On the Mérida–Progreso Highway: an abandoned house from the 1970s comes back to life as the headquarters of a Yucatecan automotive firm. GA__P Studio reimagines this structure with architectural sensitivity, creating a project with a clean, sober, and orderly language.
One of the major challenges was adapting a domestic program to office needs: collaborative work, private offices, reception, and storage. The master plan includes a front car display area and a rear parking lot, with the house — elevated on a stone-clad plinth — as the centerpiece of the property.
The plinth accentuates the visual weight of the house and is surrounded by vegetation of varying heights, organized in such a way that it provides shade, climatic comfort, and green views in both directions. Materials such as chukum and mobile shutters reinforce an austere and tropical language. The project achieves something interesting: an office that doesn’t look like an office, but rather a house with new life.