Juan Cano I is a residential project in Mexico City with a townhouse typology that has been gaining strength within the context of the city to attend to population growth demands.
A characteristic of this urban model is the narrow lots, so to incorporate the requirements in a plot with a 6m front and 30m long, we vied for a vertical building that would occupy a smaller area of the land and take advantage of the rest to generate voids that generates visual transparency from side to side.
The architecture is guided by the existing trees on the plot we decided to preserve. In front, on a free area, a mass that houses the program was placed, while the backside is a patio with multiple possibilities of use throughout the day. This approach allows opening the house onto the street and the backyard simultaneously, creating an east-west axis that governs the views, circulation, and layout. On the other hand, to provide more privacy, we decided to raise the habitable area.
The connection between the different floors is given by a block of stairs that allows free continuous circulation. It's possible to go from the street to the studio on the last level without crossing any other area,
An important design aspect was to mimic the house with its urban context; therefore, the facade became black. Instead, the interior has light walls and warm tones of wood in the furniture and woodwork.
Juan Cano I is a project that seeks new proposals for a growing housing concept. We based on the idea of living the house in two forms and moments: the exterior and the interior, the built and the unbuilt space.
