Antracita is an ever-changing exercise based on a module that can be arranged and repeated in infinite possibilities to generate forms and landscapes. The forms generated by this repeating module suggest a dialogue between the inert condition of the material and its subtle way of suggesting perpetual movement.
Residential building
Mexico City, Mexico
Development of a master plan for 570 flats with ground floor retail.
Residential complex
Light, scaffolding-like, spatially and chromatically contained, it uses the texture and tonality of the wood in contrast to the opacity of the black porcelain to create an open exhibition of EDAA's production of art-object pieces.
Art pavilion
Hábitat Expo 2023, Mexico City, Mexico
The various connections between subjects and objects are not exempt from continuous transparencies: materially, metaphorically and symbolically. The ceiling is both an architectural and constructive element as well as a metaphor of security and protection; always vulnerable and therefore always with gradual transparencies.
On-site installation
Architecture MasterPrize 2024 (winner), DNA Paris Design Awards 2024 (winner), Golden Trezzini Awards Russia 2023 (honorable Mention), Mexican Interior Design PRISMA Prize 2023 (finalist), Premio Noldi Schreck 2023 (finalist)
Located on the first floor of Taxco 25, this short-stay homestay offers simple yet sophisticated interiors through the extensive and meticulously designed use of pine wood.
Interior architecture design
Located on the ground floor of Taxco 25, this short-stay homestay offers simple yet sophisticated interiors through the extensive and meticulously designed use of pine wood.
Two galleries merge to exhibit photographs, digital art and sculptures.
Exhibition design
Zona MACO. Mexico Contemporary Art 2022, Mexico City, Mexico.
Some irregularities in the topography reveal its existence. The collection of vehicles is kept underground.
Garage for car collector
New York, USA
The partial intervention for the corporate offices consisted of strategically activating the office space.
Corporate interiors
Noldi Schreck Prize 2023 (finalist), Mexican Interior Design PRISMA Prize 2022 (finalist), Firenze Entremuros Awards 2022 (finalist)
The ceiling and the bearing, are the two basic elements on which this emerging market proposal is based.
Public market
An urban forest as a refuge for a house seeking serenity.
Housing
The intervention takes advantage of the original condition of the apartment to restore its materials and elements (doors, windows, fittings, floors, tiles) and through specific openings in the walls opens the space for a more fluid and better illuminated and ventilated experience.
Restoration and interior design
"The true forest is composed of the trees that I do not see. The forest is an invisible nature" José Ortega y Gasset - The Forest, 1914.
Housing for art collector
ESCUCHA proposes an open experience, a scaffolding that functions both as a constructive system and as a support for human interactions with nature. Its light structure and solid foundations reveal and anchor the work to the site and the landscape. Thus, instead of seeking a static view of the project, ESCUCHA suggests a variety of meanings and senses.
Hotel boutique
Nayarit, Mexico
Casa Meztitla exposition
This proposal focuses on life in a neighborhood, it picks up the typology of the Roma Sur area and salvages a historical protected house with a 1940s functionalist style. It creates five dwellings connected by gardens and terraces, where materials such as concrete, rust-finished steel and pine wood are used.
Multifamily residential
Roma Sur, Mexico City, Mexico
Project of the Year Archdaily 2023 (nominee), Project of the Year Grupo Expansión Prize 2022 (honorable mention), Golden Trezzini Awards Russia 2022 (special mention), Biennial of Young Architects FCARM 2019 (honorable mention), Firenze Entremuros Awards 2022 (finalist), LOOP Design Awards 2021 (nominee), Interceramic Interior Design Prize 2020 (finalist), Mexican National Architecture Biennial 2020 (nominee)
The intervention superimposes new materials in order to transform the spaces into simplified observation and resonance boxes. In a sequence from less to more, the work explores the visual, acoustic and ornate qualities of marble, wood, paint and rice, the latter being a central raw material in the practices of the artist Yupica.
Audio-light spatial installation
Design Week – Design House 2018, Mexico City, Mexico
Iberoamerican Lighting Design Biennial 2022 (official selection), Biennial of Young Architects 2019 (honorable mention), The Plan Award 2019 (finalist), Architizer A+Awards 2020 (finalist)
Acknowledging the forest as its protagonist, the house is inserted among the vegetation and as it adapts to its slope. It is the starting point of a line in the landscape which makes reference to both the glacial past of the rock blocks and the permanent interaction between the architecture and its surroundings.
Art and housing collection
"Rapitae: 11,154-11,51, seeks to generate an experience of space and its relationship to time, as part of a reflection on the distances between time perception and time magnitude in nature, two notions that are condensed in the experience of the wandered public" - Yupica.
Ephemeral restaurant
Millesime-GNP 2017, Mexico City, Mexico
Iberoamerican Lighting Design Biennial 2022 (honorable mention), BUILD Architecture Awards 2021 (winner), Architizer A+Awards 2018 (winner), Architecture MasterPrize 2018 (honorable mention), Mexican Interior Design PRISMA Prize 2018 (special mention), Noldi Schreck Prize 2019 (finalist)
An object in the architectural space: a simple concrete staircase.
Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City, Mexico
Stand for the Spectre 13 laptop’s debut.
Retail
The main challenges were the reduced size of the property and the instability of the land, coupled with restrictive construction and land use laws. The end product is a slim and light building.
Independencia, Mexico City, Mexico
Roma Norte, Mexico City, Mexico
A light staircase ascends into the void that ventilates and illuminates the dwellings while the glossy black tile façade, characteristic of the Narvarte neighborhood in the 1950s, captures the colors of the neighboring buildings and makes them its own by reflecting them.
Narvarte, Mexico City, Mexico
Firenze Entremuros Awards 2017 (finalist)
Casa Meztitla is an intervention in a wild scenario that dialogues with the flora and topography carved more than 500 years ago. The architecture is developed by safeguarding the native vegetation, effective sunlight and topographic levels, in order to harvest rainwater in a system that guarantees its water sustainability.
Boutique hotel
Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
Ópera Prima Trama magazine 2022 (winner selection), Dedalo Minosse International Prize OCCAM 2017 (gold medal), Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2016 (nominee), National Architecture and Interior Design Prize AAI Mexico 2016 (winner), Architizer A+Awards 2016 (winner), Latin American Architecture Oscar Niemeyer Awards 2016 (nominee), Biennial of Young Architects FCARM 2015 (gold medal), Biennial of Architecture of Mexico City CAMSAM 2015 (silver medal)
This is an exercise in rapid assembly of a minimal living space with durable and completely reusable construction materials: wood, corrugated fiberglass sheeting and cement block to separate it from the ground.
Dwelling
A museum without form, open and free, colorful and complex, like the imagination.
Children's Museum
Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico
Papalote Museo del Niño Competition 2015
Intermittences is an essay about the spatial possibilities in the contemporary city; it is a mutation of the public space that is amplified with the participation of private property and the notions of social interaction.
Research
Venice Biennale Proposal 2016
San José Insurgentes, Mexico City, Mexico
The modular glazing system exposes the concrete skeleton, adapts to the mezzanines and the space between columns, so that they can be replaced one by one and create a curtain wall with aleatory reflections and a visual condition of a light, infinite, and ever-changing facade.
Facade renovation
Polanco, Mexico City, Mexico
It is a complex of five townhouses –independent vertical homes– that share a common entrance: a landscaped corridor that flows from the street, passing through the pedestrian entrance and reaching the back of the property.
The human experience of living is obtained through sensations and, therefore, perceptions. Perception determines our reality, our world, our social interactions and our relationship with the objects that surround us, the environment and with ourselves.
Portfolio
The El Chel plant is the transition from a small-scale family business to a world-class food industry.
Industrial
The progressive growth characteristic of the proposal will generate a feeling of belonging and personalization, as well as a sustainable housing model, as it will be able to adapt over time, based on the tastes, needs and possibilities of its future inhabitants.
Minimum housing
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Architecture MasterPrize 2016 (honorable mention), National Competition for Architecture with Social Sense 2013 (honorable mention)
To materialize a house of minimal surface and economy in the Mexican rural environment is not to think of a habitable container or shelter. A house in this scenario must exist with a fine balance between traditional and contemporary values.
Forest areas, Mexico
CONAFOR Competition
In the aftermath of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, many parts of the city were devastated and lost their unique character. Such is the case of the Roma neighborhood. This phenomenon led to an urban analysis of the neighborhood, focusing on the underutilized terrains that resulted from the tragic event.
Mixed use
Roma Norte, CDMX, México
Light and beauty are tempting. The intervention of a beautiful, ever-changing, luminous and ephemeral form in one of Mexico City's most historic and fashionable areas, Polanco, will become an attractive landmark from the adjoining park and its surroundings.
Tensile fabric architecture
These precast concrete platforms adapt to a variety of conditions: from land, to rock, to sand, to sea, creating an archipelago of activities.
Modular installation
Nicosia, Cyprus
Urban recycling at Veracruz was the exercise subject. Its objective was to rehabilitate the port area, the old train station and the trains’ steer rail area, which partly surround Veracruz’ historical center, and turn them into a new recreational, tourist and financial center.
Master plan
Veracruz, Mexico
Alberto J. Pani Architectural Composition Award 2005 (winner)
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