Casa 4 Planos by Dear Architects - Living “inside out”

Casa 4 Planos by Dear Architects - Living “inside out”

CASA 4 PLANOS, A Home for Living “inside out” - This residential design by Dear Architects was completed in 2010 in Santa Catarina city of México. The house is rested on 300 sqm built area, with 200 sqm plot and 138 sqm foot print, having the same size to the firm’s previous single family housing project in Monterrey.

Drawings and Diagrams:

CASA 4 PLANOS, Living “inside out”

With a double ulterior motive, assure the views to the mountains and provide the living areas contact with the interior outdoors, a 10m cube is placed 10m behind the street limit, inducing the division of the plot on four frames of 5m X 10m; fragmentation that permits to incorporate the garden as the void that articulates the relationship between the volume of the house and the frontal access/garage volume.

At first floor level, in axis with the main access, and 15m with the exterior limit, a change of material announces the access to the private area: a pass way that embraces the lineal ascend towards the bedrooms’ hall, from where you discover a higher space, a 25 feet high open space that allows a ray of light that traces time by the sun path moving through the walls that confine the tower. This void receives a staircase that sets out a continuous ascend towards the family room and the master bedroom.

The character that the house transmits to the exterior is given by the sobriety of its 4 planes, which are distinguished by its change in height and the arrangement of its openings given by the relationship that each bedroom establishes with the exterior; searching for a view and an specific light-shadow effect to complete the tacit sense of inhabitance.

Key materials: Reinforced concrete, CEMEX, Pumice block, Vulkano, Plaster, Pine wood triplay
Softwares used: AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Ecotect, Photoshop, Illustrator

Collaborators: Margarita Flores, Rubén Octavio Sepúlveda Chapa, Abel Salazar, Lorena Darquea, Ana Paulina Reyes
Photo Credits: Karen Mendoza, Dear Architects

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