Casa Gálvez

Leon, Mexico

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Casa Gálvez

Leon, Mexico

Firm

estudio Villagálvez

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2025

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

$100K - 500K

Casa Gálvez is located in a densely urbanized environment, surrounded by residential and industrial fabric. However, the site borders a green area that brings unusual value: open views, mature trees—such as a flamboyant tree (Delonix regia) and a eucalyptus—and the constant presence of foliage in the project’s daily life.
From the exterior, the flamboyant tree becomes the first architectural gesture: a threshold tree guiding the entrance. Access is provided through a contemporary zaguán—a covered, vertically proportioned space—where exposed concrete and a circular oculus in the slab create an intermediate atmosphere between indoors and outdoors, allowing light to outline the silhouette of the tree and inviting one to look upward.
Beyond this threshold, the space expands suddenly into a double-height volume that evokes—through a contemporary lens—the symbolic structure of a Mexican troje (traditional barn). Here, that sheltering space transforms into the social heart of the house: a floating wooden volume that contains the kitchen and dining room on the ground floor, and a TV room and study on the upper floor. This “suspended troje” articulates the home’s collective uses and establishes spatial continuity between levels, sustained by height, light, and the crossing of views.
The rest of the program is organized into a compact volume arranged like a small tower that concentrates bedrooms and service areas. Surrounded by patios, this volume opens or closes depending on orientation, the need for cross ventilation, or required privacy, establishing an active relationship with its immediate surroundings.
The central patio plays an essential role. It functions as a bioclimatic device—enabling natural ventilation and solar control throughout the day—and as a contemplative space: its walls safeguard privacy while allowing tree canopies to dominate the interior landscape, creating an atmosphere of calm and connection with nature.
The volumetric composition is structured around three main bodies:
• The entrance volume, in dialogue with the scale of the flamboyant tree.
• The social volume, open and generous in height.
• The private volume, more closed and modulated.
These volumes are linked through curved lines and an earthy-textured base, generating a transition between the organic nature of the terrain and the architectural geometry.
Casa Gálvez proposes a living experience that is simple, fluid, and efficient, yet also contemplative—an architecture that is not immediately revealed from the outside, but instead unfolds gradually through pores, shadows, and pathways, finding in the landscape and in the memory of traditional Mexican home a new way of living it.

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Casa Gálvez

Leon, Mexico

Casa Gálvez

Leon, Mexico

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