This project is for a place to celebrate life with family. To build a space of leisure, a flexible one that can host grand family events but also informal gatherings. We had a big challenge: sort out these different stages on a single architectural plant.
The Fuego Nuevo chapel is conceived as a space where natural light is an essential part of the architecture. The structure works as a unity of the columns, walls, beams and slabs. They remain as bare and heavy elements and are constantly repeated generating a rhythm of solids and voids that allow natural light to play its role as a protagonist. We were commissioned to develop a project for a church with very specific needs for the congregation lead by the priests. When the project was presented to the community it was very well received. Many of the church’s resources have come from donations from parishioners and some foundations, so we also aimed to work with low-maintenance materials that could age with dignity.
When we originally designed this building, it was located on a long, narrow lot that overlooked Sagredo Street in the San José Insurgentes neighborhood on the short side. The project became complex in addition to its shape because the owner wanted it to house more cars than required by the regulations, shortly after they acquired a plot of land on José María Velazco street which adjoined the existing one at the back and formed an “L” shaped property, which again complicated the project since he wanted the parking to be solved with ramps and not car lifts as in the previous project, this merger changed the project again and plants were achieved that could be divided into four offices per level.
SCyF is a community and social club for local workers from various important corporations in the city such as FEMSA and Heineken Mexico. At its facilities, workers and their families are offered a variety of recreational and educational activities such as music classes, arts & crafts courses as well as sports installations. Due to the rapidly growing employee base along with policies for bringing better and more diverse fitness programs to their users, the board of SCyF decided to build the Wellness Center that caters sport related activities but also gives special attention to diet education, mental health and general wellbeing.
This house is developed on an ascending lot, west of Monterrey in the foothills of Sierra Madre. The service areas are on the access floor, the garden and the social area that integrates with the #terrazatequilera® are on the ground floor achieving a connection with the exterior, and the family area is on the top floor.
Location: Club de Golf La Herradura, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México
Photography: Onnis Luque
Collaborators: Sofía Arévalo, Nancy Been, Cristina Mena, Elena Cavazos, Carolina Arriaga, Galia González, Úrsula Arellano, Margarita Erro, Rolando, Girodengo, Juan Carlos de la Garza
Paceful and monumental, the Nogal (Walnut) House adopts its name from the conditions defining its location in the site: it respects the existing surroundings by scattering patios around the walnut trees in the plot while the house adapts its contour to them.
At 600 meters above Monterrey city, in the middle of a magnificent forest of oaks and adjacent to the Chipinque Ecological Park, this house rises taking advantage of the spectacular views that nature provides.
A property of great dimensions and a steep slope, grants us unmatched potential views towards the north of the city. A grand golf club in the foreground as well as other green areas of the city, are topped by the majestic “Cerro de Las Mitras”, a distinctive mitre-shaped mountain. The residential scheme is resolved in a linear way on its three levels, ensuring all areas of the house enjoy the previously described views.
Article source: GLR arquitectos / Gilberto L. Rodríguez
The CG House rests on a generous 17,250 square foot site adjacent to the Sierra Madre mountains. While the site’s steep slope presented a number of design challenges, the dramatic views it afforded of the city of Monterrey provided the architect with a number of opportunities.
From the street, two massive oak trees rise to provide privacy and welcome shade to the swimming pool terrace above. Due to the sloping nature of the site, a massive, exposed concrete wall defines and encloses the swimming pool and garden areas, setting the tone for the design of the house itself, which is clad in brown/black volcanic stone, IPE wood, white stucco and steel.
Doblado House is a project which originates from exploit a existing construction of approximately 75 m2 on ground level contained in an area about 260 m2. The architectural program express a housing for a couple and is distributed in service, kitchen and living room on ground floor; and at first level: it contains a studio, bedroom and bathroom. The existing construction is reinforced with a steel structure to load the new floor of the first level and a perimetral facade wall rises with a pedestrian access articulated to the house and another vehicle access on the opposite end. Finally the rest of the area is regenerated like lawn garden for outdoor activities.
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