The project consists in creating an extension of an existing hermitage dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the south of the Topochico Hill, just above the Croc locality in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

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Architects: Comunidad Vivex, S-AR

Location: Croc, 64200 Monterrey, N.L., Mexico

Architects In Charge: César Guerrero, Ana Cecilia Garza

Construction: Gustavo Rojas, Comunidad de la Parroquia de San Rafael Arcángel de Monterrey

Client: Parroquia de San Rafael Arcángel de Monterrey

Area: 0.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal

Collaborators: Carlos Morales, Diego Galarza
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Text description provided by the architects. The project consists in creating an extension of an existing hermitage dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, located at the south of the Topochico Hill, just above the Croc locality in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Axonometric

This hermitage originally had an adoration room of approximately 15 square meters and a porch of similar dimensions. The adoration room was in good conditions, so the decision of preserving it within the project was made, creating only a few new openings to the walls to generate a better illumination and ventilation to the complex. The porch and the metallic sheet roof were removed in order to create a space to con...