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Text description provided by the architects. Casa Westway is a renovation projects of a single family house built in the late 50’s in downtown of McAllen Texas. The original house wasconstructed as a single rectangular footprint with a typical south Texas two pitched roofswhich represents a very distinctive house prototype of his time in this region.
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The main idea was to break the shape of the gabled roof into several pieces by unfolding planes.
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This gave us the chance to create cross relationship which transforms roof into façade and façade into roof, and provided interior spaces richer value of natural light and articulation.
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Each room were linked to social area to provide a more fluent relationship between spaces and continued to exterior patio in order to extend the living room to outdoor space along with the roof system.
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This materiality of the roof seeks to create an expression that will change over time to look for an intimate dialogue with the neighboring house.
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