Yacatas 475

Yacatas 475

YACATAS 475

Edaa | Estrategias Para El Desarrollo De Arquitectura

PHOTOS
Anonimous, Photo By Yoshihiro Koitani

STATUS
Built

SIZE
10,000 Sqft - 25,000 Sqft

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Narvarte Poniente, Ciudad De México, Mexico

TYPE
Residential › Multi Unit Housing

Yacatas 475
Yacatas 475
Yacatas 475

How should architecture merge into an irregular facade-scape context, while generating character in a contextual yet contemporary proposal?

Yácatas_475 seeks to answer this question while addressing the pressures of real estate development: high land value, densification, local construction regulations, consumer and market demand, and timing.

Yacatas 475
Yacatas 475

A black-reflective square-shaped facade, is a response. It captures the neighborhood reflections and the surrounding lights, while building a special character.

It impregnates itself with the surroundings while achieving a stylish and subtle black abstraction.

Yacatas 475
Yacatas 475

It deals with the local architecture’s history as reinterpreting the modernist tiles facade.

It uses this long lasting material not only for tradition and low-maintenance qualities, but also for achieving an absolute flash of the material´s aesthetics properties: color and light saturation.

Yacatas 475
Yacatas 475

The architecture is about comfort living at affordable price.

Luxury is achieved through continuous space, natural light, flexibility and carefully chosen materials.

The 9 apartments are continuously open to the outside on the front and rear ends.

Yacatas 475
Yacatas 475

Natural light and ventilation are constant.

Roof Gardens, open corridors and generous terraces become a way of life.

The geometry is simple, thus efficient and cost-affording. The advertising campaign was based on dramatic snapshots, generating expectation while reflecting the cutting-edge design of the proposal.

Yacatas 475