4.1.4 House

This weekend house located in the Jurica Campestre community seeks to redefine the concept of a retreat home by defragmenting its core program in four main volumes.

The house is conceived as a central house and three independent suites or volumes. This configuration of modules makes the house central core a plaza where one can enjoy a variety of outdoor activities. These main spaces of the house create an interior-exterior relationship where the interior is well connected to nature and its surroundings, creating this way its own context.

The house, from the beginning, was placed on a 5x5m  grid and this helped position and have flexibility during the creative process where one could reconfigure the relationship between volumes. The name 4.1.4 house derived from its massing consisting of one central house, four main volumes, one central plaza and four plazas or patios. The project takes a starting point by placing the four components of the house on the site. The main house of approximately 155 sqm is lived from a central courtyard that acts as a distribution of the program such as kitchen living, dining, and main bedroom, as well as filters light to all the public areas. The suites (cubes) of just 25 sqm makes a playful shadow and depth of field and creates its own context by being placed around the central plaza, these rooms allocate a bedroom, a bath, dressing room, so they can operate independently forming the house and providing privacy.

4.1.4 House, Jurica, Queretaro, Mexico
Program: holiday house
Architects: AS/D Asociación de Diseño (Paola Morales Orantes + Fernando Velasco Rivera Torres)
Project team: Santiago García de Letona, Adela Rochmann, Eduardo Palomino, Piergianna Mazzoca, Fernando Polidura
Contractor: VQZ Arquitectura + AS/D Asociación de Diseño
Structural engineering: Carlos Vargas
Area: 270 sqm
Completion: 2014