{"id":174554,"date":"2025-08-25T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174554\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:40:21","slug":"trees-and-patios-shape-mexican-house-by-estudio-villagalvez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/174554\/","title":{"rendered":"trees and patios shape mexican house by estudio villag\u00e1lvez"},"content":{"rendered":"

estudio villag\u00e1lvez builds casa g\u00e1lvez around existing trees<\/p>\n

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Casa G\u00e1lvez by Estudio Villag\u00e1lvez stands at the edge of a dense residential and industrial neighborhood in Le\u00f3n, Mexico<\/strong><\/a>, where the city unexpectedly meets a strip of greenery. This adjacency defines the identity of the residence<\/strong><\/a> that opens toward a communal landscape of mature trees, including a flamboyant (Delonix regia) and a eucalyptus, integrating them into its composition and framing them as thresholds, companions, and internal landscapes.<\/p>\n

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At the entrance, the flamboyant tree establishes scale and orientation before one even encounters the building. A covered zagu\u00e1n, a traditional entrance passage in Spanish and Latin American architecture, mediates the passage inside, a vertical, concrete-framed<\/strong><\/a> space punctured by a circular oculus. This intermediary zone draws the eye upwards to the canopy and sets the tone for an experience structured around light, shadow, and the trees themselves.<\/p>\n

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all images by Jorge Succar<\/a><\/p>\n

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suspended wooden core reinterprets reinterprets mexican troje<\/p>\n

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Once inside Casa G\u00e1lvez, the space opens abruptly into a double-height volume that recalls, in contemporary form, the troje, a traditional Mexican barn used for shelter and storage. Here, however, the typology is reimagined as a suspended wooden structure that becomes the heart of the home. On the ground floor, it accommodates the kitchen and dining room, while above, it extends into a TV room and study. Floating within the central void, this suspended troje organizes collective life, maintaining visual and spatial continuity across levels.<\/p>\n

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Architecture practice<\/strong><\/a> Estudio Villag\u00e1lvez concentrates bedrooms and service areas into a vertical volume arranged like a small tower. Patios are interspersed to extend the interiors outward, regulating air and light, and ensuring each space retains a visual link to vegetation. The central patio in particular functions as a bioclimatic device that allows natural airflow and solar control and as a contemplative void enclosing a protected space, while tree crowns dominate the view.<\/p>\n

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The volumetric composition of Casa G\u00e1lvez emerges from the interplay of the entrance volume aligned with the flamboyant tree, the soaring social core, and the compact private tower. Curved lines and earthy-textured bases mediate their connections, softening the geometry. Through this layered sequence that thresholds, double heights, patios, and shadows compose, the house is revealed gradually.<\/p>\n

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Casa G\u00e1lvez stands at the edge of a dense residential and industrial neighborhood in Le\u00f3n, Mexico<\/p>\n

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the residence opens toward a communal landscape of mature trees<\/p>\n

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framing the trees as thresholds, companions, and internal landscapes<\/p>\n

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a covered zagu\u00e1n mediates the passage inside<\/p>\n

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the flamboyant tree establishes scale and orientation before one even encounters the building<\/p>\n

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an experience structured around light, shadow, and the trees themselves<\/p>\n

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the wooden ceiling is a new version of the traditional granary homes<\/p>\n

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the suspended wooden structure becomes the heart of the home<\/p>\n

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after the cozy intimacy of the zagu\u00e1n, visitors emerge into a surprising openness<\/p>\n

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curved lines and earthy-textured bases mediate connections between the volumes<\/p>\n

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a layered sequence that thresholds, double heights, patios, and shadows compose<\/p>\n

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project info:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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name:<\/strong>\u00a0Casa G\u00e1lvez
architect:<\/strong> Estudio Villag\u00e1lvez | @estudiovillagalvez<\/a><\/p>\n

location: <\/strong>Le\u00f3n, Mexico<\/p>\n

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construction: <\/strong>Cubo Rojo\u00a0| @el_cubo_rojo<\/a>
landscaping: <\/strong>LATIKA | @latika.paisajismo<\/a><\/p>\n

photographer:<\/strong> Jorge Succar<\/a> | @jsuccar<\/a><\/p>\n

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