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Casa 2G
Casa 2G
San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
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Other Projects by S-AR
Casa 2G
San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Project Featured on Feb 22, 2014
Casa 2G
is a 360 square
meter single family home designed by S-AR, an
architectural firm based in Monterrey,
Mexico.
The
house was designed as a sanctuary from the surrounding urban environment, as
well as a series of memorable architectural spaces with the people that live in
them at their conceptual core.
Casa 2G
creates sensory experiences and moments that enrich its inhabitant’s daily
lives, thanks in part to its sparse materiality and handmade features, which
pay tribute to the artisan work of local craftsmen. The nature of this space
contrasts with false ideas of human progress in a world dominated by
appearances and trends.
By
taking a morning tour of Casa 2-G, the viewers are able to experience those
special everyday moments spent in the house. As the windows open, we take in
the natural changes in the environment, and we witness the dialogue between the
house and the natural light as it evolves throughout the day.
Come
nightfall, the house opens up its spaces so that the light from the fire can
fill us with peace as it vibrates over the raw surfaces of its walls. In Casa
2G, ordinary routine is pleasantly interrupted, and transformed into memorable
moments of harmony and spiritual consciousness.
Proposed
as a basic house, the project is a simple rectangular volume with a courtyard
that divides the social from the private area. Located in a residential area,
the volume starts few meters behind the line of the street creating a courtyard
for pedestrian and vehicular access.
A
concrete wall with a door is to simplify the design of the facade of the house,
making it as basic as possible. However, this lack of openings to the street,
contrasts with a wide open interior space that visually connects the whole
social area with the central patio, the backyard and the SierraMadreMountains filling the
interior spaces with light and natural ventilation and establishing a strong
dialogue with the landscape.
The
private rooms are protected by a segmented wall that allows privacy; also every
private room has a private patio to bring lighting and ventilation. The social
area is a continuous sequence of kitchen, dining room, lounge and a large
terrace that connects to the rear garden.
Doors,
windows, metalwork and construction system are the most basic possible. The
materials are left in a raw and natural way. Many of them have been done on
site using materials and local labor with the intention of rescuing traditional
constructive systems and jobs that have been displaced by a market of
prefabricated materials, which generates low local employment and architecture
based on repetition and mass.
Manual
opening systems for windows and skylights and doors were designed especially
for the project, developed by working closely with experienced local carpenters
and blacksmiths. The architecture of the house invites the users to be part of
their material structure. The use of the house generates a direct experience
with materials, tactile sensations and a different consciousness of the
elements that are part of the housein times of
extreme lack of contact between people and objects and also between people and
architecture.
Thus
90% of the components of the house have been made by local labor and have only
used the lowest number of industrial materials to preserve the essential idea
of the project.
Structurally,
the whole volume made of reinforced concrete made in site (walls, slabs and
inverted beams) floats on a platform that helps to provide insulation for the
interior space, also the orientation of the house ensures the protection of the
solar incidence using the existing trees on the site which bring shade to the
roof of the houseand also using higher volumes of
neighboring houses.
The
house is a reinforced concrete monolith that has been perforated to create the
interior space which is then defined with a glass membrane to emphasize the
continuity of the material in floors, walls and slabs and its quality to be
gradually transformed by the movement of the light and the shadows that occurs
both inside and outside of the house during the course of the day.
is a 360 square
meter single family home designed by S-AR, an
architectural firm based in Monterrey,
Mexico.
The
house was designed as a sanctuary from the surrounding urban environment, as
well as a series of memorable architectural spaces with the people that live in
them at their conceptual core.
Casa 2G
creates sensory experiences and moments that enrich its inhabitant’s daily
lives, thanks in part to its sparse materiality and handmade features, which
pay tribute to the artisan work of local craftsmen. The nature of this space
contrasts with false ideas of human progress in a world dominated by
appearances and trends.
By
taking a morning tour of Casa 2-G, the viewers are able to experience those
special everyday moments spent in the house. As the windows open, we take in
the natural changes in the environment, and we witness the dialogue between the
house and the natural light as it evolves throughout the day.
Come
nightfall, the house opens up its spaces so that the light from the fire can
fill us with peace as it vibrates over the raw surfaces of its walls. In Casa
2G, ordinary routine is pleasantly interrupted, and transformed into memorable
moments of harmony and spiritual consciousness.
Proposed
as a basic house, the project is a simple rectangular volume with a courtyard
that divides the social from the private area. Located in a residential area,
the volume starts few meters behind the line of the street creating a courtyard
for pedestrian and vehicular access.
A
concrete wall with a door is to simplify the design of the facade of the house,
making it as basic as possible. However, this lack of openings to the street,
contrasts with a wide open interior space that visually connects the whole
social area with the central patio, the backyard and the SierraMadreMountains filling the
interior spaces with light and natural ventilation and establishing a strong
dialogue with the landscape.
The
private rooms are protected by a segmented wall that allows privacy; also every
private room has a private patio to bring lighting and ventilation. The social
area is a continuous sequence of kitchen, dining room, lounge and a large
terrace that connects to the rear garden.
Doors,
windows, metalwork and construction system are the most basic possible. The
materials are left in a raw and natural way. Many of them have been done on
site using materials and local labor with the intention of rescuing traditional
constructive systems and jobs that have been displaced by a market of
prefabricated materials, which generates low local employment and architecture
based on repetition and mass.
Manual
opening systems for windows and skylights and doors were designed especially
for the project, developed by working closely with experienced local carpenters
and blacksmiths. The architecture of the house invites the users to be part of
their material structure. The use of the house generates a direct experience
with materials, tactile sensations and a different consciousness of the
elements that are part of the housein times of
extreme lack of contact between people and objects and also between people and
architecture.
Thus
90% of the components of the house have been made by local labor and have only
used the lowest number of industrial materials to preserve the essential idea
of the project.
Structurally,
the whole volume made of reinforced concrete made in site (walls, slabs and
inverted beams) floats on a platform that helps to provide insulation for the
interior space, also the orientation of the house ensures the protection of the
solar incidence using the existing trees on the site which bring shade to the
roof of the houseand also using higher volumes of
neighboring houses.
The
house is a reinforced concrete monolith that has been perforated to create the
interior space which is then defined with a glass membrane to emphasize the
continuity of the material in floors, walls and slabs and its quality to be
gradually transformed by the movement of the light and the shadows that occurs
both inside and outside of the house during the course of the day.
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