Located in the city of Queretaro, Social Green House an 85 sqm construction intended as a fresh
solution to the horizontal social housing developments in Mexico.
It uproots on an 8 x 16m plot at the outskirts of modern Queretaro, one of the fastest growing
Mexican urban areas because of its strategic location in the country and its paradisiac calm
compared to other cities, generating in it a moral renewal environment that facilitates the
implementation of this open house.
The project generated in an orthogonal box, has a basic but complete plant, which has been
subtracted on two areas to build the cube of stairs and service yard, the rarity is its extraordinary
mezzanine height 3.20 m which reminds us the old pre-modern mezzanine houses.
This mezzanine is only the first of three actions to make it bioclimatic and avoid the use of air
conditioning, the second is the implementation of a roof garden that provides shade on the entire
slab and the third is composed by four double facade louvers that protect and tinted shade
ranging from floor to ceiling.
The double facade louvers completely fold down and combined with the aluminum sliding doors
who allows the interior space to fully disclosed to the outside, making the project much more
versatile, suitable for recreational activities, generates greater transparency and is an incentive to
recover the concept of "neighborhood and community," missing elements in much of
contemporary housing developments.
The system is completely traditional construction, no element needs a highly skilled workforce to
do it, the materials are the same as always, block walls, beam and vault slabs, stairs folded steel
plate, engineered flooring, gypsum plaster, aluminum doors and windows, which makes this
approach economically viable within the parameters of social housing.
Finally the slab top with roof garden gives us another 85 sqm that can be customized, either as an
outdoor terrace, deck for exercise and sustainable gardening, raising substantially the quality of
life of its members.
Social Green House