House Amsterdam in Mexico City

Located on an almost square lot in the central Hipódromo-Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, the house is surrounded by tall buildings. Placed atop a platform 1.2 meters up from street level, the house is organized around a patio. Each element of the program adopts a different form; a tunnel vault contains the vestibule, the living room and the library; a cube contains the painter’s studio; a rectangular prism, placed on the graded platform that conceals the garage, houses the bedrooms, and a cylinder that cuts a cross the vault contains the services. The whole constitutes a careful combination of different volumes, with slight rotations that optimize views of the patio. Exposed white concrete and Hermosa stone was used for the interior floors and the patio.