Project Description

The client requested the design for a rest cabin with an unconditional premise: to develop the program with the silhouette of a geometric shape with unique characteristics and that appears repeatedly as a pattern in nature: the hexagon. In the area delimited by this figure we develop a rest program with a single bedroom, and a wide social area that extends outdoors in a covered perimeter terrace. The clay tile roof rests on a structure of wooden beams and stone walls. Completed with a central fireplace, the design is inspired by the region’s traditional architecture, reinterpreted through precise and harmonious geometry. The cabin integrates with the natural environment, offering a cozy and functional refuge for rest and connection with nature.

Project Description

Project in a newly expanding urban neighborhood. The program consists of a ground-floor private residence with the inclusion of studios for temporary rental. Three loft-type studios - bedroom on a second half-level - are articulated in a wide open common circulation where exclusive-use terraces and common services are delimited in a permeable way. An accessible rooftop for all users completes the program. The design is based on formal simplicity and functionality, playing with a geometric balance of volumes and a game of irregular voids. The ground-floor house is resolved with a sort of “services island” in which the kitchen forms the main articulator.

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For this project, we developed together with the client a cafe concept that supports different situations of use and stay.

Spaces were designed with different furnishings and qualities, inviting guests to linger or offering comfort to those who just want a coffee to go. It includes areas to socialize, work, or relax. The visual proposal aims to create a welcoming and versatile atmosphere where customers can enjoy their coffee in a setting that blends modern and rustic elements, reflecting a connection to the earth and the origins of coffee.

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This residence faced the challenge of being set on a narrow-front lot, with the advantage of having a free side. In an extensive and pleasant exchange with the clients, a space was conceived around a double-height living area; the dining room, integrated with the kitchen island, in a setting of virtual boundaries connected to the rear garden, creates a greater sense of spaciousness and sensitivity to the warm tropical climate, which requires optimizing ventilation and air currents to evacuate accumulated heat within the home. The addition of a small office space and a rooftop gym completes a program that responds to a life of balanced activities at home.

The geometry composes a cohesive architectural language, with subtle changes in texture and tone, cantilevers, and translucent panels that break the mass and the effect of verticality, giving a contemporary aesthetic of white volumes with a balanced domestic scale. As part of the environmental strategy, the home is set back along much of the side wall bordering the private street, creating a small interstitial garden and allowing free air circulation by forming half the height of the wall with a white concrete lattice.

Project Description

Multi-family project with simple geometry but presenting interesting aspects in its design. The client’s requirements were as follows: A private residence on the ground floor and rental apartments on the upper level, and the rooftop had to be accessible to everyone. The land had an irregular geometry that added even greater complexity. The solution consisted of strategically placing the stairs with services underneath and separating the housing units to generate privacy.

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Casa Cisne is a single-family home located in a traditional neighborhood of Puerto Vallarta. The house design seeks to respect and complement the architectural character of the neighborhood, integrating traditional elements reinterpreted from a contemporary aesthetic.

The house contemplates vertical growth in stages, allowing for future expansion without compromising the integrity of the original design. Interior spaces are designed to maximize natural lighting and cross ventilation. The main living room integrates with the back garden through a covered terrace, creating a transitional space between the interior and exterior.

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Seeking an experiential space for relaxation, leisure, and nature, the project starts from strong formal and spatial premises: two bodies, an esplanade, and a solid arched stone wall. With the main motivation of establishing a poetic dialogue with the landscape, it becomes an integral part of the dwelling.

The general composition is structured in two volumes. A lower level, inserted into the slope of the plot and hidden from view for those who arrive at the site. This is discovered when descending from a lateral staircase that leads to the exterior Esplanade. Contained in the terrain and materialized with cuatrapeada stone, this solid foundation references a cavern, the most primitive and synergistic form of inhabiting a space.

A second volume –accessed from the interior– is juxtaposed on top. It has a completely opposite intention. It demarcates the position and rises among the trees. It tells the story of a small cabin in the mountains, but suggests there is more to discover. Lightweight, with a traditional tile roof and wooden structure, delimited by windows. Here, the security of the solid stone shelter is not present, and one confronts nature, exposed.

A semicircular stone wall contains the terrain –and the esplanade– where the construction is inserted, and creates a contrasting view from below. Here the camouflaged cabin is a solid hacienda upon the rock. As one descends the terrain, a series of terraces modify the slope to make it suitable for cultivation, and additional spaces complete the necessary utilitarian program.

Project Description

Compact, comfortable and practical. This complex in a high-density neighborhood optimizes space to provide the greatest possible amount of air and ventilation, which we believe is a basic requirement in the local warm climate. The street front is used to place a commercial space and on one side the access to the residential units. In the facade it integrates with the urban profile and dominant aesthetics in the area, but adding elements of its own character, such as a change of texture in the lower wall to reduce the visual scale and a sort of gardened screens that provide privacy to the terraces of the front units.