Casa

Arroyo

MExico City, Mexico

1986

The Arroyo House, located in a private residential development in Mexico City, was one of the first single-family homes that architect Miguel Ángel Aragonés projected. Discreet, sober and simple, it deals with a house where the surroundings are those of a neighborhood where he begins to make incursions into his concepts. Corridors that confine and then release the soul in a broader place, windows that act as an axis, the staircase that rises as a central pivot, and the terraces that endow each recessed open space with character — these are some of the traits characteristic of Miguel Ángel Aragonés, which already appear in the Arroyo house.

Matiana Gonzales SilvaText

Fabio Foresti Photography

Chromatic geometry and bold abstraction at Casa Arroyo. A foundational project by Miguel Angel Aragonés exploring the interplay between primary colors, white volumes, and the natural environment.

Interior spatial continuity and functional order at Casa Arroyo. A project by Miguel Angel Aragonés where geometric precision meets the organic presence of nature and light.

At the center, what serves as an axis in the distribution and the importance that the architect gives to it in the creation of a more serene space — if well received — is the desire to create a house where the environment is indeed well received. The architecture follows the precepts of a house that emphasizes volumes, one of which is painted a beautiful contrasting blue against the purity of the white walls. But within the idea of a space that unfolds in height and always refers back to the idea of solid unity, it appears already with an intense originality. It is, in truth, a rather modest house.