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Casa El Uro – 7XA Arquitectura
Project: Casa El Uro
Author: 7XA Arquitectura
Angel López, Carlos Ortiz
Design Team: Ángel López, Carlos Ortiz, José Borrani, Anabel Crespo, Ana Casillas, Claudia Murillo, Cesar Garza
Location: Nuevo León, México
Built Area: 900 m2
Plot Area: 5,000 m2
Photography: Francisco Lubbert
In an area of 5,000 m2 develops this residence. The program gets space between existing trees and find the best views of the mountains of the Sierra Madre to the family and social spaces.
The huge field gave us the possibility of working a cross-shaped pattern where each floor is rotated at your convenience according to management views and emphases in each space, we always have a terrace or partially roofed area to “dilute” the difference between interior and exterior. This resource is also linked to an attempt to respect the wide arborization already owned the land and had to make the most pleasant views to generate and shadows on the facades.
You get to the ground through a very discreet entrance to see the bottom left open the residence through the trees. A roundabout surrounding a pair of walnut exterior hall serves as connecting us with a cube of concrete access way and also leads to a slab in the form of “L” social functions as grand entrance to the garden and terraces beyond. The house is articulated by a central space where the cause is a wooden cylinder that serves as a guest bathroom on ground floor and upstairs study.
This space divides the different areas of the house downstairs that contains the social, open and integrated with the outside on one side and the other the more closed, intimate semi-private, on the upper floor where the bedrooms are housed at the front are the secondary and the primary rear-view huge garden.
The project is a geometric set of plans and simple volumes that generate spaces that are becoming so subtle exterior-interior.
