OSCAR MENA PORTFOLIO
OSCAR MENA PORTFOLIO
OSCAR MENA Curriculum Vitae
April 18, 1989 Monterrey N.L. Mexico
Current Address: Cumbres del Ebro 149 Cumbres Elite, Monterrey, Mexico
MEX +0448.12305172
oscar.mena.arq@gmail.com
Personal Statement
Education
In 2007, I got enrolled at the “Universidad de Monterrey”
2012
(Udem) in Monterrey, Mexico; being creditor of an academic scholarship. In 2009, while I was still a student,
2007
Professional Experience Architecture University of Monterrey (Udem) Monterrey, Mexico
2015 (currently)
Architect Designer Picazo arquitectos Beijing, China
I started working as an architect assistant at “Avit 300”. Then, in 2010, I was invited by the architect David Picazo to work in his office: “Picazo Arquitectos”. In 2012, I got my degree in architecture and joined “Oficina de
2007 2004
Bachelor of System Analysis University of Monterrey (Udem) Monterrey, Mexico
2015 2012
Project Leader ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Monterrey, Mexico
Arquitectura”, where I worked for three years. Finally, in 2015, I moved abroad to Beijing to work at “Picazo Arquitectos China”.
2012 2010
Architect Designer Picazo arquitectos Monterrey, Mexico
I consider myself a very dedicated, motivated and hardworking person. I get involved in everything I do with high enthusiasm and implication. I set ambitious goals in order to give the best of me in every moment.
2010 2009
Architect Assistant AVIT 300 Monterrey, Mexico
Design Skills
Other Skills
Lenguages
AutoCAD Autodesk
Adobe InDesign
Spanish
Revit Autodesk
Microsoft Office
English
3ds Max Autodesk
Grid & Layout
Rhinoceros
Sense of photogaphy
Grasshopper
Image editing
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Ilustrator
Competitions Oct 2014
Sep 2014
Mar 2012
Cistern Masterplan - Special mention ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Monterrey, Mexico
Parametric Pavilion - Special mention ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Monterrey, Mexico
DISA Tower - AccĂŠsit prize Picazo arquitectos Tenerife, Spain
Workshops Feb 2014
Oct 2013
Apr 2012
Hobbies & Interests Parametric Design-Rhino + Grasshopper Complex Geometry Monterrey, Mexico
3D Modeling - 3ds Max + Vray Akcursos - Arkitectonik Monterrey, Mexico
UDESIGN Congress / Workshop University of Monterrey Monterrey, Mexico
SELECTED WOKS 01
PZ HOUSE
Office: Picazo arquitectos Project date: 2010 Building type: Private residential Area: 350m2 Location: San Pedro Garza GarcĂa, Mexico
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CUMBRES MASTERPLAN
Office: Picazo arquitectos Project date: 2011 Building type: Residential development Area: 50,000m2 Location: Monterrey, Mexico
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10
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DISA TOWER
Office: Picazo arquitectos Project date: 2012 Building type: Masterplan Area: 45,000m2 Location: Tenerife, Spain
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PRACTICE TEE
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2012 Building type: Restaurant / Bar Area: 180m2 Location: San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
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PARKING BUILDING
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2013 Building type: Parking structure Area: 6,700m2 Location: San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
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TEC DISTRICT
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2013 Building type: Masterplan Area: 3,000m2 Location: Monterrey, Mexico
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SELECTED WOKS 07
TREE HOUSE
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2014 Building type: Private residential Area: 180m2 Location: Santiago, Mexico
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MOLL DEL VALLE
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2014 Building type: Office building Area: 4,000m2 Location: San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
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PARAMETRIC PAVILION
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2014 Building type: Pavilion Area: 35m2 Location: San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
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CISTERN MASTERPAN
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2014 Building type: Masterplan Area: 11,800m2 Location: Monterrey, Mexico
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DA HOUSE
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2015 Building type: Private residential Area: 430m2 Location: San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
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ZULA 8
Office: ODA (Oficina de Arquitectura) Project date: 2015 Building type: Residential development Area: 6,000m2 Location: San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
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PZ HOUSE
San Pedro Garza GarcĂa, Mexico
The design challenge in this intervention consisted in modifying the existing layout of the house so it would influence a contemporary lifestyle on its owners. The priority was to let the main areas have as much space as possible. The social area should be simple and clean. A rectangular shape is determined by the encased bookcase, the stone wall, and two large windows overlooking the patios. This way, the interior and the exterior spaces merge into one.
Office: Picazo arquitectos
Area: 350m2
Project date: 2010 11
Groud floor plan / Planata baja
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Groud floor plan / Planata baja
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The encased bookcase and the kitchen furniture were designed as a single unit that covers the entire wall. The bathrooms and the private areas are very colorful, while the social area is mostly white so that the wooden and stone textures can stand out with the brightness of the room. The roof of the house is left as a terrace so that its owners can enjoy the view of the surrounding mountains.
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The entrance / Entrada principal
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CUMBRES MASTERPLAN
Monterrey, Mexico
The residential cluster consists of eight blocks with a total of 161 residences. The houses were designed with two or three levels and up to eight different faรงade variations. The architectural and material quality of the houses is contemporary and respond to its context. By setting the project standards, numerous variations were made possible, while keeping an overall balance and consistency in the design; thus enhancing the efficiency in the construction of the houses.
Office: Picazo arquitectos
Area: 50,000m2
Project date: 2011 19
Masterplan / Plan maestro
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Amenity spaces were provided along with a playground to the west. Landscape design helped to create a sense of community and commitment to the complex. In order to avoid repetition on the faรงades, the design of the houses makes it possible to flip their plan.
Groud floor plan / Planta baja
Upper level plan / Planta alta
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DISA TOWER
Tenerife, Spain
The competition consisted in the design of a 21-story high office tower to become the headquarters of the Disa group in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. As part of the competition, it was required to design the master plan with an underground parking area for 520 vehicles, an outdoor plaza to become a main public space for the city. It also required the design of retail and office amenities spread on a three-floor podium, and three different residential blocks to accommodate medium to high end residential accommodation.
Office: Picazo arquitectos
Area: 45,000m2
Project date: 2012 27
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The proposed scheme is a response to the current urban grid, where pedestrians are the priority and the new public spaces become “breathing spaces� for the city. The offices and the retail amenities are distributed along the threefloor podium. Access ramps, bridges and escalators allow visitors to move around the scheme freely. These not only provide access between the different floors and spaces, but also become viewing platforms where visitors can enjoy the views of the city and the newly designed public square. Stores and outdoor terraces are strategically located along the organic master plan, so they bring a sense of life and movement to the whole scheme.
The structure of the tower consists of a reinforced concrete core with circular columns around its perimeter, allowing the arrangement of open-plan offices. There are 9 slab shapes set on different orientations to function as a sustainable strategy to the local climate.
Typical tower plan / Planta tipo - Torre
Typical apartament plan / Planta tipo - Apartamentos
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The overhangs created by the slab shapes shade de level below and give the tower its organic look and striking presence. The balconies created by these overhangs could be used as outdoor meeting spaces, as well as viewing platforms to enjoy a 360 degree view of the city.
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PRACTICE TEE
San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
The Project is located on a mountain inside the “Deportivo Alpino Chipinque” country club. In order to arrive to the site, it is necessary to travel along a half-kilometer trail. It can be traveled by foot or by golf kart. On the way up, one can distinguish a volume that emerges from the site and finally observe the entire building.
Office: ODA 34
Area: 180m2
Project date: 2012
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Level 2 plan / Planta nivel 2
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The restaurant is located besides the practice tee. The purpose of the project is that the clients can enjoy food services while practicing golf, without needing to descend to the other amenities of the club. The main idea of the concept is to enjoy the view of the city while using the amenities. The project consists of three levels connected by an external stone staircase, appearing as if it were emerging from the mountain itself.
Ground floor plan / Planta baja
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The ground floor has a service area where users can rent golf equipment. The entrance to the bar and restaurant is located on the first floor. On the upper level there is a green terrace with a panoramic view. Considering the project’s location, the façades are left open so that the users can enjoy the unobstructed view as well as the fresh air.
Level 1 plan / Planta nivel 1
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South elevation / Elevaci贸n sur
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Detail / Detalle
Detail / Detalle
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PARKING BUILDING
San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
This parking building plays a fundamental role in a master plan for the “Deportivo Alpino Chipinque” country club, since it required the extension of its previous parking capacity. With an area of 6,700 m2 distributed along 10 levels, it can hold up to 168 vehicles, leaving 39 m2 for each one. The Project focuses on minimizing the formal problem that a conventional parking structure would face: The imposition of a big volume with a monotonous façade.
Office: ODA 42
Area: 6,700m2
Project date: 2013
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Sube a Nivel 6
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Sube a Nivel 7
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Site plan / Planta de conjunto
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A transparent membrane was proposed for the northern façade, which is the most related to the access to the facilities. It consisted of a suspended plane composed of steel mesh panels used with a double purpose: The protection of the users, and a support structure to allow the growth of vegetation, creating a green screen. This element creates a visual language that relates to the mountain’s immediate context.
Sube
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The building’s structure appeals to the economy. It uses a foundation system based on concrete slabs that receive the columns and the steel beams, optimizing the spans. This structure supports the prefabricated alveolar section concrete slabs and ramps. The walls on the lower levels were covered with local stones, while the ones in upper levels were left with a cement plaster finish.
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Baja
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Sube a Nivel 6
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Sube
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Sube
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Baja
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Sube a Nivel 3
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Sube a Nivel 7
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Ground floor plan / Planta baja
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Typical plan / Planta tipo
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N9 18 Cajones
N10 15 Cajones
N8 15 Cajones
N7 18 Cajones
N6 15 Cajones
N5 18 Cajones
N4 15 Cajones
N3 18 Cajones
N2 15 Cajones
12.81%
N1 21 Cajones
Acceso N1
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North elevation / Elevaci贸n norte
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Transversal section / Secci贸n transversal
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CALLE
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West elevation / Elevaci贸n oeste
Longitudinal section / Secci贸n longitudinal
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The building’s most notorious element is the external membrane on the southern and western façades. This substructure holds a line of potted plants which have managed to cover it completely in a short time, thus reducing the massive presence of the building.
Section / Sección
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TEC DISTRICT
06 Monterrey, Mexico
The proposal is simple: amplify to its maximum the pedestrian dedicated surface. By doing so, the flow conditions should improve in the busiest pedestrian node of the university. The circular pergola that covers the big vehicular crater, provides shade and protection for the users by separating the vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian lanes. This elements also becomes an urban reference that articulates the visual axis and the different flows, expanding its area of influence to the scale of urban infrastructure.
Office: ODA
Area: 3,000m2
Project date: 2013 53
The site has an undoubtable commercial value due to its location. This intervention pretends to maximize its value by providing spaces that would work as terraces. The presence of publicity isn’t ignored. On the contrary, it is organized and presented as a canopy with more visibility and commercial value. This volume could later host a mixed use building. The orientation of the corridor is favorable according to the sun’s path. Continuous shaded areas are provided by the existing buildings. In order to improve this benefit, their height is proposed to grow by temporarily placing a vertical structure to host publicity on the top of these existing one-level buildings; which in a near future, could grow to tree-level mixed use buildings.
Masterplan / Plan maestro
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The purpose of the project is to recover and occupy pedestrian space. This operation requires wider sidewalks and an esplanade where people can move and rest. The existing inefficient parking space is reconfigured so that there’s a minimal functional parking area away from the pedestrian area.
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A cycling route marks the limits of the esplanade area and connects the entrance of the university, circulating under the pergola. The sidewalk that crosses Garza Sada Avenue is widened and protected from the vehicles by simple surface operations. He pavement marks and identifies the new territory gained on the vehicular infrastructure in favor of pedestrian mobility.
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TREE HOUSE
07 Santiago, Mexico
The “Tree house� is divided into public and private areas based on a single fragmented volume separated into two parts, each one with its own slope. There is a succession of platforms whose character varies both in the material used, as well as in the natural intervention. The house encloses a central patio with a large tree and private terrace.
Office: ODA
Area: 180m2
Project date: 2014 59
It has two levels. The access level is above and it’s divided into a social side, with the living room and the kitchen, and a private side, with a bedroom and a terrace. This exterior of this level is covered with galvanized steel sheets.
The shape of the house is a product of the relationship between the object, the altered plot itself, and the surrounding area.
Brick was used on the lower level as a finish for the walls. On this level , the laundry room and a study are located to one side, while the main bedroom is placed between the central patio and the backyard.
The project’s orientation protects it form solar gain and provides a view of the nearby trees and the surrounding hills. It has an interior-exterior relationship. The form is closed to de outside and open to the inside with large windows that allow natural light to flood the entrance area.
Ground floor plan / Planta baja
Basement plan / Planta sótano
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The geometry derives from the program’s spatial dynamics and the reinterpretation of traditional gable roof constructions. Its shape represents a synthesis of programmatic variations in dialogue with the location´s geographic determinants.
Isometry / Isometría
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Eest elevation / Elevaci贸n este
West elevation / Elevaci贸n oeste
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North elevation / Elevaci贸n norte
South / Elevaci贸n sur
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Isometry / IsometrĂa
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Section / Secci贸n
Section / Secci贸n
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MOLL DEL VALLE
San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
“Moll del Valle” is a building located in one of the city’s most exclusive areas. It is a 13-story tower with offices and businesses. The project consisted in doing a complete redesign of the external facade of the building in order to reduce its thermal gain and give it a contemporary look. The solution was to implement a double crystal panel façade which would work as a solar barrier. It was decided to divide the building’s geometry into two volumes to emphasize its verticality.
Office: ODA 72
Area: 4,000m2
Project date: 2014
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Typical plan / Planta tipo
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North elevation / Elevaci贸n norte
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East elevation / Elevaci贸n este
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Detail / Detalle
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PARAMETRIC PAVILION
San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
Taking into account the limitations and requirements of the project, the design of the “Pabellón los Arquitectos” pavilion parted from a circle and its spatial virtues. The connection between points and lines create surfaces which also generate a space. The main goal was to submerge the users into a rich, varied sensational experience inside and outside the pavilion. This was achieved by a natural walkthrough provided by its spatiality which adapts to its main function by generating exhibition and conference areas. The play of solids and voids on the walls of the pavilions, which also merge with its cover, provide an internal-external relationship by allowing light and wind to go through it.
Office: ODA 80
Area: 35m2
Project date: 2014
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Site plan / Planta de conjunto
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Ground floor plan / Planta baja
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The second goal was to design an adaptable system to be assembled and placed in different places and conditions. The pavilion’s structure works efficiently to support the cover, which is developed through the fragmentation of a surface generating triangular planes which could be made out of recycled canvas or prefabricated panels. The final outcome responds to its function, the efficiency in construction and sustainability; all key concepts in any architectural project.
Elevation / Elevación
Isometry / Isometría
Longitudinal section / Sección longitudinal
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Elevation / Elevación
Detail / Detalle
Cover – It’s intended to use recycled canvas from billboards or prefabricated cement panels to create the cover. The use of these elements could be partial or total.
Elevation / Elevación
Structure – Anchored to the platform, the wooden ribs are the only structural elements for the cover. They are light, detachable and easy to handle. Platform – The platform is divided in medium-density fiberboard panels. Its modulation makes it easy to transport and handle. Platform structure – It consists of metal anchorages that articulate the beams in the base and the columns in the cover. On the inside it has a rubber layer to prevent damage on the surface where the pavilion would be placed.
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Transversal section / Sección transversal
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CISTERN MASTEPLAN
Monterrey, Mexico
The approach for this Project is radical, identifying the opportunity to turn a historic piece of hydraulic infrastructure into an environmental regeneration mechanism with metropolitan impact. The strategy of turning the tank’s cover into a great garden – prepared for growing different plants, even vegetables – symbolizes the possibility of positioning the institution at the forefront regarding the conservation of water and energy.
Office: ODA 90
Area: 11,800m2
Project date: 2014
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Program diagram / Diagrma de programa
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Groud floor plan / Planta baja
A combination of individual and collaborative work areas are provided. These ares, arranged as an office landscape or “bürolandschaft”, complement the landscape on the roof. The spaces below this green cover are organized around a grid of patios, which provide natural light to every corner of the offices. There is no more than 5 meters between each work area and a window. The masterplan organizes and gives hierarchy to the value of open space and its importance as an ecosystem. It’s offered as a project deeply committed with the possibilities of environmental regeneration.
Upper level plan / Planta alta
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The intervention capitalizes the existing facilities as a strategic location and as a green lung, being the only significant green area on the west of downtown Monterrey. The garden as a water collector/filter is a whole declaration of what “Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey� communicates regarding rain water preservation and recycle. This didactic vocation, complemented with the symbolism of the water pavilion, concurs with the sustainable philosophy of the dependence, and therefore is expressed in all the elements of the construction.
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Secci贸n / Section
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DA HOUSE
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San Pedro Garza GarcĂa, Mexico
The goal was to design a flexible space where the client’s family could relax, have fun and spend time with family and friends. A wooden hall goes through the froject from the main entrance up to the garden, through the pool and the social area. There is an emphasis in the transparency and the interior-exterior relationship of the project thanks to the use of glazed curtain walls and the extended roof.
Office: ODA
Area: 430m2
Project date: 2015 99
Groud floor plan / Planta baja
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ZULA 8
San Pedro Garza García, Mexico
“Zula 8” is a private residential complex located in one of the most exclusive areas of the city. It consists of 9 houses in a 6,000 m2 site. Each lot has 500 m2 approximately. Similar house designs were made for the 5 regular lots, and 4 special designs for the corner lots. Exposed aggregate concrete, wood and stone were used on the façades of all 9 designs. All houses have 4 levels. On the basement the service areas are located and on the fourth level there’s a terrace with amenities and a privileged view of the mountains.
Office: ODA 102
Area: 6,000m2
Project date: 2015
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Basement plan / Planta s贸tano
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Groud floor plan / Planta baja
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Level 1 plan / Planta nivel 1
Level 2 plan / Planta nivel 2
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THANK YOU oscar.mena.arq@gmail.com