HW Studio Arquitectos has accomplished a cruciform home with open-air corridors and courtyards tucked between domestically quarried stone partitions in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Primarily based close by in Morelia, HW Studio Arquitectos completed the 250-square metre (2,690-square foot) home, named Casa Enso II, in 2022, drawing on vernacular designs, cultural expression and native historical past of the Guanajuato area.
Fifty-centimeter-thick sand-coloured stone partitions function each the defining characteristic and the organizational technique.
Organized in a cross, the partitions kind 4 quadrants, framing the areas and protect stone alleys for circulation.
“The dispersion of those areas forces a everlasting pilgrimage between areas,” mentioned lead architect Rogelio Vallejo Bores.
“It makes you come into contact with the earth, the air, and the mountain as if it had been an historical monastery, framing the panorama however on the identical time forming a pure a part of it.”
The southwest quadrant serves because the entry with a welcoming endemic backyard, whereas the northwest quadrant is reserved for parking, utilizing the prevailing timber to shade automobiles from the solar.
The centre of the plan is barely sunken into the earth, and the alleys and the encompassing land ramps will be accessed by way of stone stairways.
The northeast quadrant holds the one-bedroom dwelling. Organized in a bar plan, the oblong quantity separates public areas from personal ones with an inset quantity containing a toilet, dressing room, and repair area.
The stone partitions are damaged by practically invisible floor-to-ceiling glass that permits the heavy, single-plate roof and polished flooring to proceed exterior the envelope of the home and orient the rooms to the arid exterior panorama.
The ultimate quadrant holds a separate two-storey workplace area. The sq. kind is the one vertical aspect on the location and references the Santa BrÃgida mine in Mineral de Pozos. The block is punctured by an open-air linear window.
“We fancied the thought of seeing silhouettes from the surface as if performing in a play,” Bores mentioned. Probably the most outstanding window faces south and frames a view of the lengthy mountain of Santa Maria, a vital point of interest within the metropolis.
Specific consideration was paid to the allocation and set up of the stone, which was extracted solely 20 minutes from the agricultural website, Bores defined.
The restricted useful resource required the crew to be exact, orderly and environment friendly to satisfy the monetary and architectural expectations, in addition to generate a round economic system for the realm.
Along with the thermal mass of the stone partitions, photovoltaic panels scale back the house’s power consumption.
“Every part has a reference to the previous,” Bores mentioned. “This home relies on selections that need to do with basic fashionable structure blended with Mexican vernacular custom, routinely linking us to Luis Barragan in that sense.”
Comparatively, HW Studio additionally accomplished an angled home in Morelia that steps down a slope and defines areas with each gentle and darkish partitions.
The images is by César Béjar.
Mission credit:
Lead architect: Rogelio Vallejo Bores
Architects: Oscar Didier Ascencio Castro, Nik Zaret Cervantes Ordaz
Purchasers: Cem Turgu and Adriana Alegria
Furnishings: namuh, Luis Fernando Luna
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