The Household in Singuilucan is found in the central-jap point out of Hidalgo in Mexico. Built by Edgar Rodriguez of Mexico-based mostly Operadora, the dwelling sits on a internet site that is reminiscent of the North American prairie, on a ranch abutting a valley of close by hills. This context of the sky, mountains on the horizon, the valley, rocks and vegetation are a portrayal of the geography of Mexico, recognized as a symbol of nationwide identity by the 19th century Mexican artist José María Velasco by means of his series of paintings of the Mexican landscape.
Via the ‘El Valle de Mexico’—The Valley of Mexico series, the naturalist painter not only captures the geography of the region, but also illustrates sprawls of architecture community to the context. These seemingly inconsequential symbols of vernacular architecture—characterised by an casual aggregation of volumes, and a sequence of horizontal planes—apprise the residential design of this little household on the Mexican ranch.
The strategy of this Velascan landscape is designed mostly by the façade style and design of the household architecture, manifested by means of an irregular silhouette versus the stark landscape. The profile of the elevation steps up and down in a seemingly arbitrary configuration, but is in point a reflection of the volumes it accommodates. The volume of the dwelling locations and bed room spaces development upwards, when the toilets and other service areas are smaller volumes. The façade is least expensive in entrance of out of doors areas, which are adjacent to the two bedrooms. The solidity of the external wall is punctuated with massive fenestrations, bringing in a great deal of all-natural mild to the inside.
The elevation on the other close of the irregular profile is characterised by sloping roofs with deep eaves, albeit limited to the volumes of the habitable spaces i.e the bedrooms, kitchen, and bathrooms. The exterior of the brick architecture is an expression of that horizontality, as an impersonation of the vernacular built type observed in Velasco’s paintings. This horizontality is further more enhanced as a result of the use of a stretcher bond in the building of the brick partitions. The extended, constant, horizontal traces produced by the mortar also assist in intensifying this easy, still conspicuous notion rooted in the context the creating sits in.
The plan is incarnated from the stepped elevation, and organises alone together this profile to accommodate the spaces inside linearly. 100 ft in size, the entrance of the residence is by way of the centrally found living space, which prospects to the two bedrooms on both aspect, therefore making certain privacy though simultaneously getting rid of lengthy corridors in an arrangement that is acutely linear. The toilet place is a shared room, segregated functionally, and accessed from each of the bedrooms, with a small passage in entrance of the clean basin. Adjacent to the two bedrooms, out of doors areas split the mass of the created type, though simultaneously supplying a common area for the users to collect and delight in the wide open up area outside.
Outside of a single of the bed room courtyards, a little storage space with an adjacent out of doors room extends the linear mass. The outdoor areas at every single conclude of the house are open up from 3 sides, with the wall of the stepped elevation on the fourth aspect, prolonged as these kinds of to accentuate the phenomena of linearity in the program.
Although the elevation is an expression in horizontality, the program is determined by its linearity. The absence of corridors allows for a format exactly where the entrance of every single area is aligned with the entrance of the place adjacent to it. Therefore a 100-toes extended enfilade—cutting throughout the length of the plan—creates a vista that visually connects all the areas inside, equally private and general public.
The Home in Singuilucan is as a result a up to date architecture interpretation of an identification that was accorded to Mexican architecture in the 19th century, by way of the get the job done of José María Velasco.
Task Aspects
Identify: Dwelling in Singuilucan

Location: Singuilucan, México

Place: 80 sqm

Yr of Completion: 2022

Architect: Operadora

Direct Architect: Edgar Rodriguez

Staff: Alexis Ávila, José Juan Garay

Manufacturers: AutoDesk Cementos Cruz Azul, Fester, Rotoplas, Ternium