3 Patios House is a modern two-story house located in Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico, designed in 2018 by Once Once Arquitectura.

Description
Casa 3 Patios was a project assignment for a Client to live the house with her teenage son. The program was to design a modern home that could be enjoyed in different ways in its interior and exterior spaces, to provide solutions for climatic comfort with passive and active energy systems, enhance state of the art sustainable solutions, and to be of commercially attractive if wanted to be sold.
We decided to approach the program creating a big central patio fully covered of a red Mexican granite stone, Porfido, mostly used as a floor finish in colonial plazas and courtyards to give authenticity and character. This patio was carefully thought to be closed with a glass facade on its south-east side and a skylight roof to receive the first sun rays and heat itself and the rest of the house by thermal mass heat radiation in winter season and to fully open and cool the house in summer time. This glass façade and skylight roof is accompanied with a steel lattice skin that has the quality of sliding with a rail system (in the skylight) and opening (in the façade) regulating the amount of sunlight and ventilation to come in. The guava tree in the center gives a sculptural mood, fruit, and in summer time, a nice shadowed area. The house is entered by the Northeast corridor through a wild landscaped garden slowly...