green metal accents bring color to amasa estudio's 1940s home renovation in mexico city

Amasa Estudio breathes new life inTO 80-year-old mexican house

Amasa Estudio renovates a long-abandoned 1940s house in Colonia Roma, just six blocks from Parque México in one of Mexico City’s most sought-after neighborhoods. Originally used as office space, Casa Sofia sat empty for over ten years. Rather than demolish or replace it, the architects preserved the structure and gave it new life. The result is a compact, flexible home that respects its past while making room for new ways of living. 

The material palette reinforces the spatial mood. A muted green saturates the metal elements, stairs, railings, doors, and furniture, while textured gray plaster walls create a neutral backdrop and allow these features to pop.

all images by Zaickz Moz, unless stated otherwise

three different entrances give Casa Sofia a flexible setup

What began as a plan for a single-family home evolved into something more adaptable. In the Casa Sofia project, the Mexican architects of Amasa Estudio fit a ground-floor one-bedroom apartment, a garage that doubles as a small commercial unit, and a main residence located above. All three have separate entrances from a shared vestibule, making it possible to rent or work from parts of the property while maintaining privacy. 

Inside the main residence, the layout flips the usual logic. Bedrooms are tucked away on the first floor, and a spiral staircase leads up to a second level with the kitchen, living room, dining area, half bath, and open terrace. This entire floor is open-plan, wrapped in folding windows. A circular skylight over the staircase floods the vertical core with daylight, pulling light down into the more enclosed floors below.

Amasa Estudio renovates a long-abandoned 1940s house in Colonia Roma

the building was originally used as office space

Casa Sofia sat empty for over ten years

the flexible home respects its past

making room for new ways of living

the material palette reinforces the spatial mood

a muted green saturates the metal elements

stairs, railings, doors, and furniture are all painted in the same color | image by Gerardo Reyes Bustamante

the skylight brings light down the staircase into the more enclosed floors

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the project began as a plan for a single-family home | image by Gerardo Reyes Bustamante

the result is an adaptable dwelling | image by Gerardo Reyes Bustamante

separate entrances from a shared vestibule lead inside | image by Gerardo Reyes Bustamante

the bathroom adopts a bright interior | image by Gerardo Reyes Bustamante

yellow tiles clad the walls and the floor

unlike the project’s signature green, the bathroom uses a contrasting color scheme

 

image by Gerardo Reyes Bustamante

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

image by Gerardo Reyes Bustamante

image by Gerardo Reyes Bustamante

Facade by Amasa Estudio

Section by Amasa Estudio

Ground Floor Plan by Amasa Estudio

First Floor Plan by Amasa Estudio

Second Floor Plan by Amasa Estudio

Isometric roof by Amasa Estudio

project info:

name: Casa Sofia
architect: Amasa Estudio | @amasa__estudio

location: Colonia Roma, Mexico City, Mexico

area: 215 square meters

lead architects: Andrea López | @androide08, Agustín Pereyra | @a_pereyra

client: ECOBIART Inmobiliaria

constructor: Erik Cortés Ortega

restructuring engineering: Juan Felipe Heredia | @jfheredia

installations engineering: Germán Muñoz

lighting: Andrea López, Agustín Pereyra

team: Cesar Huerta, Gerardo Reyes

photographers: Zaickz Moz | @zaickz.moz, Gerardo Reyes Bustamante | @gerardorbustamante