We all must return to crafts!
As Walter Gropius said, “Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity”. I believe architecture is not just about creating buildings but about synthesizing art, craft, and technology to design spaces that inspire and improve human lives. This approach to design, where form and function are seamlessly integrated, allows us to break down the traditional boundaries between disciplines. By fostering collaboration and innovation, we can create environments that evoke emotions, provoke thought, and enhance the well-being of those who inhabit them.
Through my education and experiences, I strive to embody these principles, aiming to design spaces that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also meaningful. This is an archive of selected projects, contains personal and academic works. Each project was made sincerely, with hopes to deliver beauty, meanings, solutions and inspirations.
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Talavera
In collaboration with Mónica Muñoz & Patxi Jauregui
Year November 2023 - Februrary 2024
Location Querétaro
Talavera is a Mexican cuisine restaurant which showcases traditional recipes from all over México, located in a colonial convent in the heart of the historic center of Querétaro, the architectural intervention focuses in the original dining room of the building and aims to enhance it’s historical character.
The house is designated as an UNESCO World Heritage Site, this is why it’s conservation was very important. The main intervention is executed indoors, and on the outside, the main facade was fully restored and preserved.
Inside, the plaster of the walls is removed to unveil the original construction system and highlight the texture of the stone. In contrast, the smooth materiality of the floor and ceiling complements the qualities of the walls, creating the sensation of two floating panels.
The name of the restaurant Talavera refers to a mexican handmade ceramic tile. Therefore, the use of this material plays a prominent role in the project’s conception, seeking to blend the tradition of it with a contemporary implementation.
The front element of the bar features tiles of different formats in cobalt blue and arranged in lines to highlight the horizontality of the space, creating a vibrant and distinctive texture.
On the other hand, the back element of the bar serves an ornamental and bottle storage purpose; it consists of a suspended metal structure attached to the ceiling that holds wooden shelves and tile panels.
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House in jade
In collaboration with Mónica Muñoz & Patxi Jauregui
Year February 2024 - Present (under construction)
Location Querétaro
House in Jade is a single-family home intended for sale in Zibatá, Querétaro. It features a program that includes three bedrooms, two complete bathrooms and a half bathroom, a covered laundry area, living/ dining room, kitchen, and an additional loft for versatile use.
The design in half levels has been conceived to respect the natural slope of the site, allowing an efficient distribution of the architectural program. This layout enables each space to connect seamlessly with the others, ensuring comfort and a sense of spaciousness throughout the interior of the home.
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House in capital sur
In collaboration with Mónica Muñoz & Patxi Jauregui
Year May 2024 - Present (soon under constuction)
Location Querétaro
A single-family home intended for sale. The house is situated on a 100m² terrain and offers a program that includes a living-dining room, kitchen, a covered laundry area and two identical bedrooms, each with its own private bathroom. One of the bedrooms features a private patio, providing additional outdoor space.
The design has been conceived to maximize functionality since the terrain is very small, using block as the main material. This approach not only highlights the architectural structure but also creates a contrast with the surrounding vegetation. The layout of the spaces has been planned to ensure a connection between the interior areas, allowing a sense of spaciousness throughout the home.
Co-farmin’
In collaboration with Carolina Márquez & Melanie Millán
Year January 2020 - December 2020
Final project SOM-TEC studio
Professors MSc. Urb Arch. Diana García & Arch. Pedro Mendoza
How do we feed an entire city? This is one of the most important questions nowadays, yet we can say that more than the half of people cannot answer it, or even ask it. We can easily say that we go to supermarkets to buy our food or restaurants to eat, but we take it for granted that the food comes out of nowhere and it just appears in our tables.
In cities like Queretaro, enough food has to be produced, transported, bought, sold, cooked and disposed. Cities will continue to face new and ongoing challenges in creating enough employement, providing services like water, health, green spaces and sanitation, but most of all enhancing food security, decent housing and education.
Promoting access to food: project program
The project begins with the establishment of housing, we call it “flexible” because it depends on the user, it has a direct relationship with the resource management infrastructure, such as the wetland, solar cells and the biogas generator. The food production involves aeroponics and new farming technologies.
We also propose an educational center, this space is thought as the main catalyst for the interest of urban inhabitants towards productive methods, as well as the importance of providing food security. Finally, a market is projected in which the production of the site can be sold through the farmers themselves and it ensures a regular income to farmers.
Developing local food systems
Local food systems in cities have the potential to have a positive impact: community supported food production, distribution and consumption iniciatives can join forces and improve economical, environmental and social problems we are facing today. This is why we have decided to make a change through design and management. An innovative way to start ongoing resilient cities, defining the relationship between food, city, community values, sustainability and urban agriculture.
The market is a food growing and preparation place that seeks a full integration of the food chain. Everything grown in the aeroponics will be distributed to the people that live in the project, but also a percentage of the food grown can be bought by external people. The same food can be cooked in the communal kitchen and consumed in the dining area, as well as a special area where external farmers can get a space to sell their own products.
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Measure the horizon from where you stand, let us know it’s length and why
In collaboration with Mónica Muñoz, Yael González & Patxi Jauregui Year June 2021 Bee breeders awards Nuclear bomb memorial
In 2017, the United nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The commission of this contest arises in support of this treaty. Located at one of the nuclear testing sites during the 1940s and 1950s, Mururoa atoll in the French Polynesia, this intervention consists of two parts:
a 5 kilometer pier extending from the coast to the inner lagoon of the atoll, and an underwater structure functioning as an artificial coral reef. This dock is our path of remeberance, a slow fade into the silent, imperceptible, ceaseless procession of memory.
The second element of the memorial is a wooden structure that connects the bottom of the lagoon to the surface. We expect this stucture to be preserved as a living and evolving process of memory that is once collective, because it will be appropiated by the marine life, we visualize this to become a coral reef in the future.
We believe the future of memorials will not rely in the imposition of dominant and massive architecture, but in the empathy of a flexible and poetic place, a place with remebrance and silence.
This project is summarized as how human thought must take place, memory and tradition, the human being cannot ignore the loss in order to have a future. This is why our memorial seeks the intimacy of beauty in forms, spaces and experiences to survive in time.
