La Fábrica

La Fábrica

La Fábrica

Philipppe

ARCHITECTS
Philipppe

BUDGET
$50k - 100k

AREA
10,000 Sqft - 25,000 Sqft

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Oaxaca, Mexico

CATEGORY
Landscape + Planning › Private Garden

La Fábrica garden is Oaxaca’s first open space suited to both social gatherings and garden wanderers. The project proposes to revive a disused property through dialogue between vestiges, landscapes and specific architectural interventions; which together comprise an outdoor program.

La Fábrica
La Fábrica

At street level, restored mud-brick walls — composed of stone, tiles, adobe and lime — surround a semi-arid climate garden and a pink limestone multi-use esplanade.Levitating seven meters high above, a rusted metal frame supports the corresponding systems for roofing, lighting and sound.

Through a designed interplay, both front and back structures have white clay tiles as floors and white clay vaults, as well as steel hanging ladders that lead up to their respective terraces.

La Fábrica
La Fábrica

Two majestic pre-existing trees — Jacaranda and Pepper tree — frame the garden’s stone-walled reception. Receding to the back structure, native Huaje trees give way to a shaded enclave wrapped around by adobe walls and discrete metal columns.

In the middle, sprout a yellow Guayacan tree and a red-brick artistic mural; alongside, a set of stairs continue downward towards its underground stratum.

La Fábrica
La Fábrica

Light filters through the Guayacan tree and illuminates the underground textures of lime, concrete, wood and volcanic stone. Below the limestone esplanade, vaults of coloured concrete and lime paint walls contain the underground gallery.

The concrete vaults help unify the underground operational spaces: private rooms, offices, machine rooms, bathrooms and a kitchen.

La Fábrica

Hence, for instance, the living symbol of the Guayacan tree — that reaches from below upward, from dark to light — and its centrality of this gesture to our design approach.

CREDITS:

Photography - Camila Cossio- LM - interiorismo - Interior Design- Arquitectos Artesanos - Restoration and Mural- Grupo Cocoa - Construction