Casa L&J in Zapopan by Alvaro Moragrega / arquitecto

Casa L&J sits next to a golf course which influenced the project greatly. An equilibrium between the views and privacy was to be achieved for the clients. The result is an L scheme with the main volume of the house serving as barrier between the private areas and golf course. This volume is done entirely in steel and glass with a pitched roof with black, flat tiles.

Architect: Alvaro Moragrega / arquitecto
Location: Zapopan, México
Year: 2018
Project area: 740 m2
Plot area: 1,890 m2
Design Team: Carlos Ruiz Palomino, Emanuel Goñi, Karen Camacho, María José Galindo, Arthur Dalloni
Structural Design: Cero Motion - Juan Jesús Aguirre
General Contractor: Gruval
Renderings: Artisan Render

From the architect: Said volume functions as a ‘shotgun shack’: an elongated distribution of spaces that permeates from the very public to the private. On one end, where the main entrance is, a great living room has a fireplace, living area, piano and dining area. A stair case is located on one side next to wooden box that encloses the bar and storage area.

This piece of fixed furniture intentionally blocks the views towards the garden and forces the user to contemplate the golf course. Next to the dining room a rammed earth volume, which contains the pantry, laundry room and guest bathroom, separates the great living room from the kitchen and family room, which operates oposite to the living area. It is enclosed by a similar fixed piece of furniture that houses part of the kitchen, a book case with the TV and a small stove. It blocks the view from the golf course and forces itself toward the garden and pool area. Next to the family room, a double hight art studio es located at the end of the volume and has it’s own work patio on one end and on the other the hallway that connects to the bedroom wing of the house.

The bedroom wing is done entirely with rammed earth, it sits 70cm bellow the exterior. It’s wallway has a lateral rhythm of rammed earth columns on one side and wooden walls and doors on the other side which sit between the volumes that house the bathrooms and dressing rooms. The bedrooms all look on to the garden and pool.

The house has been designed to be sustainable, it has solar heating for the pool and radiant floor as well as photovoltaic panels for lighting. The ventilation of the main volume is donde, not only by the moving glass panels in the first floor, but also by roof extraction ventilation. The floors in the main will all be cement and wooden floors will be used in the bedroom wing of the house.

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