18/06/2020
12/12 BRICK TOWNHOUSES
Brick Townhouses is a singular project that reshapes the typical answer to the contemporary expectations regarding habitat in Mexico City. Five city houses with a garden extend themselves through three levels. The project is a blending between the functioning and the height of a residential building and the configuration of adjoining houses. The use of bricks as a low-cost finishing in the façade is very common as a structural element that is left visible and seems to make the façade a neglected element. In the case of the Brick Townhouses, bricks of regular dimensions make the whole of the structure of the houses while a combination of bricks of different lengths come into play to animate the façade. A subject of much experimentation and of consistent attention in the adjusting of the bricks to create a three-dimensional assembly that generates shadows depending on the sun path, making the façade an ever-changing element.
🇲🇽 @ Mexico City, Mexico