Project Description
The monotonous rhythm that is conformed by the facades of all the houses in Guadarrama Street is boldly interrupted by an architectonic manifesto: the habitual architecture evolves into Guadarrama House, a spatial poetry in the middle of a prose. Different from the other houses in the Street, Guadarrama House plants itself like the new kid on the block, bold, cunning and young. Through an access lattice that allows direct contact between the outside and inside one has access to the first sequence of spaces. It is a house that is understood only by the walking and discovering of its areas. The garage— the first space designed slyly— is much more than that; it is the possibility of having a buffering zone between exteriors and interiors. This access is only the first track to discover that the house is made of moments; every space is as special as the next. The central patio is the heart of the project. Just like the heart transports blood to the arteries, the patio controls the development and friendliness of spaces. A sort of panopticon that far from monitoring and surveilling its colleagues it integrates them to give everyone a sense of wellness and wellbeing in all rooms and spaces. It is the element that integrates the garden with the terrace with the dining and living room, and also with the other floors of the house. The patio is the link between the exterior and interior that paces through a soft and quiet threshold. The patio is calm while the interiors of the house don’t stop moving. Inside, the stairs become a sculptural element that unfolds at different levels in order to use the space wisely: it bridges bedrooms and play spaces with different atmospheres. With this set of angles and visual flirtations is that the precise details are achieved, the architecture is its best ornament. Aware of the complexity of the system, the house was designed to showcase its high design status, a kind of haute couture architecture. The bill thoughtful, well-made architecture is what gives it its aura, is what makes it vibrate and function.House Guadarrama is a discovery in a residential street of Mexico City and at the same time it’s a succession of discoveries in its inside. Its inhabitants will not get tired of walking every day in the same spaces, as even the seasonal vegetation is designed to change the house just as a family grows and evolves.