Restored Historic Mexican Home and Modern Addition by LABorstudio

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In Chihuahua City, Mexico, architect Rodrigo Seáñez Quevedo of LABorstudio held his first professional offices in an original 1909 building owned by his former professor. Several years later, the owners employed Quevedo and his team to add onto the home in a cohesive way, changing the program from office to residential. During the transformation, great care was taken to preserve the historic structure and reuse existing materials where possible. Notably, clay tiles from the old roof were added to the new balconies, wood formwork from the concrete was reused as wall covering, and uncovered limestone was reused on the patio and gardening floor. The end result is a creative, integrated mixture of old and new, both in materials and architectural plan.
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Casa Ro by Elias Rizo Arquitextos. Jalisso, Mexico.

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Casa RO got a complete overhaul when Elías Rizo Arquitectos came in to renovate the deteriorated 1960s Guadalajara, Mexico residence. The young family had the desire for a warm home and wanted to step away from the cold trends that were going on in architecture by using lots of wood and stone throughout.
Wood not only is the primary covering of the facade, it’s used throughout the interior as well. The wood exterior is a nice contrast to the high white walls that surround both sides of the property.
The terrace runs the width of the house and it’s where the family spends much of their time year round. I would too if I had that pool.
Part of the second floor’s wooden skin is set on rails to allow the family to open the space up to more or less light when desired. The other key space in the home is the double height entrance. The intention of the foyer space is to become a home for sculptures.The rustic tree stumps juxtaposed with the modern clean lines of the wood and flooring materials really breaks the space up. Most of the original marble flooring remains in place on the ground floor.
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Casa Meztitla by EDAA. Mexico

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Casa Meztitla is an intervention of a natural scenario. It showcases the luxurious value of leisure, the tropical weather, the intense sunlight, the smells of nature, the over 500 year-old landscaped terraces and the ever-present rock mountain: El Tepozteco. It is context in itself. The house, built out of rough stone, crawls low under the trees, aligned with the vegetated-covered stone slopes. It is the creation of pure space within the natural space (Paz, O., 1987). It has an introverted living yet is continually open to its surroundings. Only two elements reveal its existence to the outside world: the colorful bougainvillea flowers showing randomly through the trees’ dense foliage, which mark the plot’s perimeter; and the massive and monolithic white box that emerges through the treetops.
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