Iguana House

Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno

IGUANA HOUSE

OBRA BLANCA

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Alvarado, Mexico

ARCHITECTS
OBRA BLANCA

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Apolinar Cortez Sanchez

MANUFACTURERS
Cemex, Che Alum, Chukum, Ramon Juarez, Rocacero

AREA
365 m²

YEAR
2016

CONSTRUCTOR
V+B Construcciones

Text description provided by architect.

Casa Iguana can be synthesized in three independent volumes connected by a bridge. The space generated in between is delimited by three lattice facades made out of thin clay bricks arranged in the same way in which a tower of cards is raised, evoking the cornices on walls and balconies used in some of the traditional constructions of the region.

Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno

On the ground floor, the single family house has a public and service program organized within the limits of the three volumes.

Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno

On the first floor, on the other hand, we find an exclusively private program, distributing one bedroom in each volume.

Iguana House
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Iguana House
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The house is supported over a concrete skirting board, a monolithic extension of the foundation that emerges from the earth; like the roots of a tree, reflection of its structural basis.

Iguana House
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Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno

Light plays an important role when it works in conjunction with the lattice walls. A game of light and shadow runs through the spaces, materializing the passage of time.

Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno

The naturally exposed materials give the house their color and texture inside and outside.

The concrete elements and the exposed beam/vault block ceiling system get balanced by the warm feeling of the clay bricks on walls and floors; the external perimeter of each volume is covered with a flattened made by a mixture of white cement and chucum resin.

They are all of easy maintenance and enough presence to dignify the work over time.

Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno


Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno
Iguana House
© Documentación Arquitectónica - Adrián Llaguno


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