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Project: GDL1 house
Author: bgp arquitectura
        Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta
        Luis Enrique Mendoza.
Project team: Daniela Legorreta, Hector Barroso, JN Morones Esquivel, Carlos Coronel
Location: Guadalajara, Mexico.
Structure: Colinas de Buen Ingenieros, S.A.
Glassing: Val y Val
Design year: 2003
Construction year: 2005
Lot area: 780m2
Surface area constructed: 750m2.
Photography: Jaime Navarro
Model: Ramon Alvarez y J N Morones
Prizes: Mexican Architectural Biennale, honorary mention / CEMEX prize, official selection/
Quito Biennale, official selection. Bienal Miami + Beach 2007, Miami, EUA
Silver medal ex aequo. Single Family Category

The project is located on a sloped site in the suburbs of the city of Guadalajara, with a fantastic view to a beautiful green area and the city.

The house is composed by two rectangular prisms one over the other and placed in a perpendicular orientation between them. The bottom prism contains the private areas and the vestibule. At the same time, this parallelogram cuts the lot creating a private courtyard of white gravel in the highest part of the site, and a garden, a terrace and a pool in the lowest, towards the view.

The second volume, running parallel to the street, houses the public activities and floats over the place in one of its sides in a 12 meter (36 ft) cantiliver. The street elevation is clad in stone as a massive wall, while the south and west facades are glazed allowing views to the park. In the intersection of both volumes is a double-height vestibule area with a skylight and a reflective pond. The lack of walls in the second floor, the use of glass for handrails and a dinning room that is hanging in a glazed mezzanine, lets the space flow into the living room. The dinning room expands toward the roof of the bedrooms as a deck that becomes a wood volume defining the entrance.

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