Located on the outskirts of San José Insurgentes in Mexico City, Capuchinas 34 is a housing project of 6 levels, in which the building is resolute in a rectangular asymmetric volume of moderate height that distributes 4 apartments, 1 Pent-House and 2 Roof Gardens. The architectural program unifies 3 bedrooms with bathroom and dressing room each, living room, dining room, TV room, kitchen, laundry room in areas between 154.45 m2 and 221.51 m2. The idea of designing an "underground" parking lot without generating large volumes of digging forced the main access to rise 1.40 m regarding to the sidewalk level through a staircase, which leads to a wide lobby, in which the combination of wood, glass and stone materials in gray and white tones are present.
Following this diagram, the first department was linked to the access plant causing that the house was reduced in its social area, nevertheless it was managed to compensate through the creation of a discovered deck in the back of the terrain and an inner courtyard in the heart of the building. From the 2nd level onwards and the following, the structural and functional scheme allowed the generation of loose spaces that integrate the public area with a terrace in which, through planters as aesthetic elements, it manage to contain the area and, in turn, create a relationship between the nature of the context and the essence of the project. The palette of materials that conforms the aesthetics of the building responds to the integration of 3 elements: vegetation, light and transparency, this way predominates the use of apparent concretes, steel and aluminum window frames, generating a facade moving away of the uniformity that usually means a residential building.
