- Name of building
- Bacardi y Cia
- Construction year
- 1960
- Structural system
- Shell
- Primary use
- Bottling Plant / Factory
- Architect
- Saenz Cancio Martin Alvarez Gutierrenz
- Architect2
- Felix Candela
- Structural engineer
- Felix Candela/Consulting Engineer : Luis Torres Landa.
- Constructor
- Professional
- Cubiertas Ala S.A.
- Country
- MEXICO
- Address
- Autopista Mex-Qro. 4431, Tultitlan, Estado de Mexico.
- Means of transportation
- Autobus to tultitlan from Estacion de Metyo Cuarto Caminos.(Linea-2).
Taxi is available at the station. - Admission
- Outside : NO Inside : NO
An appointment is necessary in advance. - Reference
- ①Felix Candela, Supervisor; Yutaka Saito, Editor; Naomi Miwa..
Forewords; Felix Candela, Ove Arup, Frei Otto, Mamoru Kawagucxi, Riicht Miyake, Mutsuro Sasaki Published by TOTO Shuppan, Tokyo on August 10,1995, pp.136-159. Japanese Language
②IASS Bulletin No.71+72, September 1979, p.27-38, Fig.31-34.
Notes for History The development of thin shells in Mexico, by Felix Candela.
③IASS Bulletin No.88, August 1985,p.5-10. Fig.6.
Felix Candela and structural art, by David P. Billington.
④Builder in The Sun, Five Mexican Architects, Clive Bamford Smith, Architectural Book Publishing Co,, Inc. NY,1967,p.106.
⑤Arquitectos Contemporaneos de Mexico, Louise Noelle, Editorial Trillas, Mexico, D. F. 2nd Edition, 1993. p.31.
⑥Candela/The Shel1 Builder, Colin Faber, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, NY,1963, p.184. - Note
- Structural system:Shell,RC
Photo taken on February 14,1995. ③-85.
@Span:30m x length:30m.
Originally nine of 30x30m shells were built. Now six of them are remaining.
The owner of Cubiertas Ala S.A. is Félix Candela.
