project Jaime Castiello Chávez, Héctor Santana, Edgardo Sandoval, Carlos Haro, Jorge Ignacio Gutiérrez, Livier Miramontes, Héctor Lozano, Mario Rodríguez, Beatriz Orozco, Carmen Espinosa, Manuel Haro, Jaime Castiello Gómez Verea, Fernando Castiello, Miguel Martínez, Hugo Yáñez Ochoa, Susana Cortés, Juan Carlos Barriga

Area 875.0 sqm

Project Year 2012

Photographs Mito Covarrubias