New York architecture studio Young & Ayata and Mexico City office Michan Architecture collaborated on DL1310, an apartment block with an exposed concrete facade.
Located in Mexico City's Tetelpan neighbourhood, DL1310 has a distinctive facade of recessed windows framed by twisting board-marked concrete.
Board-marked concrete is left bare on the exterior
"The concrete striation patterns on the exterior concrete casts are both a design intention as well as a way of working with traditional formwork techniques towards alternative aesthetics," Young & Ayata co-founder Kutan Ayata told Dezeen.
A total of 22 glazed opening puncture all four sides of the four-storey apartment block, each one rotated to created inverted bay windows.
The seven apartments have inverted bay windows Windows are a mix of openable rectangular windows and long trapezoidal-shaped floor-to-ceiling glazing. Tinted grey glass in aluminium frames complements the raw concrete exterior.
Young & Ayata and Michan Architecture selected cast concrete for DL1310, which contains seven apartments, for several reasons.
Cast concrete is a popular construction material in the city
For one, it allowed for a seamless transition between the slab concrete frame and the exterior, which transitions from straight angles to curved lines and back.
Using cast concrete for buildings is also a popular construction method in Mexico City, making it a cost-effective and time-saving material choice.
Board-marked con...