Taller HDX

Terrace.

Project details

• Project Name: Taller HDX
• Client: Jan Hendrix
• Project Type: House Extension
• Principal Designer/s: Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta, Samael Barrios
• Contractor/s: George Samuelson, Brian Velasquez
• Date of commencement of project: 2004
• Date of completion of project: 2005
• Location of site: Valle de Bravo, Mexico
• Built-up Area: 40 sq. m (first stage) 60 sq. m (second stage)
• Cost of Construction/Execution: 500 DLS/sq. m

Facade day.

Words from the Architect

The project is an addition to a house designed in 1987 for the same client. It consists of a guest room and a studio for the owner, both spaces where conceived as independent volumes with a large terrace that articulates the old house and the new program.

Facade day.

In a first construction stage, the guest's room and the terrace have been built. The guest's room skin is a red channeled plate that aims to create shadows on the box's surface, while contrasting with the deep surrounding vegetation.

Facade day.

Two of the most important issues of the design were the client's reduced budget as well as minimizing construction times. Despite the age difference between the two buildings, the new project creates an interesting and contrasting dialogue that harmonizes with the site and the existing construction.

Facade day.

Facade night.

Studio.

Studio.

Credits

• Text: bgp arquitectura
• Photographs: Rafael Gamo