明亮的五口之家 & 墨西哥9X20住宅 / S-AR

9X20住宅位于一个近年正在向住宅开发转型的工业仓库区，其名字取自所在基地的大小。住宅属于一个小地产开发项目的一部分，该项目覆盖几条街道，共包含70个可用地块，除了转角处和受地形影响的位置，大多数地块的尺寸相同。

由于是同一个开发商进行开发，区域内大多为设计理念相近的住宅，仅在立面上有一些变化；另一些住宅则受商业建筑趋势的影响，为了方便出售而采用更加大众化的设计品位，近年来这一开发方式已经席卷了全城。

Casa 9X20 takes it’s name from the dimensions of the plot where it is built. Located in an industrial warehouses area, which has been transforming into housing developments over the years, the house is part of a small development with barely a couple of streets and 70 available plots. Most of these plots have the same dimensions, except for those located in corners or defined by the topography of the site.

The built context of the area is defined mostly by houses that represent a similar housing concept, with few superficial changes on the facades (as a result of them being built by the same developer), and some others that target a more generic taste, always influenced by commercial architectural tendencies with saleable intentions in mind, which have been spreading all over the city in recent years.

▼ 建筑外观，混凝土块形成独特的立面纹理，external view of the building, concrete blocks create distinctive textured facade

该项目基地为本次开发中最后动土的几片地块之一。住宅将供一个有三个儿子的年轻家庭使用，其中的两层已经建完，剩下未完成的一层可在将来家庭需要更多空间的时候进行扩建。

The plot of the house is one of the last ones to be intervened in this development. The house is for one young family composed by a couple with 3sons. The house has now two complete levels and one incomplete level waiting for a future expansion, when the family requires more space.

▼ 建筑平面，一二层已经完成，三层可以扩建为其他功能，plan, first and second floors are completed while the third level could be expanded into other functions

建筑一层包括社交和公共空间，其开放的平面由一条露台走廊、一个巨大的服务功能核心、一个后院以及服务走廊围合。

The ground floor includes the social area and general services. This floor is defined as an open plan space, enclosed by a lateral patio-aisle, a large core of services, a backyard and the garage.

▼ 建筑轴侧图，由露台走廊、服务走廊、后院和车库围合，axonometric, the building is enclosed by a patio-aisle, service space, a backyard and the garage

▼ 连接车库的入口，entrance from the garage

一件大型连续家具划分出了服务走廊和主要空间之间的界限，同时为两侧的社交和服务区域使用，起到了统合组织室内空间的作用。

An aisle of services is delimited from the main area by a large continuous piece of furniture, which organizes the interior space, giving service to both sides: the social area and the services aisle.

▼连续家具包含多种功能，划分公共区和服务区，multifunctional continuous furniture defines social and service area

▼ 公共空间由露台围合，提供充足采光，social area is enclosed by the lateral patio letting in natural light

在家具和服务走廊中设有隐蔽的储藏间和浴室以及洗衣房等生活空间，这些空间被一系列门围合，外表为简洁的白色体块，与建筑中楼地板等构造系统的颜色和花纹形成鲜明对比。

Both the furniture and the core services aisle hide storage and living spaces such as a bathroom and laundry. These spaces are enclosed behind a sequence of doors that form a white surface and solid volumes that create a contrast between this clear plane and the textures and colors of the constructive system used in the slabs and floors of the house.

▼ 白色的家具体块与楼地面形成对比，the clear white surface of the furniture contrasts the slab and floor

二层为建筑的私密区域，包括家庭客厅、主卧室和两个相似的儿童用房间。建筑的第三层为屋顶露台，未来可以在其中设置游戏房或工作室。侧面的露台和内院将住宅与周边建筑隔开，并为室内提供了充足的光照。楼梯也起到了相同的作用，将街道上的自然光导入建筑的核心区域，使得室内总是能获得均匀的非直接自然光照。

The second floor includes the private spaces of the house, such as the family living room, the main bedroom and two smaller rooms for the sons. The third level is a rooftop terrace that can be occupied in the future as a playroom or a studio. The built volume is illuminated by the light that filters through the lateral patio and the backyard that separate the house from the neighbor buildings, as well as by the stairs volume, used as a conductor to bring light from the street into the core of the house. In this way, the interior spaces always receive some kind of indirect natural lighting.

▼ 二层客厅，一侧为楼梯，阳光通过露台散射入室内，family living room with stair on one side, sun light distributes into the room through the patio

与此相对，由于建筑的正面墙体朝南，会接受过量的直接光照，因此建筑师在其外侧用混凝土块构成富有纹理感的立面，作为简单的生态降温策略，为表面提供24小时遮蔽，以保证墙体不会过热。该立面元素由住宅车库横贯整个基地的I型梁金属结构支撑。砖和梁相平衡的立面设计在整个区域中显得与众不同，而组成I型梁的金属和组成砖块的混凝土是当地最重要的工业产品，两种材料的使用体现了地区的特征。

Contrasting with this, the facade presents a textured surface made with concrete blocks arranged to avoid an overheating of the front walls, providing shade to the facade’s surface at all times. This is used as a simple bioclimatic cooling strategy due to the southern orientation of the house’s front facade, which during most of the day receives direct sun radiation. This element is supported on the metallic structure of the house’s garage, a long I-beam that crosses the whole width of the plot. This arrangement of order and equilibrium between elements (blocks and beam) turns into the distinctive identity of the house among all the neighbors’ forms and materials: concrete and metal. Metal, represented in the use of the I-beam, and concrete, used in the front sequence made of blocks: two of the materials and formats most produced by the local industry.

▼ 混凝土块立面，由车库上方的I型梁支撑，具有遮阳作用，concrete block façade supported by the I-beam on the garage, providing shade to the front wall

▼ 立面，elevations

▼ 剖面，sections

▼ 细部，details

Project: Casa 9X20 Architects: S-AR Location: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Architects in charge: Cesar Guerrero, Ana Cecilia Garza, Carlos Flores, Maria Sevilla. Contributors: Marisol Gonzalez. Typology: Single Family House. Client: Arzate Quiroga Family. Construction Area: 227 m2. Project Year: 2015 Construction Year: 2015-2016 Completion Date: 2016 Photography: Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal. Technical Supervision: S-AR Construction: Gonzalo Tamez Materials: Concrete block, semi-prefab concrete slabs, concrete and steel.