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DCPP Arquitectos fits Mexico City residence around a network of courtyard gardens

This Mexico City residence by DCPP Arquitectos features pivoting doors and sliding glass walls, allowing rooms to open out to the cobbled and herringbone-brickwork courtyards around its perimeter (+ slideshow).

Jardín House by DCPP

Local studio DCPP Arquitectos designed Jardín House for a plot in the city's San Angel neighbourhood, with an aim to mould the residence around a series of interconnected gardens and courtyards.

The two-storey building is approximately T-shaped in plan, dividing the interior into three main wings.

Jardín House by DCPP

"The shape of the house comes from the idea to take advantage of the area of the property to keep a garden as large and as uniform as possible," said the studio.

"With the intention to merge the interior with the exterior, was conceived a volume that splits in two the garden space to give the visual continuity."

Jardín House by DCPP

Wide sliding doors front most of the ground-floor rooms, giving each its own perspective of the grounds.

Herringbone-patterned parquet flooring features inside these living spaces, and the same pattern continues out onto the brick patios, helping to connect indoor and outdoor spaces. Weeds have been allowed to grow up through the gaps in the brickwork.

Jardín House by DCPP

Glazed walls allows views through the house from the gardens, while a pair of high-level windows set above the front and back doors flood the entrance hall with light.

Jardín House by DCPP

Walls project from the facade between each of the rooms, creating privacy for the succession of spaces.

While the primary rooms are arranged around the gardens at ground level, a guest room sits on the smaller upper floor and has its own private terrace.

Jardín House by DCPP

Broad steel beams support this upper floor guest room, facilitating an open-plan and column-free living space at ground level.

Jardín House by DCPP

"The house was designed to work on one level, with the main bedroom and services included on the ground floor, and leaving a guest bedroom on the top floor," explained the architects.

Jardín House by DCPP

"To avoid placing central columns in the room, we chose to integrate big steel beams, which together provide a unique twist to the housing, and a variant game of shadows."

Jardín House by DCPP

DCPP Arquitectos is led by architects Pablo Pérez Palacios and Alfonso de la Concha Rojas. Other projects by the pair include a textile warehouse with white stone walls and a black house with a high-walled courtyard.

Photography is by Rafael Gamo.


Project credits:

Architecture: DCPP Arquitectos
Team: Pablo Pérez Palacios, Alfonso de la Concha Rojas
Construction: DCPP Constructions

Jardín House by DCPP
Ground floor plan – click for larger image
Jardín House by DCPP
First floor plan – click for larger image
Jardín House by DCPP
Roof plan – click for larger image
Jardín House by DCPP
Section one – click for larger image
Jardín House by DCPP
Section two – click for larger image