Location: Singuilucan, Hidalgo, Mexico
Programm: Private Residence
Floor Area: 80 m2
Architects: operadora.
Lead Architect: Edgar Rodriguez
Project Team: Alexis Ávila, José Juan Garay
Status: Built
Year: 2021-2022
Photography: Dane Alonso
House in Singuilucan
Throughout his career, Mexican painter José María
Velasco developed an iconic vision of the Mexican landscape between the end of
the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. His work granted him multiple
national accolades and international recognition, and through it, he ultimately
created a symbol of national identity out of the geography of Mexico. The
painting El Valle de Mexico is considered one of his most important works. In
all seven versions of this painting, the elements of the composition remain
consistent: the sky, mountains on the horizon, the valley, rocks, vegetation,
and vernacular architecture.
These anonymous structures that inhabit Velasco's
rendition of the Valley of Mexico are the departure point for the project of a
small house in a ranch in Singuilucan, Hidalgo.
The house takes the development of the facade as
a medium to replicate the informal aggregation of volumes and horizontality
characteristic of the architectural features in Velasco's paintings. This
irregular silhouette organizes the program linearly in a plan that mirrors the
outline of the facade. In an attempt to further emphasize the flatness of the
building, the wall extends beyond the limits of the rooms containing the
program, creating a linear datum in the plan drawing. The limited programmatic
requirements of the house are stretched-out in a 100-foot-long irregular
enfilade, incorporating a storage room at one end of the house and two outdoor
spaces adjacent to each of the bedrooms.
operadora. is a creative practice
based in Mexico City and Syracuse, NY. Established in 2014, operadora. is led
by Edgar Rodriguez, Alexis Ávila, and José Juan Garay.
Understanding architecture as a
conceptual and operational framework that acts through various media, our
practice aims to develop design strategies that offer an alternative vision of
the contemporary world responding to their specific contexts. Our process
focuses on a research-based conceptual approach to study and act upon spatial
and cultural issues of various types and scales.
info@operadora.xyz
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