This project emerged from the need to provide high-quality lodging in an area where most Airbnbs have failed to capture the true essence of the context. Instead of building a generic house that could be anywhere, the team of architects decided to design a structure that reflected the rich local culture and provided guests with a unique and unforget...
Project name
Sierra Madre House
Location
Zacatecas, Mexico
Tools used
Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Revit, Ecotec, Morpholio, Corona Renderer, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Antonio Duo, Sofía Herfon
Typology
Residential › House
Just one hour south of Mexico City, the town of Tepoztlán is located within a valley with a pleasant, temperate climate and nestled within three rock formations, including El Tepozteco. These geographic and climatic conditions produce constant and abundant vegetation; it brims with a diversity of flora, and shelters both mountain and subtropical sp...
Project name
La Hacienda Jardín
Architecture firm
Práctica Arquitectura
Location
Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
Photography
César Béjar, Oscar Hernández
Principal architect
David Martínez Ramos
Design team
José Flores Buzo, Eduardo Sosa, Andrés Dillon
Collaborators
Texts: Pablo Goldin, David Martínez
Structural engineer
L atelier – Julien Pinon
Landscape
David Martínez Ramos
Lighting
David Martínez Ramos
Typology
Residential › House
The nostalgia inherited from the Belle Époque for French art is reflected in this house; balustrades, irregular finishes on the trestles and an arch at the main entrance. The premise in the Casona59 project was to preserve the spirit and memory of the building, restoring the cedar wood doors and windows, which were returned to their original state,...
Architecture firm
Taller Estilo Arquitectura
Location
Calle 59 por 78 Colonia Centro, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Principal architect
Víctor Alejandro Cruz Domínguez, Iván Atahualpa Hernández Salazar, Luís Armando Estrada Aguilar
Collaborators
Naomi Sem-hasce Álvarez Mejía, Andrea Balam Lizama, Jorge Escalante Chan, Juan Rosado Rodríguez
Structural engineer
Juan Diaz Cab
Construction
Juan Diaz Cab, Martha Acosta Pech
Typology
Residential › House
The house proposes a way of living that starts from a continuous dialogue with the landscape in which it is located. An irregular terrain at the end of a closed street, merging in some portion, to the semicircle of the roundabout that completes the residential area where TOMM House stars with its powerful personality of right angles. It is a Volume...
Project name
TOMM House (Casa TOMM)
Architecture firm
Mauricio Alonso. m aquitecturA
Location
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Principal architect
Mauricio Alonso
Design team
m arquitecturA
Collaborators
Elias Granados, Axel Arellano, Daniel Valle
Structural engineer
Arturo Gómez Villegas
Landscape
Mauricio Alonso
Tools used
SketchUp, AutoCAD, Revit
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Casa Quintana I is the first part of a project of two vacation homes. Located in the center of the magical town of Valle de Bravo, estado de México.
Project name
Casa Quintana I (Quintana House)
Location
Valle de Bravo, Mexico
Construction
Structural Project Santos & Santos
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Casa Pulpo is a Yucatecan house from the beginning of the last century that is located in one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city. The original bay houses a room and the living room, both retain their high ceilings with the traditional white metal beams and their wooden beams, whose treatment was based on leaving the wood exposed with reminisce...
Architecture firm
Workshop Diseño y Construcción
Location
Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
Principal architect
Francisco Bernés Aranda, Fabián Gutiérrez Cetina
Collaborators
Galerista Yesenia Lope (Art)
Interior design
Artesano MX
Construction
Alejandro Bargas Cicero, Isabel Bargas Cicero, Francisco Bernés Aranda, Fabián Gutiérrez Cetina
Typology
Residential › House
The Abadía House Project is located in the municipality of Zapopan, Jalisco. Developed within a private subdivision, near the walk area, the financial center of the city; This house emerges from a land that naturally presented a great unevenness, so that the project is planted a meter and a half above the sidewalk level with the intention of adapti...
Project name
Casa Abadía (Abadía House)
Location
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Principal architect
Arturo Ferguson
Material
Brick, concrete, glass, wood, stone
Typology
Residential › House
Located in Mexico City’s historic downtown — where one of the oldest Spanish cathedrals in the Americas rests atop the ceremonial center of the Aztec world — the Círculo Mexicano is housed in a 19th-century townhome that’s been transformed into a Shaker-inspired boutique hotel by the hotel developer Grupo Habita and our architecture firm, Ambrosi...
Project name
Circulo Mexicano
Architecture firm
Ambrosi Etchegaray
Location
Guatemala 20, Centro Histórico, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Principal architect
Jorge Ambrosi, Gabriela Etchegaray
Collaborators
Ivo Martins, Sarah Tanguy
Interior design
La Metropolitana
Landscape
Juan Acevedo / Roof Plants
Lighting
Luca Salas Bassani Antivari
Construction
Vigilante de la Construcción
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel
