About Us
AE GAYARANDA is a Mexico City-based urban design and architecture studio. Founded in 2003, our goal is to produce final designs that emphasize the integration of architecture with the urban and natural environment. We are an interdisciplinary team whose strength lies in analyzing the needs of our clients and optimizing the use of available resources.
Environmental, social, cultural and economic sustainability are central to everything we do. We aim to use architecture to address common issues and benefit society at large, an approach that we have applied to projects for the development of the tourism industry and the economy, the design of master plans on an urban scale, mixed-use buildings, sustainable schools, hospitals, hotels, housing complexes and residential homes.
Our mission is to leave our clients tangible legacies, and bring people, cultures, ideas and disciplines together by creating meaningful, life-changing projects.
Our Team
Biography
Ana Elena studied Architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and has a Master’s from the UPC in Spain. She also studied at La Sorbonne in France and at MIT edX and Harvard edX. She was a member of the Carmen Pinós team in Barcelona and the Enrique Norten team in Mexico.
In 2003, she founded AE GAYARANDA Arquitectura y Diseño Urbano S.C. in Mexico City.
Ana Elena and her team have designed a wide range of hotel, corporate, residential, mixed-use and housing projects, and are considered experts in the design of hospitals and healthcare centers. The studio undertakes urban and architectural design master planning to foster economic growth by promoting tourism in established tourism centers.
In 2013, with the support of the Mexican embassy in Singapore, ProMéxico, the local Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Center for Livable Cities (CLC), Ana Elena conducted field research in Singapore, which she then used to draw up a sustainable social and urban development model known as ECOBARRIO: environmental awareness + social awareness.
In 2014, in her capacity as a UN-Habitat consultant, she and her studio compiled the Environmental Psychology chapter of Centros de Justicia para las Mujeres: Lineamientos Arquitectónicos (Justice Centers for Women: Architectural Guidelines), which describes how to use architectural design to positively impact the psychological state of women living in conditions of vulnerability.
Infrastructure projects include a large railway station project that was selected as a finalist in the World Architecture Awards 2021 .
She is a full member of the Mexico City College of Architects.
ANA ELENA GAYARANDA
FOUNDER – CEO
MEXICAN ARCHITECT
Projects
Architecture
“Architecture is a process in which function goes hand-in-hand with aesthetics and that must be integrated with the urban and natural landscape in order to be truly sustainable; this is how we optimize the relationship between the user and their environment in the projects we design”.
Corporate / mixed-use
Tourism
Hospitals
Educaction / Social Benefit
Residential
Interiors
Urban Design
Urban projects that propose both the tourist and economic potentialization of the areas to be intervened as well as their urban and social regeneration through the creation of trigger projects to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants.
Chile
Tlaxcala
Zumpango
Publications
AE GAYARANDA has various publications in national and international magazines and books, among which the following stand out:
Expo cihac
Ana Elena Gayaranda, expression of organic and sensory architecture
RadioFórmula.mx
Mayan Train: these are the architects who designed the stations
Centro Urbano
The work of Mexican architects stands out in Mayan Train stations
The Yucatan times
Mexican women architects in charge of the Maya Train urban design
Real Estate
Mexican architects star in urban design of the Mayan Train
Obras
AE GAYARANDA will do the architectural design of the Mayan Train in Chichén Itzá.
Negocios promexico 2016
Ana Elena GayAranda: The Kind Face of Architecture
Obras 523
Technology and Sustainability, the Seal of Private Hospitals
ONU Habitat 2015
ONU HABITAT Women’s Justice Centers
Exkema 50
Where Are We Regarding Social Inclusion and Accessibility?
Exkema 46
The Subtle Power of Architecture and Urbanism to Transform Lives
Habitat 2010
5 Slopes in Interior Architecture. Interview and work by Ana Elena Gayaranda
Anuario ATK 2009
Hospital Ángeles Lindavista Exclusive Publication of the Work
Habitat 2008
Feminine Sensitivity. Hospitals and Restaurants
December-January
Inmobiliare 2008
About AE GAYARANDA
Pages: 98-99.
Alcaldes de México
How to Humanize Cities Through Innovation
Arquitek 2008
Residential Interiors
Cumbres House, TG House, El Refugio House
October – December
Casas, casonas y hoteles
Houses, Mansions and Hotels by Architects in Mexico, 1997
Detalles en la arquitectura
Details in Mexican Architecture, 1996 Kamali Comex Shoe Store
Mujer ejecutiva
The Advantages of being a Woman in Architecture
Tequieroverde
Sustainable Projects for Education
Conacyt
Innovative Cities:
Humanized Cities
Conferences
Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas
Master Conference
Recent Work
Chiapas College of Architects
Morelia, michoacan, mex.
Three Visions of Sustainability
Tlaxcala, Iquique and Yucatán
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
The Search for Sustainability in the Contemporary City.
Bogota, Colombia
Contemporary Mexican Architecture.
Saltillo, Coah. Mex.
International Forum
“Efficient schemes of urban and environmental planning of the territory”.
MTY, NL. Mex.
Entrepreneurship Festival “Humanized Cities”
Leon, Gto., Mex.
“Happy Cities”
CDMX, Mexico
“Participation of Women Entrepreneurs in Foreign Trade”
Viña del Mar, Chile
“Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development”
CDMX, México
“Inclusive and Accessible Cities for People with Disabilities”
Iquique, Chile
“Sustainable Development of the Regional Capital to Potentiate Tourism”
Bogotá, Colombia
“ECOBARRIO – Sustainable Urban Solution”
Lima, PerÚ
LAB4+: Innovation as an Engine of Social Inclusion.
“Innovative Cities”
CDMX, Mexico
Leading Businesswomen of the Pacific Alliance 2015.
“The key to internationalization”
Awards
WAF 2021 World Architecture Festival
Finalist, Infrastructure Category: Future Projects.
Chichen Itza Train Station and Cultural Center.
22 Líderes 2018
Architecture Leader Award.
Mundo Ejecutivo Group.
Iberoamerican CIDI Award to the Excellence 2011
Consejo Iberoamericano de Diseño
“For her profesional trajectory. Gold Medal“.
Iberoamerican CIDI Award to the Work of the Year in Architecture
Interiors and Interior Design Building for the Angeles Hospitals.
Gold Medal
V International Biennal CIDI Architecture, Design and Art.
Gold Medal
IV Forum: Women in the Architecture and Interior Design.
Clients
Contact Us
AE Gayaranda
Monte Elbruz 132 piso 6 - 604
Lomas de Chapultepec 11000
Ciudad de México
