At the center we find a great track where dances are held inside the restaurant and ceremonies due to the gathering of people in the place.Īt the shelter, but stand to the side walls containing independent restaurant services, such as kitchens, toilets, lobby access, etc.

Under this is the living room or great room which houses a restaurant with tables and chairs in the part where the segments are raised to make way for metal works. The result was a kind of lily-like float with about 42 m in diameter and 25x30m paraboloids at the beginning of its development, with a maximum height of 8.25my that inside is reduced to 5.90 m natural. The decision to fire was the design of a circular dome, formed by the intersection of eight segments from the meeting of four hyperbolic paraboloid (surface similar to that of a saddle horse) Nativitas 16450, Mexico, D.F.ĭuring the twentieth century, Xochimilco was (and remains) a place of recreation for the inhabitants of Mexico City that Sunday to Sunday strolling through the channels in so-called “trajineras” (wooden boats) by the lake of the same site, lingering with the floating gardens that exist here.Ĭandela did not want to clash with tradition and beauty that nature gave to this place, so he decided to propose a building with features that they might be involved in these gardens, as an object that floats from its structure, resembling a flower lotus floating on the water, achieves this effect Octagonal in plan formed by the intersection of four hyperbolic paraboloid, another notable example of this structural family beautiful and has inspired many architects in their designs.Ĭalz. This place poses for the creation of a thousand local people with a dining room by replacing a previous one that had been destroyed by fire years earlier.įélix Candela experiment with all sorts of combinations triangular, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal, perhaps this is the most famous of these. The place is known for having one of the major sources of fresh water to supply the city. This building is located in Xochimilco is considered a very significant to have their origins in pre-Hispanic period to the present day Mexico City.

Felixe candela restaurant