ars ATELIER DE ARQUITECTURAS
ARS is the professional studio of architect Alejandro Guerrero in Guadalajara México. These are the most important moments until now:
[1977] Alejandro Guerrero is born in Guadalajara, México. [2000] Architect degree by ITESO University. Begins professional practice developing several projects in Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta México. [2005] Master Degree studies in Barcelona, Spain. [ETSAB /UPC Master Architecture Critic and Project] 3 projects published in PISO 08 Magazine of Architecture. [2006] Essay published in PISO 10 magazine about Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s work . Honorable mention in ARPAFIL 2006 contest of young architects. SECUENCIAS Exhibition. Hospicio Cabañas Museum, Guadalajara México. SMO House published in SECUENCIAS Exhibition Catalogue. [PISO magazine special issue] Professor at ITESO University Invited professor for ARPAFIL´s Erick Coufal Workshop [2007] SMO House wins gold medal at Jalisco’s Architecture Biennial. SMO House published in ENTREMUROS [MURAL newspaper] Lecture at UTEG University about SMO House Invited professor for ARPAFIL´s Erick Coufal Workshop [2008] Pan-American Village Architectural Contest. Participant ITESO Fifty years commemorative square contest. Participant 2 projects published in “1000 x Architecture of the Americas”. Ediitorial BRAUN Berlin. Lecture at ITESO University Invited professor for ARPAFIL´s Erick Coufal Workshop 2 Essays published in ENTREPISO and PISO 14 magazine about Giorgio Grassi
Our approach to architecture comes from the mixture of the following two perspectives blended in different doses: 1.- The recognition of an amplified and unfolded place of intervention, with the purpose of obtaining an extensive vision that allows us to understand its complexity and to propose suitable solutions. 2.- The transformation of ideas, concepts, architectures, in recognition of the necessity of a real, renewed and deeper tradition.
We are now developing several residential and commercial projects where our most profound desire is to provide complete satisfaction to our clients by designing and building spaces that evoke the beauty of life.
work
snack caracol Puerto Vallarta Jalisco MĂŠxico 2002 Publications PISO 8 magazine
club albatros Puerto Vallarta Jalisco MĂŠxico 2003 Publications PISO 8 magazine
2 houses for watching the rainfall Zapopan Jalisco MĂŠxico 2004 Publications PISO 8 Magazine
smo house Santa María del Oro Nayarít México 2004-2005 Gold medal at Jalisco’s Architecture Biennial. Publications: SECUENCIAS exhibition catalogue [PISO magazine special issue] Entremuros Magazine 1000x Architecture of the Americas Editorial BRAUN Berlin Local Newspapers
smo house
Santa María del Oro Nayarít México 2004-2005 Architecture can be built in space and time. In order to build in space architecture draws limits recognizing the territory. For building in time architecture must recognize a tradition of forms. The project was an opportunity to declare intentions about how architecture is built. Santa Maria del Oro Lake is a landscape built filling a volcano with water. The result is a topographical concavity, a circular shaped slope that ends down in the water. Our lot is located at the water’s edge in a little bay [second concavity]. The client used to camp in this terrain for years and we were asked to build a house with deep relationships with the lake, the weather and the views in order for the inhabitants to feel as though they were camping. The house is made by three pieces: a long pavilion on pilots, transparent and facing the lake south east; a smaller pavilion behind with bedrooms for the kids and an open platform. There is a difference in the length of these two pavilions so we built a patio for entry in the north part of the terrain [third concavity]. This patio is a fundamental piece because it allows the main pavilion to admire two adjacent open spaces: the slope and the lake. The mountain comes down underneath and behind the house and when it gets into the water it closes the house’s views. We affirm then that the house ends in the limit made by the second concavity – the bay -. The entire house has been elevated from the ground in order to allow the water to pass underneath it, recovering the palafitic structure as a type of building and remembering that architecture can evoke other architectures by using timeless forms.
pavilion + 2 patios house Zapopan Jalisco MĂŠxico 2006-2008 Publications 1000 x Architecture of the Americas Editorial BRAUN Berlin
projects
study house in mar chapálico Ajijic Jalisco México 2007-2009
plastic surgeon clinic Guadalajara Jalisco MĂŠxico 2007-2009
urology clinic Guadalajara JaliscoMĂŠxico 2008-
madroño house Zapopan Jalisco México 2008-
50 years iteso square competition Guadalajara Jalisco MĂŠxico 2008 Unbuilt
ars ATELIER DE ARQUITECTURAS
Marsella 130-1 Colonia Lafayette Guadalajara Jalisco MĂŠxico CP.44140 Phone. +52 (33) 33343532 www.atelierars.com contact@atelierars.com