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Casa Olguín in Jalisco
Private Property Development in M̩xico Рdesign by Abraham Cota Paredes Arquitectos
15 Feb 2017
Olguín House
Architects: Abraham Cota Paredes Arquitectos
Location: Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, Jalisco, México
Casa Olguín

On the first appointment I had with the client, we talked about the most substantial things about the project, the usual; number of bedrooms, bathrooms, and how the spaces were going to be vinculated.

The client also brought some magazines, so I could understand her ideas by seeing photos of projects and details that had caught her eye. At the end, I had the opportunity to perceive what was on her mind, and as a starting point we knew, that the house had to break with the scheme the neighboring houses had already delimitated.
Once I started with the first diagrams, I understood that giving the client the big and ostentatious house she wanted inside a 135 sqm plot was going to be very difficult. With that said I knew I had to play with the space in a way that the perception could comprise the most of it, that?s why I opted for a stepped plan, so I could avoid other houses to overshadow this one in terms of size.

In a traditional Gated community in Jalisco, where slopped roofs, tiles and pastel colors are a must. We saw ourselves limited, in terms of maintaining the purity we wanted at the beginning. We had to explore a bunch...