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REFURBISHMENT IN ARCHITECTUREpresented by the MINI Clubman

EXTENSION • VALLE DE BRAVO, MEXICO

L Residence / LANZA Atelier

Curated by Daniela Cruz

February 20, 2018 Share

Architects: LANZA Atelier

Area: 58.0 m²

Year: 2016

Manufacturers: Kohler, Helvex, Masluz, KömmerlingSave

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Text description provided by the architects. The project of L residence derives from the need to create a new

connection to the dormitories of an existing dwelling in the Valle de Bravo, in a beautiful natural

environment. Until now, the houses were accessed through the other ones, so the owners did not feel

comfortable inviting friends since they could not o�er them a certain intimacy. The initial project also

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included a new independent two-floors volume that operated as an apartment with living room, bedroom,

bathroom and a small kitchen.

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We proposed to solve both with a single element. A curve that connected the old house and the new volume

forming a new circulation, a path that is compressed and expanded as it is traveled. The intersection of this

line with the preexistence provided a lateral access to the residence and, therefore, some internal changes in

the disposition of the dormitory and bathroom that were totally reformulated. Here, locally produced

materials were used to reformulate them in a contemporary way.

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Finally, the autonomous volume was postponed and it was decided to build only the connection. Somehow

the project was reduced to a corridor on inclined planes. And that seemed even more interesting.

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Recall the words attributed to Alejandro de la Sota: the architect always gives hare per cat. In Fabrizio, Spain,

there is a saying: "to give a cat for a hare", since during the civil war it was served a boiled cat saying that it

was a hare (which, since then, means to deceive someone to give something worse than the person is

buying). This phrase, therefore, means just the opposite: giving hare per cat is giving someone something

better that is being bought.

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We reflect on how the new communication needs between environments have been changing, throughout

history, the basic design of a house. And in how a program normally undervalued, such as a simple

circulation, can become much more, as the stairs of Spain Square in Rome, for example.

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This new space introduces, on the one hand, a new vanishing point and a new flow logic in the former

residence. On the other hand, it is an experience, fundamentally through the light treatment with the use of

skylights that value the textures of the brick. This suggests a moment to contemplate the exterior, the

garden, from a semi-interior which, being on a slope, opens outwards in di�erent ways.

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Thus, we create a second facade for the residence that disconnects from the original, with the memory of the

first curve drawn, to allow many things to happen between them.

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Address: Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, Mexico

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