Oaxaca House and Studio / Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha

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Text description provided by the architects. The Oaxaca House and Studio, built for a plastic artist, is composed of two equal-sized volumes. The client's desire for a terrace for the upper floor studio inspired us to create two staggered volumes, one atop the other, where the roof of the lower volume would become the terrace of the second floor. The interior stair becomes the link and pivot between the two volumes.

Oaxaca House and Studio / Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha - Image 2 of 14
© Jaime Navarro

The house is sited on an irregular lot, placed closest to the shortest-length side on the terrain so as to create an expansive garden and to provide the best orientation for the North-facing studio and West-facing breakfast room. The house itself acts as a curtain protecting the terrace from the fierce late-afternoon sun.

Section

The house was conceived as being contained within the expansive garden that surrounds it. The principal axes of the composition lead the eye to the garden as the interior spaces open in large panoramas to the lush surroundings.

Plan

The color palette of the house plays an important role. Ochres and reds define the exteriors from the clay-tile floor and the Tezontle skin of the house to the red earth of the patio. In counterpoint, the interiors are of warm-toned woods and white surfaces balancing the intensity of the red-toned exterior and finding harmony with the pinks of the Bougainvillea and purples of the Jacarandas.

Oaxaca House and Studio / Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha - Sofa, Table, Chair, Windows, Beam
© Jaime Navarro

The structural system reinforces the concept of the two staggered volumes with roof systems of wood-beam construction where at the points where the first floor supports the second, the beams double their height again emphasizing the conceptual parti of the house.

Oaxaca House and Studio / Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha - Stairs, Brick, Facade, Handrail
© Jaime Navarro

A narrow exterior stair, cantilevered from the cantilevered volume, connects the artist´s studio with the roof terrace. On the roof terrace, the handrails become benches from which the inhabitant can sit, admiring the view of the lush garden and treetops with the city of Oaxaca in the distance.

Oaxaca House and Studio / Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha - Beam
© Jaime Navarro

A central aim was to create a garden with a house as opposed to a house with a garden.

Oaxaca House and Studio / Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha - Beam, Column
© Jaime Navarro

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Cite: "Oaxaca House and Studio / Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha" 01 Aug 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/155168/oaxaca-house-and-studio-taller-de-arquitectura-mauricio-rocha> ISSN 0719-8884

© Jaime Navarro

瓦哈卡住宅和工作室 / Taller de Arquitectura-Mauricio Rocha

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