AA315 Single Family House

Mexico City, Mexico

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AA315 Single Family House

Mexico City, Mexico

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BLANCASMORAN
Bernardi + Peschard Arquitectura

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2017

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET

Undisclosed

Project: AA315 House - Single Family House.
Location: Mexico City. Mexico

BERNARDI + PESCHARD / BLANCASMORAN
Project Team: Alejandro Bernardi Gallo, Beatriz Peschard Mijares , Abel Blancas Morán

Photographs : Rafael Gamo
Lighting Design : Luz en Arquitectura/Kai Diederichsen
Structural Design: Alonso Asociados/Javier Alonso
Landscape Design : Entorno Taller de Paisaje/Hugo Sanchez, Tonatiuh Martínez
Woodworks: Grupo Hagan/ Simon Hamui
Completion :2017

The AA315 single family house is located in the west of Mexico City and is part of a third generation of architectural interventions in a residential neighborhood created in the 1930s.

When the client acquired the plot , a house from the 50´s occupied the center of the site. After evaluating different scenarios the client decided to demolish the existing building and commission a new project.

After the demolition of the existing building, the 60 year old trees surrounding the previous house were revealed , dictating together with the orientation of the plot, the L-Shape of the project. At this stage we decided to exploit this condition and agreed with the client to design a house that could open and live as much as possible to the green exterior, aiming to create , in the words of our client, a garden with a house instead of a house with a garden.

The architectural brief is organized in three levels.

Level 1: Social areas at the ground level ( living room , dining room, family room, terrace, toilet , kitchen and lobby).
Level 2: Private areas on the 1st level ( Master Bedroom, Bedrooms, Guest Room, TV room)
Level -1: Services on the underground level ( Laundry room, garage, gym , technical areas)

As per our agreement with the client, all the programme in Level 1 is open to the garden. Only specific areas like the dining room , the family Room, the Kitchen that require a specific degree of privacy and containment are enclosed in volumes. The rest of the programme takes place on a concrete platform sitting gently on the grass. This platform serves as concourse, entrance lobby, living room and terrace where the space flows freely connecting the interior space with the garden.

The main stair of the house is located in the double height corner of the L-Shape serving as a connection between the social and private areas of the house.

The Level 2 takes advantage of the L-Shape to divide the private areas in 3 sections. The left wing is occupied by the Master Bedroom with the bath room and dressing room, the right with is occupied by the 2 bedrooms and the TV room and the corner of the L-Shape is occupied by the stair lobby and Guest Room.
This arrangement guaranteed the privacy of the bedrooms and created a meeting point for the family in the crossing of the 2 wings.

Materials:

Our client requested a palette with low maintenance materials so we decided to go for natural stones and timber in different degrees of character:

Base layer of the house ( structure) : Exposed white concrete
1 level floor concourse layer: Basaltina stone
1 level floor layer for enclosed spaces: Walnut
1 level enclosed volumes walls : Travertine Marble
1 level dinning room interior , living room book case : Larch

Stair: Lacquer

2 level floor layer for bedrooms : Walnut
2nd Level master bedroom and bathroom details : Ebony, Black Ebony, Calacatta Marble.