
Located on Londres Street in Colonia Juárez, the building combines collective housing with ground-floor retail. The proposal makes the most of the site through an organization of two volumes articulated by a central courtyard and a rear courtyard, which ensure natural light and cross ventilation.
The brief called for maximizing the use of the lot through two- and three-bedroom units. To achieve this, one volume faces the street while the other is set toward the interior, both connected by two vertical circulation cores. The typologies were organized as a system of interlocking floor plans that avoids direct views between the two volumes, preserving privacy without compromising livability. As a result, each unit opens onto at least one view toward the interior courtyards or the exterior.
This internal logic is expressed on the main façade through a vertical rhythm that alternates windows and planters, in dialogue with the jacaranda tree along the sidewalk.
The main façade was built in exposed concrete pigmented in a reddish tone. The structure is resolved through lightweight slabs and load-bearing vertical cores; toward the interior, the façades are finished in stucco of the same tone, reinforcing material continuity between the exterior surfaces and the courtyards.
Architecture: Bernardo Quinzaños
Collaborators: Santiago Vélez, Begoña Manzano, Andrés Suárez, Cristian Nieves, Samuel Duarte, León Chavez, Sofia Castillo, Eli Ambris, Javier Castillo, Diana Monroy
Photography: Arturo Arrieta
Model Photography: CCA | Bernardo Quinzaños, Vanessa Nieves