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News • News • 2 Nov 2023
Mexico’s HMZ House showcases the sculptural beauty of concrete in domestic architecture
Located in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, at la Loma Country Club, the HMZ House by Architect Lucio Muniain is a two-storey home that showcases the sculptural beauty of concrete and its application in domestic architecture.
Edmund Sumner
Designed for a family of six, the primary construction material is concrete embedded with a beton brut effect. Created using a formwork of rough wooden boards, the organic textures carry over from the exterior to the interior realm. Complimenting this is a restrained material palette that includes dark tzalam wood for fixtures and floors, and black steel for window frames and the library’s spiral staircase.
Edmund Sumner
The architects note that sculpture has always been an... More
Project • By Volhuma Arquitectura • Private Houses
Casa Green Heart
The design concept of this room house is to create habitability from a central garden that allows general lighting and ventilation of all common and private areas, as a reinterpretation of what were the courtyards in the haciendas. In this project a space was created inside / outside that would give us the feeling of spaciousness becoming a protagonist from the projection of lights and shadows of the pergolate towards the different continuous spaces, seeking to be an extension of them, giving rhythm to this green heart, being equally part of the interior facade of the house. Emotions generated through light, color and Volhumen. More