Circular de Morelia 4 is a remodeling and expansion project of a 1930 house, cataloged by the National Fine Arts Institute of Mexico. It’s located in the “Roma Norte” neighborhood, in front of a small park, and next to a vast evergreen tree that frames the main façade of the house.
The challenge of the project was to increase the amount of housing on the property and, at the same time, preserve the old house and its conditions of scale and materiality. Under these guidelines, a new building was constructed that, through an exploration of volumes, is discreetly related to the preexisting house and to the neighboring buildings. Raw concrete was used both as structural solution and as a neutral material that harmonizes with the original material palette.
The end result is a building with five habitable levels and a total of nine apartments with double heights, terraces, balconies and views of the park. The new part of the building is inserted into its context without being disruptive, and the old house comes alive again with new ways of being inhabited.
Team:
Architect: Quintanilla Arquitectos
Photography: Onnis Luque
Material Used:
1. Facade cladding: Concrete - Cemex
2. Flooring: Exterior: Floor tiles – Rayito de sol
3. Windows: Aluminum+Wood, Multivi Window, Multivi
4. Automatization: Lutron
