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Architects: Francisco Montes Villa, Tmv Arquitectura
- Area: 280 m²
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Ivan Minjarez
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Text description provided by the architects. West from the urban sprawl, far from downtown, we may find this house, on top of a high ground and overlooking the city.
![MG-Ch House / Tmv Arquitectura + Francisco Montes Villa - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5238/98a8/e8e4/4eef/7900/01c2/newsletter/4.jpg?1379440791)
The land’s steep topography and blueprints, as well as a proper orientation, along with a city view and the street, led to the project’s final conclusion.
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In order to find a strong relationship between the object and its surroundings, a choice to face the Street was made, as well as in order to find the right orientation through openings controlling both ventilation and sunlight.
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Vertically grouping the program’s elements, the garage and a small studio are street level, which works as a base, on top of which the main body is adapted to the topography through a base-originated mid-level schemata and the land’s natural planting. This leads to an indirect relationship between the street and our house. A third access containment level and circulations are laterally added, working as formal features as well as a spatial articulation device.
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The two-story main volume with the above mentioned schemata , includes a family room, hall, dining room, kitchen and first-story utilities, along with an “L” shaped space creating a side backyard, to which a family room and hall are led to through sliding doors, softening the inner-outer relationship. This is the stage of the main family’s meetings and is to be enhanced by a high ceiling which articulates the first and the second story and where the bedrooms are found, 2 of them overlooking the city and a third one overlooking the backyard.
![MG-Ch House / Tmv Arquitectura + Francisco Montes Villa - Stairs](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5238/9979/e8e4/4eef/7900/01c8/newsletter/25.jpg?1379440979)
The project’s materialization has to do with the area’s typical construction trend, structured by light concrete slabs, brick walls with mortar coverings along with a steel structure and some phony concrete walls confirming the project’s volumetric intention.
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