Mexico City is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and effervescent cities on the cultural and architectural scene in recent decades. Various authors have positioned it inside and outside the country through projects that make up a meeting platform for the creative community. LAGO/ALGO is part of the list of those resilient spaces that emerged from the pandemic, with the need to reimagine our current context by rethinking how we relate to the public and private space having the iconic Chapultepec Forest as a stage, an 810-hectare urban park that is divided into four sections which harbor some of the most important tourist sites in Mexico.
In addition, the Bosque de Chapultepec has three artificial lakes, one of them faces this cultural space whose history dates back to 1964 by the director of works of Mexico City at that time, Leónides Guadarrama who commissioned the architect Alfonso Ramírez Ponce to design a restaurant on the lake following the trend of modernist innovation of architects such as Mies van de Rohe and Félix Candela (UNAM professor in Ramírez Ponce's fourth-semester structure class), with this in mind he designed an immense asymmetric roof of concrete with a hyperbolic paraboloid shape.
