An excellent house, that dialogues modestly with its urban environment, located in a quiet area, was inserted in the urban plot "with a surgeon pulse, within an environment that already dictates its own rules."
Project description by Sin Título Arquitectura
I don't live badly, I don't regret;
I sympathize with utopian visions
of that architect, but I conclude
that my house demands a different city.
Alejandro Rossi, Streets and Houses
The path we travel as architects day by day is uncertain and complicated in many aspects; In parallel it is magical and rewarding, a way of life. Our work manifests our thinking and our searches, becoming in these few years a resistance to circumstances. We want to continue growing, exploring, learning, risking and resisting this path.
Day by day we identify how valuable it is to know the best we can to the people we design; If possible we try to get intimate with them. We understand this as a vital verb to understand and relate to our environment and who surrounds us, which we try to reflect in our architectural narrative: intimate has become a starting point that allows us to identify important aspects, particularities and desires of people , your perspective and vision.
Melón House represents an approach to the intimate desires of its inhabitants. Its materialization is the example of a custom designed and built space, a very personal design and at the same time, integrated with harmony in its community and neighborhood, as a new gear of a mechanism. Located into a quiet area in Morelia, this project has its roots in the idea of giving meaning of belonging and to make strong the connection with its community for a couple, where the daily activities, uses and inhabitants of the area are relevant to create a construction that dialogues with all these scenarios.
Both the construction process and technical follow-up stages are certainly no less valuable. On the contrary, preliminary perceptions and expectations of what was built there, generated the involuntary but valuable participation and integration of the neighbors and the people who walked by the house through several months, until they finally realized that the final narrative was honesty in their exposed materials, with no additional layers or coatings: timeless and consistent as the primary construction tools and techniques.
The program was developed according to the couple's needs and hobbies, as well as the relationship of the project with its surroundings. Outside the project is isolated on its ground floor to give privacy to the living spaces, while on the first level a window allows the lighting of the study and opens to the outside to dialogue with its environment where small openings predominate. Inside, a patio protects private spaces where its large openings and blacksmiths create an interesting play of light and shadow.
Beyond a private space, Melón House is understood as a living studio, giving a new meaning to the living machine. Through the use of concrete block, custom blacksmiths and wooden elements in the circulations, a sober and transparent dynamic is generated that allows to experiment and generate modulated and flexible spaces, open to possibilities of varied natures.
