Mexican structure agency César Béjar Studio has sandwiched a minimalist pink home between two buildings in Culiacán, Mexico, whereas bringing mild into its centre by way of atriums and voids.
Accomplished in 2020, Casa en Tres Rios is roofed totally in a pinkish-red hue, giving the constructing a starkly completely different look than its white and wooden neighbours on both facet.
“Keen to be the best family within the neighborhood, the home is freed from the ornaments that the completely different supplies are likely to evoke,” mentioned architect César Béjar. “Its high quality lies in being monochrome.”
The 330-square-metre home sits on an extended slim plot, walled in on its longer sides by the adjoining constructions.
Its entrance elevation contains a door and a bi-folding gate at avenue degree, which open onto a forecourt with house for parking, and a heavy cube-like quantity lifted above.
The minimalist structure and the intense render “breaks the encompassing plasticity by the distinction of color, form and texture”, in keeping with Béjar.
The higher portion features a single opening, revealing a glass door that opens onto a small balcony.
This recessed, south-facing aperture can be partially open to a different bigger balcony and the sky above, however shaded by the overhang.
Because of the web site constraints, the home options varied courtyard areas and voids that permit mild into its central areas.
“The 2 double heights intertwine and join the entire home,” mentioned Béjar. “When coming into and looking out up, the gaze is misplaced and the home is extended, the sensation of narrowness is muffled and its situation finds freshness on account of this spatial high quality.”
On the bottom ground, the double-height dwelling and eating space is positioned between the forecourt and a potted backyard, whereas the kitchen faces onto this backyard and a again patio past.
Pink render additionally covers the partitions of those pockets of out of doors house, reflecting off the white interiors and imbuing them with a blush-like glow.
In the meantime, a clerestory window on the prime of one other atrium within the dwelling’s core is tinted yellow, washing the areas beneath in a sunny hue that contrasts the pink.
The impact is just like that steadily utilized by famed Mexican architect Luis Barragán in his residential areas.
“The ambiance of the home comes from the colors,” Béjar mentioned.
“Between the pink of the patios that bounces and enters the home, and that of the direct overhead yellow mild that mixes with pink and averages the tones on these impartial surfaces.”
One degree up, a bed room suite is positioned at every finish of the home, whereas a platform-like dwelling space within the centre overlooks the 2 voids.
An extra bed room and loo occupy the highest ground, with entry to the enclosed balcony on the entrance, and a studio house opens onto one other bigger terrace on the rear.
Béjar just lately accomplished a minimalist seaside home in Nuevo Vallarta, in collaboration with Fernando Sanchez Zepeda, and was a part of the workforce that labored on the Ederlezi residence in Monterrey that’s shortlisted within the city home class of Dezeen Awards 2023.
Béjar can be one in every of Mexico’s most outstanding architectural photographers, and has captured tasks throughout the nation by companies together with CO-LAB, Esrawe Studio, Zeller & Moye and 1540 Arquitectura.
The images is by César Béjar.
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Architects: César Béjar Studio
Builder: José Roberto Béjar
