Located in the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia, in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, the house is configured around a central patio that acts as an extension of the interior spaces. It is a pergola patio, whose pergola allows mitigating the high prevailing solar incidence in this area of northern Mexico but also to contain the space and provide it with a porous boundary that allows us to feel protected in an interior space to the exterior.
Picking up the European medieval tradition, the main floor of the house is one level above the street; This gives it greater thermal comfort but above all it gives it great privacy and allows you to have large openings without being observed from street level. All the public uses of the house are located on this main floor: living room, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room and TV room. they are organized around the central courtyard and open to it, building a continuum between the rooms and the pool contained between the courtyard walls, and open to the adjacent garden.
The upper floor is reserved for the private areas of the house. 3 bedrooms and a study open through large terraces and windows to the impressive views of the Sierra Madre de Monterrey. The ground floor contains a cinema, play area and service areas. Despite such an elementary programmatic organization on the different floors of the house, the spatial reading is organized through a single vertical gap, building an intricate space of crossed views that turns the void into the real protagonist of the project.
The House was made for the SorteoTEC. It will be raffled and all the profits obtained will go to scholarships for low-income students.