Estudio Mmx

CMR House

CMR House
© Rafael Gamo

CMR HOUSE

Estudio MMX

ARCHITECTS
Estudio MMX

AREA
466 m²

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rafael Gamo

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Estudio MMX

COLLABORATORS
Gonzalo Álvarez Tostado, Pablo Goldin Marcovich

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Ciudad De México, Mexico

CATEGORY
Houses

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Spatial units and the open space.

The plot features the extraordinary garden of an old house, the project explores a defragmentation of the programme by placing it along the strength of the immediate natural environment.

CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo

The total volume demanded by programme requirements was disturbed, fragmented and then distributed alongside the garden.

The volumes are connected through transitional spaces that frame views of the garden, encouraging the user to make pauses while moving through the house.

A subtle and constant link between exterior and interior spaces, blurs the perception of spatial borders.

CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo

While the public spaces of the programme have direct relationship with the gardens, a sequence of spaces and level changes builds up varying degrees of intimacy.

When it reaches the rooms above ground level, the inhabitants are able to contemplate the garden from another perspective while obtaining intimacy.

The selected materials, simple and of neutral colors, respond to the will for recognizing the garden as the main actor of the site.

CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo

Willingly, the house makes itself present through contrast and well-defined geometries.

However, the light, shadows and colors, are still those from the extraordinary landscape.

CMR House
© Rafael Gamo


CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo
CMR House
© Rafael Gamo


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Estudio Mmx
Juan de la Barrera 9a, Colonia Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, 06140 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico