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ARCFLY / Architecture / Residential Architecture / The Hill in Front of the Glen by HW STUDIO

The Hill in Front of the Glen by HW STUDIO

An absent architecture illuminates the mystery

Curated by Festim Toshi
1 year ago
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Project Credits & Specs

  • Architecture: HW STUDIO
  • Photography: Cesar Bejar, Dane Alonso, Juan Pablo Guerra
  • Location: Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
  • Area: 250 m2
  • Year: 2021
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  • Lead Architects: Rogelio Vallejo Bores and Oscar Didier Ascencio Castro
  • Design Team: Sergio Antonio Garcia Padilla, Jesus Alejandro Lopez Hernandez, Alberto Gallegos Negrete
  • Video: Mavix / Hugo Tirso Dominguez
  • Construction Company: ARGA Constructora
  • Budget: 350,000 USD
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Project Description

The inspiration behind this project is derived from carefully listening to the subtle murmurs and whispers of environments like this, as well as the client’s search for protection and shelter.

© Dane Alonso
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How can one feel protected? What can be done when one feels vulnerable? This question was accompanied by an image, or perhaps a memory: a frightened child covering himself with a light bed sheet as he peeks out to make sure he can see what is going on around him.

© Cesar Bejar
© Cesar Bejar
© Cesar Bejar
© Cesar Bejar

Pulling a bed sheet over ourselves is a very elemental act that alludes to the most basic part of the self; a bed sheet hides, protects, wraps, and creates a space beneath it that is so safe and intimate as to keep away any spirit, ghost, or demon that may be surrounding the room.

 At the same time, this project generates a continuity in the beautiful living surface around the land, forming a new hill in a place already surrounded by many.

© Dane Alonso
© Cesar Bejar

The architecture is like an accent on the words of a poem, like a comma or a question mark, but never the actual poem itself. The poem is already written by the pines, the oaks, the sweet acacia, the fireflies, the road, the fence, the neighbor’s water well, the earth, the orchard, and the nightingale.

Four concrete walls contribute accents to the poem, surprisingly emerging from the landscape; two of them bear the land of the new hill created by raising the bed sheet, and two others frame the access as they escort guests into the house.

© Dane Alonso
© Dane Alonso

The path is wide enough to walk comfortably alone, yet narrow enough to discourage accompaniment. Visitors are cast into a pilgrimage of solitude that leads to an old tree with such a significant presence that it was necessary to distort the linearity of one of the walls with a gentle curve to be able to pass next to it…so close that it is even possible to graze it.

After crossing the tree threshold, going down a few solid pearled stone steps, and opening a heavy steel door, a concrete vault stands, supporting the loads of the green bed sheet that rests upon it; providing a sensation of being inside a cold, dark, but strangely cozy cave.

© Dane Alonso
© Dane Alonso
© Cesar Bejar
© Juan Pablo Guerra

Concrete was chosen as the main material due to a dream about this new rock melting while inevitably interacting with the forest, changing colors… grays that turned to greens, blacks, and yellows that were gradually incorporated into the environment. The flooring emphasizes an aroma of wood that is perceived when surrounded by pine trees, providing balance to the cold temperature of the concrete; and finally, steel that, with time and rainfall, acquires an appearance like tree bark.

© Cesar Bejar
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As for the spatial organization, public areas on the left side of the house are completely exposed to the wooded ravine, and on the right side are open more timidly to a courtyard with treetops and sky views.

It was important to have very few references of elements that would connect to a specific moment in time, so the refrigerator and appliances were hidden, the lighting was arranged very discreetly, and only the four main materials were included: stone, wood, concrete, and steel. It was very important for the client to preserve the rough and natural atmosphere of being in the mountains.

© Cesar Bejar
© Cesar Bejar

The project description is provided by the architects, via v2com.

About the Architects

HW STUDIO

www.hw-studio.com

HW Studio Architects Morelia, Mexico is an architectural firm founded in 2018 in the city of Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. It is formed by a multidisciplinary group of architects who carry out residential, corporate, and cultural projects. They have a very specific way of approaching their projects to generate subtle, silent, beautiful, functional, meaningful, and inspiring architecture. HW Studio Architects is part of a network formed by architectural firms in Uruguay, Spain, Panama, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, and Russia, with whom they share interests, projects, research, and exchanges. This allows them to solve assignments economically and efficiently outside their national borders.

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TAGGED:2021Cesar BejarConcrete ArchitectureDane AlonsoHouse DesignHW STUDIOJuan Pablo GuerraMexican ArchitectsMexican ArchitectureMexicoMichoacánMinimal ArchitectureMoreliaResidential ArchitectureSustainable Architecture
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