Mexican studio Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados was commissioned to design "Las Golondrinas" house project, located in Peña Blanca, a town 6 kilometers north-east, in the Valle de Bravo municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico.

The "Las Golondrinas" program was conceived as a retirement home, where the owners could spend long periods outside the big city. This is how the house emerges as a place of disconnection and rest.
The 450m² project designed by Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados are organized into three independent volumes, housed within a large sloping roof. The negative space generated by the transition space fosters the existence of a covered terrace that becomes a social place during the day.

Each of the three volumes responds to a different function and part of the program. This arrangement makes it possible for the house to prioritize the privacy of each area but without compromising the views.

 

Description of project by Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados

Las Golondrinas is located in Peña Blanca, Valle de Bravo, State of México. The project takes place in the upper part of a plot, leaving the surrounding nature intact and opening up to the views of the mountains.

The house is thought as a retirement home, a place of disconnection and rest where at the same time they can spend long periods out of town.

Taking into account that the house was designed for a large family and with guests, we wanted the house to have privacy and views as a priority.

The house is organized into three independent volumes housed within a large sloping roof, the space between these three volumes generates a covered terrace that becomes the social place during the day.

Each volume responds to a function and part of the program, in one block are the room, in another the social part and in another the kitchen and services. The communication between these is done through covered and semi-open corridors part of this large roof that also works as a covered terrace in each of the parts and as a space between interior and exterior.

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PPAA.- Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados. 
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Pablo Pérez Palacios + Alfonso de la Concha Rojas, Miguel Vargas, Christopher Torres, Jesús García, Camila Ureña.
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450 sqm.
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2020.
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Peña Blanca, Valle de Bravo, Estado de México, Mexico.
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PPAA. Architecture studio located in Mexico City was founded by Pablo Pérez Palacios in 2018. The practice is driven by an architecture of ideas over the architecture of forms. We conceive architecture as an open medium and message, one that is constantly put to test, by the multiple relations that are in its surroundings. They follow an inclination for nature, where the weather, soil, textures, and other factors—along with the gradients in each factor—create a sensorial atmosphere. They like to think that the way they have of understanding architecture implies that work cannot be done without considering both communal and personal intentions. Therefore, our conception of architecture is based on an understanding of the body and the relationship everyone establishes with their surroundings. Taking this into account, each project seeks to be an extension or support of our experience, personal as well as spatial.

They believe that this can be summed up in the architectural rehearsal, which is the way that modern architecture should be understood. The architectural rehearsal is a vehicle for approaching themselves; the more they rehearse, the more they understand themselves. Furthermore, for architecture to be capable of conveying an idea or intention, it has to speak of the individual, or the sum of individuals, and the way they relate to their environment, on both a sensorial and emotional level.

Pablo Pérez Palacios (Mexico City, 1980) studied in Florence, Italy before he started a bachelor’s degree in Architecture in Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana and Barcelona’s Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (2000-2005). He pursued a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University in New York City. Subsequently, he established DCPP Architects (2007-2017) with Alfonso de la Concha.

In 2018, he started PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados, an architecture studio located in Mexico City that defines itself as an independent professional practice concentrated on architecture, art, urban, and interior design. PPAA seeks an architecture of ideas over forms.

The studio is constantly participating in several competitions, and its work has been published worldwide. It was shortlisted as finalist in Concurso Papalote Museo del Niño Iztapalapa (Mexico City, 2015); and, with the project Cerrada Reforma 108, it received the silver medal in the category of “Single Family Home” at the A’Design Award 2013 and the silver medal in the category of “Vivienda Unifamiliar,” with the project Cerrada Reforma 108 at the Bienal de Arquitectura de la Ciudad de México 2013. In addition, Pablo has collaborated with contemporary visual artists such as Rita Ponce de León and Abraham Cruzvillegas.
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Published on: September 2, 2020
Cite: "A place for disconnection and rest. Las Golondrinas by PPAA" METALOCUS. Accessed
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