CRAFT Arquitectos´s projects are notable for their pursuit of designing efficient spaces and studying all the possible interactions of the different areas, inside and out of the architectonic volume, with their immediate surroundings.
The architects started from a three sections plan to create a central axis where all the social areas of the house: office, dinning and family room, were located. The bedrooms and services are on every side of this section. With this approach the visitor enters through a completely open broad rectangular atrium with the slab left apparent, a grand floated and perforated lattice is the central feature and when sliding the panels the kitchen is unveiled.
MOLE Restaurant is originated from the mix of elements with different natures which, when gathered in the same space, relinquish their original state and find a new identity altogether, as though as we were talking about a good cooking recipe.
It is a space than interacts differently with each user, depending on their baggage of experiences or memories and on the affinity or familiarity that each one has with the elements contained within the space. There isn’t a unique way of living it or understanding it since the posibilites rely on the individual and thus are enjoyed around the table. It is rustic, but also feminine, it is complex, subtle, elegant and ephemeral but extremely eclectic in summary. It’s a bunch of living spaces interacting as a whole.
The pavilion 2 spaces 2 moments is the duality in which the outer space, the large scale space on everyone’s sight, captures the attention of pedestrians with a powerful yet small light threshold, inviting them to discover what is beyond, creating the first moment. The inner space is the second moment of the experience. Inside this small and quiet place made by a geometrical complex surface formed with more than 60 triangle pieces and 1,800 joints, 2 facing mirrors highlight the perspective inside the pavilion, while color and different kinds of lighting nurture this experience and create an endless loop of the inner space. The serenity of the pavilion contrast with the dynamics of geometry, perspective and fullness of color.
Monterrey 55 is a restoration and redevelopment project located in one of the most upcoming, upbeat, re–developing districts in Mexico City: La Colonia Roma. In the 19th century, Monterrey Av. used to be a tree decorated boulevard with majestic residences where the intellectual elite used to live. Unfortunately, due to the new urbanization practices of the late 70's, Monterrey Avenue’s life changed drastically putting these old houses in jeopardy. This is where this project comes in.
The house is located on a mountain three hours away from Mexico City and addresses two apparently contradictory conditions: seclusion and aperture. First, it is a shelter that protects against the radical weather -where the temperature can vary up to 30 degrees Celsius in one day and rain is predominant during half of the year-, and second, it opens as much as possible to the surrounding landscape. Its walls act as membranes, across two temperate zones (forest and prairie), two seasons (dry and wet) and three spatial conditions (center, inside and outside).
Article source: Almazán y Arquitectos Asociados SC
Within Mexico City´s traditional neighborhood of “Condesa” lay a mixture of old and new, tall and short, luxurious and modest buildings scattered within parks with dense vegetation and calm environments, “Condesa” holds a charm that no other place in the city may encounter. This is the place where a short two-story building was erected in the early 1900´s, first as a single-family home, and later converted into a “vecindad” (small multi-family residential building). As time passed, the building was abandoned and left deteriorating, until 2014 when new ownership arrived and decided to bring this “Casona” back to its former glory.
This project is nestled in La Mexicana, an urban park in the west side of Mexico City. To make it possible for the clientele to enjoy the surroundings and vegetation, the park was brought inside the restaurant by opening grand side to side windows in order to live the interior space like the exterior. In the same way some American ash trees were placed inside, as well as some domes in the lounge area, to reaffirm the intended transparency and connection.
The history of Sordo Madaleno encompasses over eight decades of architecture and design. Having been based at Reforma 2076 in the Lomas de Chapultepec neighborhood since the 1980s, the steady growth in the size of the teams both at the architecture studio (SMA) and the real estate development firm (GSM) made it necessary to design and build a new headquarters.
Strategically located at one of the most important economic and cultural hubs of Mexico City (Nuevo Polanco), the new HQ was designed by our own Interior Design department, taking the corporate design to a more challenging level for being our own client.
Floors three to five of the Antara II Corporate Offices—itself designed by SMA—are home to the strategically distributed offices of both parts of Sordo Madaleno.
A radical transformation of an existing two-floor apartment of 250 square metres that is situated in an apartment block from the 1960s by renowned Mexican architect Vladimir Kaspé in central Mexico City. The existing architecture is fully cleared from all unnecessary elements such as dividing walls, false ceilings and decorations resulting in large open spaces. A series of curved walls separate yet connect rooms with each other within a new open-plan layout by creating slender passageways between the different functions of the house, such as kitchen and living room; or bedroom and bathroom. The defining element on both floors is a wall of doors of 17 metres length along the entire depth of the apartment. The overlapping doors allow for easy access to storage, but also serve as kitchen, open bathroom and walk-along closet. The apartment stretches across two floors with spiral stairs enhancing the continuous spatial character of the apartment. Various furniture pieces were specifically designed for the space such as the 4 metres long table with glossy piano lacquer finish.
Set of 8 Residential Houses in the south of Mexico City. The concept arises from the intention of providing dynamism and volume to the facade through a ribbon that runs across the front to the street and provides a connection to the outside.
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