Romero house / at103
Architects: at103 / Julio Amezcua + Francisco Pardo
Location: Queretaro, Mexico
Project Team: Jorge Vazquez, Arturo Peniche
Constructed Area: 400 sqm
Project year: 2005
Construction year: 2006
Photographs: Rafael Gamo
The proposal responds to an specific program for a 4 members family.
The design is developed out of an existing foundation, from which it was necessary to define clarity on the volumes that constitute the house, considering the use of materials and the program that each box contains.
The stone box is the hermetic one; it contains the principal bathroom and services areas such as: storage, maid’s room and garage. The wooden box contains all public areas living room, dining room, studio, bar, kitchen, tv room, visits and kids rooms. Access is through the void generated in between this 2, connecting directly to the living room, a double height space where the main stairs and the linking bridge between the boxes are located.
A metallic structure was proposed for the need of fast construction and lightness over the existing foundation, prefabricated materials were used and based on its modulation they were perforated to generate the visual relation in-between interior and exterior.
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Smooth lines, clear and easy spaces. Very good project. The glass runway, though, must work for the pictures and makes us say ‘wow, edgy!’ but I´d like to see them keeping it clean. A house I´d like to have for myself, anyway.
Who live in this steril turbo white houses?
System slaves?
will somebody please count how many bathrooms are in this thing.
6, 1 for each bedroom (3) fair enough
plus an extra 3 on the ground floor wtf?
who needs 3 in such a small space 1 downstairs is enough
another great example of simple, white architecture. Two cubes in contrast and the in-between space serving as an entrance. Nice consept…yes, i agree about the bridge, too much for a simple house and scary to walk on!!
Indeed, the glass runway is excessive, and I would also question the variety of interior materials and their transitions, like the ceramic tiles on the step of the living room. I don’t understand how the maid’s room works: it’s a room for two people, without a wardrobe and with a window facing the garage? where do these two people bathe? Yet, I’m much more scared of the sharp edges of the metallic open stairs, in spite of their beauty. I hope there aren’t really any little kids in the house! Overall, it has a nice concept, as well as does the other projects that the practice displays in its website.
Regarding the glass runway… we better be careful with what we’re wearing ! Ladies, be aware !
I find this house quite brutal in parts. It’s not particularly inviting or welcoming internally and 6/7 bathrooms is a bit excessive!
I live near by, and i was disapointed to find a strage tile made structure in de garden, this was done because there are residential restrictions that force architects to use tiled roofs. I would have hoped the architects to have comed with a better solution to this. The house is very interesting, and i like it, but i believe that the materials chosen to build it are not the best. i’ve seen the house and it’s walls look somewhat damaged by the weather…
i like the stair.
It’s all good, I believe some comments are biased because where it is located but it’s a good project, if it meets clients requirements then it gets built, in Mexico, there is no second guessing the budget, never, you get your lines drawn and until the client says go, you build, never before, excess or not.
this is what Marc Augé calls a non place…it doestn makes you feel in the place you should be contextually sepaking, this house could be in any place of the world or any magazine and you may say to yourself: ¨nice¨ canadian or japanease or uk or anywhere house…pffff
2:53 PM Dec 29th
@Julioamezcua gracias a los arquitectos ya que los resultados son muy satisfactorios! http://www.archdaily.com/11700/romero-house-at103/