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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Casa 3 in Acapulco, México by At103August 13th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: At103 The Project consists on the restoration and enlargement of an existing house in the old part of the city of Acapulco, Mexico. In the 50’s and 60’s, Acapulco was a Hollywood Town, full of glamour and money, where all the rich and famous— from John Wayne to John F Kennedy and Maria Felix—would meet, where good taste and modern architecture blended with the beautiful landscape of the bay and the cliffs. This has changed over the last decades: the city grew old, and no new infrastructure emerged, except in the classic area, to preserve its former contemporary city atmosphere.  Image Courtesy © Frida Escobedo & Adolfo Pardo
 Image Courtesy © Frida Escobedo & Adolfo Pardo “Casa 3”, located in the old part of the port—right on the Gran Via Tropical avenue and very close to the yacht club where the sailing competitions during the 1968 Olympic Games were held—is a house built by the functionalist architect Hector Mestre in 1953, as part of a five-house complex. This specific house has a special characteristic: it is located right on the bay and no buildings obstruct its views of the main port, the ancient San Diego Fort and the hotel area.  Image Courtesy © Frida Escobedo & Adolfo Pardo Our clients asked for an enlargement and a renewal. For us, the challenge was to preserve the original architecture and at the same time combine it with the new expectations created by life in the 21’st century: more space for storage, better safety and new technologies. In short: to adapt it to the needs and dynamics of contemporary families.  Image Courtesy © Frida Escobedo & Adolfo Pardo The enlargement consisted in redistributing the bathrooms, making them wider, and adding a new living-terrace-bar-dinning space with a new pool facing the bay; the original pool was placed in a back terrace. The materials were selected in a way that prevented not only the competition between the new and the old materials, but also the new materials from not being appreciated. Displaying the new and the old, without making them compete with each other was a clear goal for us.  Image Courtesy © Frida Escobedo & Adolfo Pardo The newly-created area is now the core of the house—articulating all the other areas, including an old saltwater pond at the lowest part of the site.  Image Courtesy © Frida Escobedo & Adolfo Pardo  Image Courtesy © At103  Image Courtesy © At103  Image Courtesy © At103
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