玛夫拉之家丨墨西哥

Architects:TAC Taller Alberto Calleja

Area:1300m²

Year:2023

Photographs:Onnis Luque

Lead Architects:Alberto Calleja

Category:Houses

Landscape Architecture:Entorno Taller de Paisaje

Interior Design:AGO Projects

City:San Juan Atezcapan

Country:Mexico

Text description provided by the architects. The proposal is developed on two angular volumes, which open toward the landscape, executed in black concrete. They rest and unfold forcefully upon the earth, seeking to establish a new order in the place on which we are situated.

As a fundamental premise, we decided to break through by means of a continuous wall that rises from lower to higher, accompanied by the sound of water, which descends along the stairways, defining the access from the street and initiating the journey toward the heart of the house, which orders and vestibules the spaces and the uses, and ultimately transforms into the roofs of the house in its different directions, generating the imposing character of MAVRA (Black in Greek).

The horizontal volume on the west side contains the social and common areas, articulated through connections at all its corners between patios overflowing with vegetation that are incorporated into the interior spaces, which interact throughout their entire horizontal extension with the landscape that contains them; on its east side, the private bedrooms of the family are developed, where their layout is organized through nodes of interconnection and long corridors for circulation and contemplation, interrupted by vertical and horizontal entries of sun and rain in its roofs and walls, generating diverse sensations and atmospheres throughout the day and night.

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