The site is located within the city of San Pedro Garza García which gives the project a priviliged view towards the Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains.
One of the most important key points throughout the design process was to consider the client’s desire to have the most extensive green area without loosing any of the architecture program. The house is placed along the site by 2 perpendicular volumes which create an “L” form layout that allows a direct relationship with the landscape.
Since the main entrance, the residence proposes a sightseeing transition under a display of light and shadows created by diverse vertical and horizontal planes, as for the surrounding trees. It is intended that the users and any one who visits the house are able to discover and enjoy the courtyard garden throught their way inside the place.
The house program is mainly organized in a two floor volume which defines the plan layout and has a clear distintion between the social and private areas. The ground floor opens generously towards the exterior by a transparent facade composed by vertical windows that provide natural light in the social spaces as well as in the kitchen and breakfast area.
Such features, allow the living room, dinning area and kitchen space to open entirely towards the southeast garden and acquire a terrace character by articulating the inside activities towards the exterior.
The upper level includes a tv room, a main bedroom connected to a terrace and two additional rooms, plus their own service areas. Such spaces look forward to emphazise the views towards the city’s mountains through vertical openings which make up the overall design composition of the main facades of the project.
From the outside it is possible to observe the composition of a long rectangular volume with its vertical elements that stands up from two compact but strong rectangular volumes. The feeling of lower bulky volumes is accentuated by using rectangular marble tiles between 6 and 10 centimeters. The use of marble along the façade continues through the inside, which is also used in the interior and exterior floors of the first level. At the end, the result is to reinforce the visual permeability between the interior and exterior spaces.