We received a commission from a married couple to design a house to be built on a small plot (with an 8-meter frontage and a depth of 30 meters) inserted within a dense and difficult context. The couple, whose children had already left home, asked us for a simple house, obstruction-free and with a strongly contemporary feel.

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Architects: Muñoz Arquitectos

Location: Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Architect In Charge: Javier Muñoz Menéndez

Project Team: Gareth Lowe Negrón, Iza Pérez Jaramillo, Javier Ceballos Cabañas

Area: 219.55 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: David Cervera

Engineer: Jorge Pino Gamboa
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From the architect. We received a commission from a married couple to design a house to be built on a small plot (with an 8-meter frontage and a depth of 30 meters) inserted within a dense and difficult context. The couple, whose children had already left home, asked us for a simple house, obstruction-free and with a strongly contemporary feel.

© David Cervera

The layout is based on the idea of using the frontage and the rear extension without interruptions to give a sense of space even with the small area available. 

Floor Plans

Two axes were defined along the ends of the building, each measuring 1.5 meters wi...