The house is located in a conventional land inside a gated community, west of Guadalajara?s metropolitan area. Is has a north orientation towards the street and south on the back, leaving a free area on the side facing west.

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Architects: Hernández Silva Arquitectos

Location: Guadalajara, JAL, Mexico

Architect In Charge: Jorge Luis Hernández Silva

Team: Alejandro Aponte Gómez, Roberto Peña Rodríguez

Area: 531.0 sqm

Project Year: 2012

Photography: Carlos Díaz Corona

The house is located in a conventional land inside a gated community, west of Guadalajara?s metropolitan area. Is has a north orientation towards the street and south on the back, leaving a free area on the side facing west.
© Carlos Díaz Corona

The project begins at the idea of ??making a house with the minimum of walls to feel it completely transparent and open from the entry. We decided to make a big hole inside that takes back the old spanish patio, being the protagonist of the residence.

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The formal concept is based on a blind volume, the private part, and an open volume, which are interrelated through this large central void. The house appears as a white solid body in second level and an obscurer lower body. A Piacentina stone covered wall confines the...