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2017 In progress
with Hugo Alcalá
450 m2
Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico
This project takes two luxurious and modern types of rooms inside of contemporary Mexican cities and juxtapose them ontop a typical rural house in Mexico.
It is constructed by using natural and recycled materials mixed with regional traditional and modern construction techniques. By using the length created by adding the north curve to the depth of the site, we designed conceptually a walkway with 2 houses - one on top of the other - that share the same roof.
The house downstairs uses a wall to enclose itself. This way it creates its own oasis. The utilities are hidden inside an 11 ft cube made out of stone. This volume, helps define a semi-rectangular platform which contains all interior public activities, the use of sliding glass allows the activities to extend into the exterior. There, the walkway articulates the north and south sides of the site, this creates the pedestrian interaction in both entrances.
The house upstairs moves 6’ east and accommodates, on top of the stone walls and metallic stilts, a luxury hotel room, and a loft type room - both for the living - connected by a elevated extension of the entertainment area downstairs. Both rooms upstairs operate individually as private containers that share leisure and social areas.