A trio of black-and-white residences line up in a row on a site in northern Mexico, created as a collaboration between architects S-AR and Marisol González.
Casas SP comprises three separate houses, each three storeys tall, constructed very close to one another to form a complex of urban dwellings in the town of San Pedro Garza García.

The residences are similar in shape and layout, but with varying construction materials. These allow the blocks to remain distinct, while the matching exterior colours of white, grey and black visually tie the project together.

"This small housing complex is a sequence of abstract boxes that break down according to the material used to their construction, or to construct their coating, in white brick, corrugated black sheet, or white metallic louvres," said S-AR, based nearby in Monterrey.
"Despite the use of the same scheme in the complex, each house conserves a certain autonomy regarding space, materiality, and architectural language, generating a unique identity in the complex."

To build the complex, a combination of concrete blocks, bricks, steel beams and wood was used. Window placement differs across each building, with a thin horizontal opening across the front of the white volume on the left, and a double-height vertical window spanning the facade of the black unit to the right.

Each of the residences is built on a plot measuring approximately 1,615 square feet (150 square metres) plot.
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