The Animà Village design team conceived a neighborhood designed to be walkable and have a human scale, characterized by strong public space and abundant vegetation.
This village is structured around six terracotta pavilions and six outdoor plazas. These elements are interspersed with rich gardens, which have been adapted to the desert conditions, offering shade, cooling, and thermal comfort in an environment where temperatures can reach 36 °C.
The plazas of Ánima Village lead to Arte Abierto Baja, which functions as an open and sunken gallery under the sky, surrounded by stone walls taken directly from the terrain itself. The interaction between the earth and the architecture is maintained in a state of tension, presenting itself as a single gesture.
The discretion of the structure reinforces the project's focus on accessibility and openness, encouraging both scheduled visits and unplanned encounters. In this place, art, landscape, and climate converge, making the act of exhibition a spatial and sensory experience deeply connected to the location.
Arte Abierto Baja provides the region with something unusual: a space for cultural reflection, distant from the predominant commercial atmosphere. It was inaugurated with a work by Abraham Cruzvillegas, serving simultaneously as a celebration and a contribution to the community, as mentioned by Javier Sordo Madaleno De Haro.
Overall, the Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos office applied a methodology at Animà Village aimed at inserting an organic and permeable urban landscape into an area that has suffered damage due to disorganized urban expansion and the proliferation of gated communities in recent years.