Lattices and courtyards for houses in Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo
12/08/2019.
[Mexico City] Mexico
metalocus, ANA DIOSDADO
metalocus, ANA DIOSDADO
The architecture firm led by the Mexican Frida Escobedo has designed this set of duplex homes located north of the Polanco area, in the Popotla neighborhood of Mexico City. The project converts the balconies into private patios of each of the homes.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo. Photograph by Rafael Gamo.
Rendering. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Rendering. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Rendering. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Level 1 floor plan. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Level 2 floor plan. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Level 3 floor plan. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Level 4 floor plan. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Roof floor plan. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Cross section, courtyards. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Cross section, staircases. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Cross section. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Long section. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Central section. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Rendering. Mar Tirreno by Frida Escobedo.
Escobedo subdivides the building into two blocks, separated by an internal corridor that is the main access, from which the articulation between full and empty spaces is appreciated. Once inside the building, the main entrance access creates a patio or meeting area between the neighbors.
The proposal aims to reformulate the traditional idea of patio in grouped homes, establishing different degrees of interior privacy or ways of filtering the privacy of homes and their relationship with the public and private or domestic. The design allows the development of a typology in which houses overlap on two floors offering a re-reading of the patio with the help of different types of lattices.
The outer envelope, of the set named Tyrrhenian Sea, has been made with cream-colored concrete blocks that unifies the set, in which subtle variations in the texture, orientation and color of the material that composes it are appreciated.
The result is a compact and massive architecture, animated by infinite shadows and chiaroscuro, vibrant thanks to permeabilities.
The proposal aims to reformulate the traditional idea of patio in grouped homes, establishing different degrees of interior privacy or ways of filtering the privacy of homes and their relationship with the public and private or domestic. The design allows the development of a typology in which houses overlap on two floors offering a re-reading of the patio with the help of different types of lattices.
The outer envelope, of the set named Tyrrhenian Sea, has been made with cream-colored concrete blocks that unifies the set, in which subtle variations in the texture, orientation and color of the material that composes it are appreciated.
The result is a compact and massive architecture, animated by infinite shadows and chiaroscuro, vibrant thanks to permeabilities.
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Architect
Project Team
Héctor Arce, Carlos Hernández, Valentina Merz, Javier Rocamonde, Antonio Zarco
Dates
Completed 2019
Photography
Rafael Gamo.
Frida Escobedo
Frida Escobedo (b. 1979, Mexico City) founded her practice in 2006, after four years as co-director of the architectural firm Perro Rojo. Her award-winning work has focused mainly on reactivating urban spaces that are considered to be residual or forgotten.
In 2004 she was awarded the Scholarship for Young Creators by the National Fund for Arts and Culture (FONCA) and in 2008 she was selected by Herzog & de Meuron as one of the architectural studios to participate in the Ordos 100 Project in Inner Mongolia, China. In 2009, she was a winner of the Young Architects Forum, organised by the Architectural League of New York. In 2013, she was selected as one of the three finalists for the Architecture programme at the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and was nominated for the Arc Vision Prize for Women and the Iakov Chernikhov Prize. In 2014, she was selected as a finalist for the Designs of the Year at the Design Museum in London and was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize of the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2014, she won the Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Prize (IX BIAU) in Rosario, Argentina. In 2017, she received the Emerging Voices Award by the Architectural League of New York.
In 2004 she was awarded the Scholarship for Young Creators by the National Fund for Arts and Culture (FONCA) and in 2008 she was selected by Herzog & de Meuron as one of the architectural studios to participate in the Ordos 100 Project in Inner Mongolia, China. In 2009, she was a winner of the Young Architects Forum, organised by the Architectural League of New York. In 2013, she was selected as one of the three finalists for the Architecture programme at the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and was nominated for the Arc Vision Prize for Women and the Iakov Chernikhov Prize. In 2014, she was selected as a finalist for the Designs of the Year at the Design Museum in London and was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize of the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2014, she won the Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Prize (IX BIAU) in Rosario, Argentina. In 2017, she received the Emerging Voices Award by the Architectural League of New York.
