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Rombo I
Mexico City, Mexico
2024
Rhomboids are parallelograms with non-right angles and adjacent sides of unequal length. This geometric configuration applies to the plans of these four houses designed and built in Mexico City by Miguel Ángel Aragonés. Located in the center of the Mexican capital in a wooded area called Bosques de las Lomas, this group of buildings is constituted by three houses and a studio. One of the objectives of the designs was to the privacy of the residents. The architect says, "I wanted to have an exterior that would protect privacy, [so that residents would] be seen only by the sky, the air, or the sun and could live in the house in solitude amid the bustle of the city."
The Studio (called Rombo I) was imagined in 2008 but built and finished in 2016.
The 5,930-square-foot (552-square-meter) structure serves as the studio of Aragonés. It is a three-level building with two small studios and a reception space on the ground floor and the main workspace on the second floor.
Philip Jodidio Text
Joe Fletcher Photography
Our studio coordinated all aspects of this project — engineering, electronics, lighting design, furniture, and every detail of the process. We have a very reduced group here at the studio and each person has total responsibility for the project like a coordinator and at the same time I am personally involved in each process, every sketch, every step of the way. In the case of the lighting design for example, we generated the idea and the general project. Then we involved the company or studio who had the task of technically resolving and building the system. Personally I don't have the capacity to coexist with more people on a daily basis.
Miguel Ángel Aragonés
PRoject DEtails
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Miguel Angel Aragonés
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Juan Carlos Vidaña, Jose Torres, Roberto Gutierrez
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Joe Fletcher
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Mexico city, Mexico
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600 M2