El Campanario House, Santiago de Queretaro Residence, Mexican Property, Images
El Campanario House
Mexican Home: Santiago de Querétaro Residence ? design by Axel Duhart Arquitectos
8 Oct 2016
El Campanario House in Santiago de Queretaro
Location: El Campanario, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
Design: Axel Duhart Arquitectos
New House in Santiago de Queretaro
An unusual contemporary Mexican residence with two rectilinear forms that are set at 90 degrees to each other, one floating above the other, but entwined.
Text from the architects:
Forces that act upon a body, they both compensate and cancel each other out. They are now in balance.

When light and shadow don?t find contrast, they join themselves and become harmony.
Two bodies that come across each other, form a unit and stabilize one another, providing the necessary balance. Grounded on top a metallic structure, its skeleton, which wraps around and incorporates to the structure, sits upon concrete columns.

They bind to the rest of the elements and grant nature to the project that sits upon mounds of grass, revealing the artsy intension of the concrete cantilever that gives its final touch to the structural adventure.

On one side of the building, the almost minimalistic massive walls, shuts out the house from the road, giving privacy from the outside world. Meanwhile, the other side of the house, gives way to ample views of the fairway, through huge floor to ceiling windows that let light in all around and evoque th...