Casa Houlpoch is an old Yucatecan house from the end of the last century that gets its name from a snake from the region that regularly “visited” the property’s ruins.
Behind its colonial facade, this house accommodates four bedrooms and a studio apartment, with a total of 315 square meters of construction.
Upon entering the hall, we are welcomed by an old cast iron lamp (very common to observe in the nineteenth-century houses of the city) that hangs from the original metal beams that together with the white wooden beams embellish the high ceilings of the residence.
In the heart of Merida’s historic downtown, just a few steps away from the Canton Palace in Paseo de Montejo, we find Casa Canela, a colonial house from the beginning of last century, that holds behind its sober façade, a contemporary 2-bedroom residence.
Walking through the green doors, a spectacular sculpture by Javier Marin welcomes you. Located right in the middle of the room, under a simple hanging lamp and the original green beams, surrounded by the stone walls and antique white pasta tiles.
Located in Merida, Yucatan’s Historic Center, Casa Lupita pays tribute to the classic colonial architecture of its historic neighborhoods. This project involved restoration as well as architectural, interior, furniture and landscape design.
The Palace of Music is located in the first square of the historic center of the city of Merida Yucatan, behind the Church of the Third Order or Church of Jesus, which belonged from the seventeenth century to the congregation of the Jesuit brothers.
The building houses; in a basement the museum of Mexican music, at street level a square that is integrated into the public space, on the upper floors a concert hall and the whole collection of Mexican music history.
The core concept behind Casa DZI is a merger between modern architecture and local mayan motifs and materials, as it is exemplified in the extense use of Chukum Stucco, the project is located just one mile from the Mayan archaeological site of Dzibilchaltún in a sustainable residential development; one of our main design concerns was to achieve the greatest comfort to the users while achieving the least carbon footprint possible considering that temperature in this region can rise up to 40°C during the day, we prioritized cross ventilation and thermal conductivity through thoughtful material selection, adequate orientation and the use of wind and shading analysis.
Filux Lab is the new art laboratory of the “International Festival of Lights Mexico – FILUX”. It works as an independent space destined to consolidate the “sense of artistic community”; it serves as a meeting point between artists, experts and the public.
Filux Lab’s international program is based on experimentation, production, promotion and exhibition of cultural projects which take light and cinema as their starting point. In this way, it establishes itself as a global reference from Mexico to the world.
Located in the city of Merida, Yucatan, the colonial house that contains Filux Lab represents a versatile space that works as a gallery, as a workshop and as a place of coexistence, camaraderie and research for artistic purposes.
Given the growing offer of multifamily housing developments in the Tulum area, the project seeks to establish a group where the sense of community is returned. Beyond the repetition of vertically stacked repetitive products, Kiki is about belonging to the whole, where the units, although defined and independent, are understood in their relationship with each other forming an inseparable building, a porous and permeable monolith.
The project strategy is based on a reticular grid structure of 3.60 meters in which the housing units can be configured modularly from one to two bedrooms as required, providing products of 26, 52 and 78 square meters. This scheme allows us to generate subtractions at various levels to obtain terraces and controlled views of the context.
A resting residence house designed on a single floor for a retired couple and their guests. This house was built on a regular 20 m lot on each side located in a Golf club in the city of Mérida. The architectural response on a single level was an important piece that allowed to obtain an additional 10% of land occupation (COS) and take advantage of the native trees that were already on the site. With the idea of compacting what was built and meeting the particular request to optimize the user, a 17m front x 14m deep module was designed forming a piece of 238m2.
To celebrate her birthday, a great friend decided to give herself this abode in which open areas, spatial continuity and a close relationship with the outside predominate.
On the outside, a succession of blind volumes is faithful to our position of “not showing” and allowing the understanding and enjoyment of the space only to those who have confidence to enter the house.
The location of the access is due to the pre-existing vegetation, flanked by it, you reach a covered hallway that precedes the hall and has some outdoor chairs that remind us of the ancient custom of the inhabitants of the city center of ¨salir to talk and watch the night fall¨.On the opposite side, through the garage there is a more daily access, in this, the circulation that leads to the kitchen opens to a flooded patio, becoming a focal point and visual auction of several areas, making the routes more enjoyable and injecting light inside the house.
Casa del Lago is a detached house located within a real estate development where all its lots adjoin a water body in their backyards.
The users are a multicultural couple of mature adults. The objective of the project was that the house will take advantage of the characteristics of the complex and that the open spaces will be part of the dynamics of daily use. Likewise, the house should remember the Yucatecan culture and have the capacity to house the collection of objects of artistic and / or emotional value of the owners.
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