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 Silva Text

Ricardo Pérez-Saravia Photography

Edificio moderno con una gran estructura negra en la parte superior, rodeado de árboles y con un cielo nublado al fondo.
Un árbol con ramas delgadas y hojas pequeñas en una galería con paredes blancas y escaleras, y varias figuras negras en las bases.

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.

Sala de estar con sillones, mesas de madera, una chimenea, jarrones grandes y una vista de un atardecer con árboles y cielo nublado.
Sala de comedor con mesa de madera y sillas, decorada con jarrones con motivos en ambos lados y un cuadro con árbol en el fondo.
Comedor con mesa de madera y sillas, decoración con un florero y un cuadro en la pared.
Sala de estar con sillones de cojines a rayas y mesa de centro de madera, cuadro en la pared, paredes blancas y techo con vigas de madera.

PRoject DEtails

  • Miguel Angel Aragonés

  • Mauricio Rivera

  • Ricardo Pérez-Saravia, Fabio Foresti

  • Mexico city, Mexico