a housing complicated that pops up in vibrant orange colours
Designer Miguel de la Torre of mta+v architectural group constructs an orange concrete residential complicated within the Coyoacan neighborhood, in Mexico Metropolis. The modern housing construction ‘Actual de los Reyes’ accommodates 13 models, versatile to adapt to the customers’ totally different existence, and distributes them in a community of huge geometric interconnected volumes protecting an space of 4.540 sqm. The challenge proposes a purposeful and aesthetically well-defined constructing, through which mass and materiality are uncovered in an answer that personalizes the house.
The architectural program is predicated at its core across the day by day actions within the residence, given the change in post-pandemic routines, and integrates snug, contemplative, and purposeful areas offering appropriate ambiance, lighting, and privateness. The design achieves the imparting of assorted dwelling typologies with the proof of architectural parts and delimits the spatiality and property of the customers from others. Positioned in one of the vital conventional neighborhoods based at the start of the seventeenth century within the southern a part of Mexico Metropolis, characterised by being a well-planned space initially with single-family housing, the residential plan generates added worth and encourages the present habitability of a property in a web site that has been presenting a transparent decline.
all photos by Rafael Gamo
interconnected system conjoins open areas into every module
The challenge proposes a multi-family residence design adhering to a pedestrian scale contemplating the automobile as a complement, establishing a neighborhood underneath a system of particular person dwelling models in a neighborhood that enables new structure underneath an evaluation of latest city life. Aiming to protect the usage of the land within the space the housing plan conserves and respects the heights allowed by the town rules. Miguel de la Torre‘s goal of the challenge is to enhance the standard of life with out overloading the density use of the land. Typically atypical for the positioning, the proposal presents high quality, comfort, and refined architectural types serving as the brand new landmark of the area. The constructing is designed to be modular primarily based on the entire development and construction of orange-tinted concrete. Following a passive vitality design technique, the housing complicated leverages pure lighting and cross air flow conjoining all zones inside every home and their corresponding open areas, akin to lighting cubes and patios, supplied for every unit. The lighting design is easy however adequate for the mandatory degree of consolation.
