Front and Back House México City
Casa Front and Back México D.F.
Great views in front, great views in the back; neighbors at both sides, and a family with teenagers. The project works with the directionality of the views but builds up a house that does not feel such directionality. The project works with the directionality of the views but searches for a typology that goes beyond front and back. The overall volumetry does not express that the project was born to respond to such restrictive environment. The house is the conjunction of linear segmented volumes placed in arbitrarily in plan and section, creating different scaled patios around them. Breaking and placing the volumes at different heights enables each space to be surrounded by patios, disassociating itself from the rest of the house. A unique strip connects all the spaces of the house. The project responds to its environment and its program: it is a pavilion house build up to create a single object. Having some of the volumes floating creates a garden with an array of spaces and shadows that might help to use it more, and even in different ways according to different situations.
       

 

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