Iida global excellence awards

The Project is located in a set of houses built in the forties, in a block of the Polanco neighbourhood in Mexico City. The block has been subjected through the years to an endless number of constant and repeated alterations, not only in its architecture but also in its purpose (from residential to commercial). Nowadays very little remains of what was originally a well structured block, with a formal and well defined clarity. With all the alterations that the building suffered added to its original residential design, the house was subdivided into many small rooms, suffering for a lack of natural light and ventilation, becoming an obscure labyrinth. The project was solved by two premises that transformed the multiplicity of spaces into a... More