Casa Zirahuen is the first stage of a two twin house project that create a small dwelling in a residential area in Querétaro's periphery. Facing the residential monotony in typology and isolation of the area generated between the 7 meters high adjoining walls, the proposal’s idea based on shaping a different integration to the site, one that dignifies and offers better ways of living in its outside and inside space.

© Marcos Betanzos

Architects: Intersticial Arquitectura

Location: Querétaro, Mexico

Author Architects: Ian Pablo Amores, Rodolfo Unda

Collaboratos: Gildardo Olvera, Andrea Oliveros, María José Milke, Mauricio Salmón

Area: 350.0 m2

Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Marcos Betanzos , Diego Cosme

© Marcos Betanzos

From the architect. Casa Zirahuen is the first stage of a two twin house project that create a small dwelling in a residential area in Querétaro's periphery. Facing the residential monotony in typology and isolation of the area generated between the 7 meters high adjoining walls, the proposal’s idea based on shaping a different integration to the site, one that dignifies and offers better ways of living in its outside and inside space.

© Marcos Betanzos

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