t38 studio + pablo casals aguirre: ph4

Upper volume has a 7 meter cantilever

located in tijuana, méxico, ph4 house’s main objective is to create a balance between privacy and openness, the project was mainly developed from two constraints. the first one is that the house will be inhabited by an elderly couple, so most of the program is on the first floor, a long glass and concrete box which breaks in the transition between the public and private space. Superimposed is a solid volume which fragments itself in the opposite direction as the one below, ending in a 7 meter cantilever. the second is the site, a triangle in which only 10 meters are facing the street, the rest of the perimeter is adjacent to other houses. it was decided to set the main volume on the center of the site, thus creating connections between interior and exterior along the succession of programatic spaces. Project Architects: T38 studio + Pablo Casals-Aguirre Team: Alfonso Medina, Pablo Casals-Aguirre, Mauricio Kuri, Oscar González Collaborators: Lucía Arroyo, Alina Castañeda y Adriana Medina. Construction: Taller38 Project Year: 2010 Construction: 2011 Site surface: 496m2 Built surface: 358m2 Location: México, Tijuana, Baja California. Photographs : Pablo Casals-Aguirre, Alfonso Medina.

Most of the lower floor glass opens to the garden