Fernandez Leal 62

Mexico City, Mexico

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Fernandez Leal 62

Mexico City, Mexico

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Raul Peña A. Architecture

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2014

SIZE

3000 sqft - 5000 sqft

This house is located in the La Conchita neighborhood in the traditional district of Coyoacán. The house has been resolved in a T scheme; the basement and three levels belong to the main body and a double-height glazed space to an appendix. This four bedroom house program includes a kitchen, a dining room, a living room, a half bath and two open studios. In addition, the house has a guest room with its own bathroom located in the basement and a service area with bedroom and bathroom, a laundry room, a machine room in the third floor, and two staircases that connect every space; all developed in a total area of 5,200 square feet.

All the structure has been solved with steel beams. They create a set of rigid frames and turn almost all of the walls into divisors, except those of white concrete in the garden floor level. The exterior walls are also white concrete. It is important to note that these side walls are attached to the metal frame, allowing for depth and to provide rigidity.
The structure of the double-height room is supported by circular section columns creating a trapezoidal prism. The access to the mezzanine is by a wooden and steel staircase and a metal and timber bridge that connect both spaces. The windows have been fixed with a vertical pattern of asymmetric angles (6 inch x 4 inch) providing verticality to the house. Both the dining room and the kitchen have one height and a half level because of its position beside the garden.
To provide balance to the white concrete, floors on the ground facing the garden were designed in black matte slate. To balance out the coldness of the steel in matte black, the division screens and the mezzanine floor are made of natural pine wood, unvarnished. Except for some slabs that have been left in white concrete, there are some covered with white plaster ceiling for recessed LED luminaries. Another difference in the concrete walls is that, unlike the interior, the facade was finished with shuttering hardwood board to match the textures of the timber screens. The house is intended to be raw, but not so stern to live in.

Project Team: Leticia Crispín Acuña, Raúl Peña Arias
Structural Engineer: Vicente Robles Jara
Area: 5,274 square feet
Year: 2014
Photography: Alberto Moreno Guzmán, Raúl Peña Arias

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Fernandez Leal 62

Mexico City, Mexico

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Fernandez Leal 62

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