About “the customer”
Casa DAUZ attends the needs of a young couple,
projecting a home in two stages, the strategy of “progressive housing”. A house
that grows, transforms itself, and evolves with the future family.
About the architectonic program
The first stage builds three volumes. The first volume
points to the street, resolving the access and the guest’s toilet. It operates
as a connector of these three volumes.
A second volume from the sidewalk configures a two-car
garage, containing the living room, dining room and kitchen in the same space.
The third and final volume, in the most private part of the lot, programs the
main bedroom, with access through a dressing room and bathroom. This stage sums
up to 115 m2 of construction.
The second stage, minding the increasing number of
family members, resolves into two bedrooms, a bathroom, TV room and studio
where the fourth volume of 77 m2 is built.
About the location
The building is located in front of the main boulevard
of a private neighborhood (A 326 m2 lot) which lies on the southeast zone of
the city of Puebla, Mexico.
About the design/scheme
The project is resolved with a clear central garden
scheme, where all spaces live this great “core” of the house. The rhythm of the
house is accompanied by two other important “voids” or “silences”, on one side,
the one which receives the inhabitant with a water mirror, and the most
private, which is a small garden for the main bedroom.
About the structure / materials / typology
The volumes are free and suspended, this means they
break free or apparently float from their surface, unveiling a practical
reading of the house.
The structure is exposed by ipr’s with walls and
concrete slabs. The windows open up to the garden, venting and illuminating the
house, some of them contain shelf as part of the furniture, giving the facades
a peculiar aspect.