Materia Architecture
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
Description from the architects:
The house responds boldly to the evident physical and natural conditions of the immediate context. The design meant a search for an architectural character fed from exercises of contraposition. Minimal and refined materials are confronted to artisan textures; solid organic forms balancing with implied transparent and white boxes; light versus heavy. |
| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
All of these elements are arranged and placed according the interior programmatic spaces they envelop thus expressing the relation of public and private. Walls are penetrated or excavated creating volumes or voids that frame views to green spaces. The interior courtyard acts as the extension of the public area.
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Photo © Courtesy of Alberto Mora |
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| Plan--drawing Courtesy of Materia Architecture |
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| Plan--drawing Courtesy of Materia Architecture |
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| Section--drawing Courtesy of Materia Architecture |
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| Plans&Section--drawing Courtesy of Materia Architecture |
The people
Architects: Materia ArchitectureLocation: Mexico City, Mexico
Area: 335 m2
Year: 2009
Construction: Materia Arquitectónica
Structural: Gerardo Pastrana
Fixed Furniture: Juan Paredes
Photographs: Alberto Mora
