AREA
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
YEAR
2016
LOCATION
Mexico
TYPE
Landscape + Planning › Private Garden Residential › Apartment
It generates a dialog between the newly constructed building and its environment, interweaving the project with its landscape and unifying indoors with outdoors.
The indoor section has a linear axis with access to the rooms crossing through the common, semi-private, and private areas.
The design process inserted targeted elements that produced a series of specific, outdoor spaces whose function is directly related to the apartment’s indoor activity.
Likewise, the outdoor layout follows a parallel design; a wall runs along the axis that encloses and divides the areas based on the required activity.
The northeast holds two terraces joined by a pergola; the first houses a living and dining area with a vertical garden built of wooden boxes reclaimed from the shoring system used in the construction
The second terrace rests on a lower overhang, suggesting a closer relationship with the landscape.Finally, a staircase connects it with the gully underneath the structure.
The southwest houses a more private garden that connects to the bedrooms, the TV room and kitchen, culminating in a contemplative space known as the Garden Box.
Three transition elements were built with reinforced concrete, each with its distinctive energy.The first is a pool of water that symbolizes the purification of the access space, while endowing the access with movement and sound.The second consists of a garden of energy stones, while the third is a vegetable garden, designed to blend the gully’s natural vegetation with the terraces.