A hard core modernist approach of design composed out of two rectangles arranged on top of each other forming an ‘L’. The rectangle resting on the glass part of the ground floor seems to hover above the exotic garden mentally transporting you into another sphere. This game of transparency versus solid is what takes the project on another level.

‘Background:
The plot of land is located in the western side of Mexico City in Bosques of the Lomas, looking to the northeast towards the street: Paseo of the Tulipanes being 17.99 m long with the official number 16, It’s 875.00m² of surface and a zoning of H2/40%/350.

Project Description:
The project is compost of two rectangular prisms placed one over the other making an ‘L’ shape. The house has three levels organized in the next way:

Basement Floor
This is the level where the parking is located, with space for six cars. It has a room for the driver with complete bathroom, a machine room and a water tank. There is also a games room with half a bathroom and a cellar.

Ground floor
In this level is where all the semipublic activities in the house take place. All the services are located here, a family room with T.V., kitchen, diner room, a living room and a small deck for a BBQ in the outside. This is the general floor of the project and its 1.60m above the street footstool.

1st level
Here the bedrooms are located, with a principal bedroom that has bathroom and an independent dresser. Two twin bedrooms with independent bathroom and dresser each and a forth bedroom also with bathroom and his own dresser. There is also a T.V. living room and a small study.’

ARCHITECT: Central de Arquitectura, Col. Hipópdromo Condesa, Mexico. LOCATION: Prolongación Bosques de la Reforma # 2000, Bosques de las Lomas, México. DESCRIPTION: residential. STATUS: completed. AREA: 879.08 sqm. PROJECT TEAM: Arq. Alejandro Juarez Herrera, Arq. Nicolás Vázquez Herrmann, Arq. Carlos Del Monte Bergés. STRUCTURE: PBS Ingenieros. DATE: 2010. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.