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Sumit Singhal
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.

Xafix House in Aguascalientes, Mexico by LM ARKYLAB

 
July 27th, 2017 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: LM ARKYLAB

The site is a regular 12×25 meters plot located in an elevated zone at the northwest side of Aguascalientes city, with an east front and having the privileged view to the Cerro del Muerto’s sunset in the backyard.

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

  • Architects: LM ARKYLAB
  • Project: Xafix House
  • Location: Aguascalientes, Mexico
  • Photography: Oscar Hernández
  • Architect in charge: Luis Morán
  • Collaborators: Christian Mujica, Mauricio Rubalcava, Cynthia López, Giselle Maragued, Hugo Lamas, Elena González, Javier Calzada
  • Structural Design: José Ángel Ortiz Lozano
  • Materiality: Concrete, Steel, Glass, Wood
  • Completion: 2014

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

The project responds to the needs of a four member family, zoning areas by levels. It has the lower plan for social activities, the upper plan for rooms and services and the roof as a work studio with a terrace.

The construction takes up from the north side of the lot, leaving a garden in the south that allows a dialogue with all the spaces of the house, strengthening the interior-exterior relation in a private way. A closed facade emerges to the outside, revealing only the entrance to the house in a volume game that spins and moves around a vertical axis that joins them.

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

Indoor areas are structured through a path that goes across the house lengthways. A double and a half height space is cut by a glass corridor, letting light pass and turning itself into the backbone of access to every space of the house.

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

The condition of the site is approached generating a studio terrace that closes the views to the nearest buildings and opens them to the city panorama on the east and the beautiful sunsets on the west. The roof garden is perforated to create skylights that feed the bathroom of natural light and bright as light ghosts at night into the top.

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

The constructive system applied is based on polystyrene panel walls covered by cast-in-place concrete plates, giving pleasing thermal and acoustic conditions without the use of climate comfort mechanized systems, conforming its materiality with natural exposed elements as wood and marble.

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

Image Courtesy © Oscar Hernández

Image Courtesy © LM ARKYLAB

Image Courtesy © LM ARKYLAB

Image Courtesy © LM ARKYLAB

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