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House and Studio Anaya

House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez

House and Studio Anaya

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ARCHITECTS
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LEAD ARCHITECTS
Luis Beltrán Del Río, Andrew Sosa

PHOTOGRAPHS
Oscar Hernandez

AREA
192 M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Ciudad De México, Mexico

CATEGORY
Houses

House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez
House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez

The original language of this house, at first glance, does not fit into any particular trend, yet its appearance seems to belong to a time and social class that settled in the Education Colony in the 1960s.

House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez
House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez

The project arose from the possibility of restructuring the entire ground floor, surgically demolishing three load-bearing walls, and replacing them with cross-shaped steel columns and lintels.

These elements gave the rules for the new pasta and terrace floor sections.

House and Studio Anaya
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House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez

At the same time, we made very flexible gates in their opening, and transformed the garage and back patio into small natural oases, connecting the ground floor and thus changing its rules of inhabiting.

The upper level was also intervened in its finishes, some of which recall the original state, as in the colorful bathrooms.

That cute idea of articulating spaces on the top floor through skylights was also rescued, some of them introspective, with atmospheric tributes, as in the golden skylight of the staircase or the window of the master bedroom.

House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez
House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez
House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez

Currently, the house is inhabited for short periods of the year, and it should be mentioned that it is the base of a writer and architecture researcher and therefore has become a kind of refuge/study that evokes memories of a space and time in Mexico City.

On the façade, small big changes were proposed in the position and size of the existing openings, seeking new symmetry and proportions that were almost written into the original design, all accentuated with the colors of the façade.


House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez


House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez
House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez
House and Studio Anaya
© Oscar Hernandez


House and Studio Anaya
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House and Studio Anaya
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House and Studio Anaya
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House and Studio Anaya
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