Guadalajara, MX
Rinconada House.
General description:
La Casa Rinconada sits on a vintage, discreet and quiet neighborhood, with large, leafy trees. Where each lot had already built the front fence to preserve some unity in this case was a stone wall with buttresses that was preserved.
The house is born from a long porch-patio-terrace acts as climate regulator; open, but double-height roof, which protects from the sun and where a fountain moistens and cools the air entering the house.
The porch extends west side and offers us a landscape created. The house was then housed on this foundation while space is used as a terrace and is linked to the pool. The double-height ceiling is concrete and unfolds becoming a wall running as wall of a room into a blown obstructing the sun screen at the same time gives privacy to public spaces.
The materials are due to volumes, not cloth and wrap both geometrically and symbolically the spaces; The half bath is a red glass cube on the outside, the area of the stairs is a wooden bucket inside at a level between screed leads to the master bedroom and its dependencies and upstairs to the bedroom area children.
The house as well, was molded by natural elements; the sun and its vehemence at evening, Guadalajara relentless rain, wind and subtle earth where he settled.
Status: Competition Entry
Location: Zapopan, MX
Firm Role: Designer and builder
Additional Credits: Arq. Álvaro Morales and Arq. Miguel Echauri.
Echauri Morales Arquitectos