[citation needed] Her designs involve sensitivity to context and environment, combining an adequate selection of materials from the regions where his creations are established, as well as incorporating the best available technology.
[8] Some of her most important works are: In 2012 the architectural firm by Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo developed the project of the San Pablo Academic and Cultural Center in the center of the city of Oaxaca, whose enclosure is located in what used to be the Monastery of Santo Domingo "San Pablo", built in the sixteenth century.
The work on a 700 m2 glass pavilion that connects three levels stands out: the enclosure's library with its reading room, the administrative and management spaces, as well as an exhibition and archive area.
[9] This project included a stained glass window and exterior bars designed by the Oaxacan artist Francisco Toledo.
The first are Las Trojes, pre-Hispanic houses in the region of the Purépecha people of Angahuan; the second reference is the ceremonial space Tzin Tzun Tzan, which is reflected in the use of glass-transparency and holes that allow to create an atmosphere of spaciousness and freedom.
In this regard, she has expressed: “I think a lot about the limits, about how to break the public from the private (…) about how to frame or highlight the things that exist, whether it is a tree or a stone, about.
Gabriela Carrillo uses materials and light design to create messages and atmospheres that impact the way people communicate within these spaces.
Therefore, for these Courts in Pátzcuaro, he has commented that he took special care in different aspects of design: “(...) how light deconstructs and builds a space, how transparency and open things generate democracy, how architecture begins let's talk... ”[11] This project was recognized with the International Women in Architecture Award in 2017, which was also received in the same edition by Rozana Montiel.
It has also been recognized with the Silver Medal at the XIII Biennial of Mexican Architecture (2014), with the First Place of the CEMEX Award in the Social Impact category (2013), the Works award, in the Interior Design category, by the Library de Débiles Visuales in Mexico City (2013) and the Silver Medal at the Mexico City Biennial.