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Morillo Space

Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez
Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez

MORILLO SPACE

RootStudio

ARCHITECTS
Root Studio

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Oaxaca, Mexico

CATEGORY
Spa, Apartments, Commercial Architecture

PHOTOGRAPHS
Arturo Canseco Ramirez

ROOT STUDIO TEAM
João Boto Caeiro, Fulvio Capurso, Tiago Seixas, José Guerra, Alejandra Hernandéz Luis

ENGINEERING
Salvador Perez Cruz

METALLIC STRUCTURE
Roberto Gaytan

FUrniture design
Rootstudio

FRAMING
Jorge Vazquez Martinez, Gerardo Coronel, Alejandra Hernández Luis, Bruno Salinas Vasquez (KAA Studio), Eduardo Casas Martínez

Text description provided by architect.

The challenge of the project was to complete the project of a three-story building in a short period of time and with a limited budget. With the first two partially built floors, we had to design the third floor, finishes and facade.

Given the 4 different functions of the building (shop, apartment, spa, and yoga room) we had to opt for a common aesthetic language that could serve the four programs without each of the spaces losing its identity.

Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez
Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez
Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez

For this purpose we chose to invest in the floor and in the facade as highlighting and unifying elements of the building.

The facade is composed of a metallic structure that holds dozens of andirons standing outside the building. The great frame of the project, the "forest" curtain, captures.

The attention of passersby while protecting the interiors. Within the facade, two metal rails emerge breaking the andirons curtain and allowing contact with the outside and other stories.

Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez
Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez
Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez

Behind the andirons, the building, in a raw gray finish, opens large windows into the street on the first two floors and culminates on the third floor where a metal structure stands creating the yoga room.

Here, the space surrounded by metal windows is protected by metal andirons, and opens to the north and south landscape. The structure ends in three inclined roofs at an industrial zigzag extending the top floor and conveying the scale and depth to the interior and exterior of the building.

Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez
Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez

The interior finishes maintained the simplicity of a black floor and walls with lime finish creating an elegant and discreet contrast consistent with the store, the apartment and the SPA.

The peculiarity of the floor ended up being the cut from the original Interceramic tile into two pieces thus achieving greater dynamism and a better scale that we believe is more appropriate for the spaces. The building, now known as Morillo Space, was concluded with the design and construction of all the furniture for the various areas of the building.

Morillo Space
© Arturo Canseco Ramirez


Morillo Space
Ground Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan
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Fourth Floor Plan


Morillo Space
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