Casa 9X20 takes it’s name from the dimensions of the plot where it is built. Located in an industrial warehouses area, which has been transforming into housing developments over the years, the house is part of a small development with barely a couple of streets and 70 available plots that have the same dimensions.
Casa 9x20
Mexican studio S-AR designed a single family house in Monterrey that presents a textured surface made with concrete blocks, arranged to avoid an overheating of the front walls.
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- 23 January 2017
- Monterrey
The house has now two complete levels and one incomplete level waiting for a future expansion, when the family requires more space. The ground floor includes the social area and general services. This floor is defined as an open plan space, enclosed by a lateral patio-aisle, a large core of services, a backyard and the garage. An aisle of services is delimited from the main area by a large continuous piece of furniture, which organizes the interior space, giving service to both sides: the social area and the services aisle.
The second floor includes the private spaces of the house, such as the family living room, the main bedroom and two smaller rooms for the sons. The third level is a rooftop terrace that can be occupied in the future as a playroom or a studio. The built volume is illuminated by the light that filters through the lateral patio and the backyard that separate the house from the neighbor buildings, as well as by the stairs volume, used as a conductor to bring light from the street into the core of the house. In this way, the interior spaces always receive some kind of indirect natural lighting.
The facade presents a textured surface made with concrete blocks arranged to avoid an overheating of the front walls, providing shade to the facade’s surface at all times. This is used as a simple bioclimatic cooling strategy due to the southern orientation of the house’s front facade, which during most of the day receives direct sun radiation.
Casa 9X20, Monterrey, Mexico
Program: single family house
Architects: S-AR
Design team: Cesar Guerrero, Ana Cecilia Garza, Carlos Flores, Maria Sevilla (architects in charge), Marisol Gonzalez (collaborator)
Construction: Gonzalo Tamez
Area: 227 sqm
Completion: 2016