Arched terracotta quantity tops Delfino Lozano’s Guadalajara residence advanced
Mexican architect Delfino Lozano has turned a household house in Guadalajara into 4 residences detailed with blue-painted beams and arched doorways.
Lozano created 4 one-bedroom residences in a two-storey property situated within the Santa Teresita neighbourhood of the Mexican metropolis.
The architect mentioned he designed the advanced, referred to as Home B836, to observe as a lot of the prevailing format as potential. Options embrace a pair of courtyards that permit for pure gentle to penetrate into every of the residences and an inside staircase in the midst of the constructing.
“The unique construction of the home was conserved, attaining the proper distribution of the 4 studios and demolishing solely the mandatory components to generate way more open areas,” he mentioned.
The stair connects the 4 models and leads as much as a small quantity that Lozano erected on the roof to supply residents entry to a rooftop patio. The construction has concrete and glass partitions, and a curved brickwork roof that’s coated in terracotta tiles.
The arched roof mirrors the quite a few archways seen within the challenge, akin to arched home windows and doorways.
White partitions function each on the outside and inside Home B836, which was beforehand colored a darkish yellow outdoors. Lozano mentioned the color is a method to combine Mediterranean structure with Mexican components to create a brand new type he calls “Mexiterraneo”.
Photograph by Erle Marec
“The design intentions reaffirm the looking out of the workplace for choosing up the road of the “Mexiterraneo”, through which materiality was chosen by its freshness and sobriety they supply in every of the areas,” he defined.
Lozano additionally used the time period to explain his renovation of a 1970s home within the close by metropolis of Zapopan. Known as Casa A690, it equally consists of a mixture of Mediterranean and Mexican aesthetics.
Delfino Lozano revitalises 1970s Mexican home Casa A690
At Home B836, a tough stone wall in one of many courtyards affords a distinction to the feel of the sleek concrete flooring contained in the models.
The interiors mix the commercial high quality of uncovered metal beams and concrete, which can be used to create benches and tabletops, with softer surfaces. Plywood clads inside partitions, kinds built-ins for seating and serves as kitchen cabinetry.
Photograph by Erle Marec
Lozano has additionally painted a lot of the doorways and uncovered beams blue to match the colors of home windows and doorways.
“This fashion, utilizing concrete, wooden, blue-painted ironworks, and clay components such because the vault that culminates on the highest stage of the constructing, honouring the vary of native supplies,” Lozano mentioned.
Photograph by Erle Marec
Particulars that spherical out the 250-square-metre challenge are woven rugs, globe lighting fixtures, pillows and potted crops.
Ample pure gentle is supplied with totally different window shapes, from lengthy rectangular parts to gridded, arched designs.
Photograph by Erle Marec
Along with Home B836, Lozano has modernised one other house in Guadalajara. He has additionally constructed two new residences, Casa G and RR Home in Zapopan.
Images is by César Béjar until said in any other case.
Venture credit:
Collaborators: Daniel Villalba, Sebastián Aldrete, Gloria López, Jesús Sánchez, Fernanda Rodríguez
Ironwork: Franck Chamú
Electrical energy and plumbing: Juan Pablo de León
Woodwork: Alejandro Mena
Panorama: Petunia Landscaping
Portray: Antonio Cisneros
Development: Delfino Lozano
Structural engineering: Delfino Lozano Armenta