Situated on a plot of land 10 meters in front by 26 meters long, the house is set back five meters from the street for garden and parking. A ramp serves as a linear path to the access.
The ground floor is the public area: Hall, courtesy bathroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, terrace, garden and service area.
Upstairs is the private part of the project, it consists of two bedrooms and a bathroom facing north and a master bedroom with dressing room and bathroom, this bedroom is at the south end and communicates with the other two through a corridor that borders the double height of the room
The main facade is composed of three elements: a concrete wall modulated at 1.22x 2.44 meters, punctured by holes of different dimensions, these make the heavy wall a conductor of air and light.
Above the concrete wall, a protruding volume topped by a corresponding corrugated red wall.
This dominance of the brick wall gives the facade an aspect, cryptic, introverted, raising an enigma that is only resolved on the inside.
Project: CasaRoja
Designer: Hans Kabsch Vela
Collaborators. Rosa Marina Maldonado Méndez
Construction: Rulberto Mendez, Rigoberto lópez Aguilar
Built area: 243 m2
Place: Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.
Date: 2014
Photographs: Onnis Luque R.