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Ensconced in lush natural surroundings, Los Helechos—named after the ferns on the property— is an oasis of calm in the frenzy of Mexico City. Located in Bosques de Santa Fe, the house is firmly planted in the landscape and has strongly defined volumes. Its large picture windows create delightful ambiences and afford spectacular views. Caption The ample interiors articulate the house’s different levels with clean lines and a constant interplay between light, materials and local vegetation. Being a large residence, all bedrooms have en suite bathrooms and closets, with designs that are less utilitarian and more like spas and zones for relaxation, while also benefitting from natural lighting. Caption The living ar... More

The typology of the project constituted as a multi-family residential building, seeks to generate a spatiality that responds to the collective imaginary of housing with a traditional architectural language and a contemporary color palette. Meanwhile, facing the current demands and the diversity of the inhabitants; flexibility is proposed both in the units and in the common spaces. FilmandoBA Sabrina Carnero Antonella Simao Sabrina Carnero Sabrina Carnero Sabrina Carnero Sabrina Carnero Team: Architects: One Place Design and Construction Management: Costanza Batistoni Construction Manager: Alan Blanch Construction Manager: Leandro Colonna Site Documentation: Georgina Bordoy Photographers: Antonella S... More

The area of ​​370m2 is spread over two floors. The ground floor is the living part of the house with a large living room open to the garden and a dining room and kitchen in the front part of the building. A characteristic element that organizes and divides the space is a black "box" integrating in its form both the functional elements of the above-mentioned key functions of the daily zone of the house as well as several supplementary rooms and vertical communication (stairs). MUS ARCHITECTS, photos: Janina Tynska The black cuboid is placed centrally between the living room and the kitchen and dining room. MUS ARCHITECTS, photos: Janina Tynska On the one hand, there is a fireplace and furniture that forms the wall of the living r... More

Meeting the residents' desire to obtain large spaces in a light atmosphere, using delicate colors, this project seeks to value two important characteristics of the apartment: its great natural light and its large social area.The dining, living and television rooms are arranged in a single environment that is integrated to the gourmet terrace and kitchen. The 12 meter long ripped panel acts as a backdrop for all the social area. The hinged doors are camouflaged in the same panel, connecting the kitchen, the dining room and the door that gives access to the intimate area of the apartment, sheltering the entire wooden-clad entrance hall.  The predominance of white walls, slatted panel, metal shelves, ceramics, corian countertops, cur... More

Housing architecture reflects the way in which we understand our being-in-the-world, and represents the conjunction of wishes, wills, emotions and ideals. The imagination process in the construction of space is, at the same time, the most basic and the most complex exercise, understanding that the house is life’s actual scenario.  We decided to abandon housing’s typological palette, rejecting trending catalogues that imprison new ways of imagining the house as a construction that must morph and transform according to life’s constant changes. We didn’t conceive objects or forms as the project’s main concern; it is a consequence. The project is conceived as a system of places and relations regulated by a continuous space... More

Dreams + Necessity + Available resources = Project Solving the basic equation of materializing dreams through a bounded Budget, we initiated the construction process of our architectural office. The exercise begins with the experimental transformation process of materials, such as earth, Wood and glass, configuring them between two existing trees: a flame tree, that stays outside but framed, and a guavirá tree, that stands in the middle of the space to share our company.The 30-cm rammed earth walls hold the weight of the roof, resting in only 20 cm of its width, exploiting the structural qualities of this material. All of the furniture and doors are made of recycled wooden forms used in the concrete slab that covers the offic... More

HOUSE WITH A VERTICAL GARDEN The bio-inspired private house, on Travessa do Patrocinio in Lisbon, can be found in the historic yet upmarket neighbourhood of Lapa. The corner on which the house stands represents a kind of urban dead end, as it leads nowhere else. The tiny square on which the plot lies was crying out for a single, attractive building. As no garden or green space was possible in such a narrow urban space, the architects decided to transfer the desired greenery to the façade of the building. Covered with vegetation As the house, with a total floor space of 248 m², is intended for the top end of the market, it needed an innovative and eye-catching look. The green façade absorbs CO2, improves air quality, and works as a... More