Pi Home
Mexico City
2019-Present
On a plot of land in Las Lomas neighborhood in Mexico City, a proposal was made for a residential house divided into two stages. Both stages utilize the same aluminum prefabrication process—a system that Taller Aragonés recently patented in Switzerland.
The first stage includes a 178-square-meter suite that will form part of the main residence. Based on a previously used prefabricated module, this structure was adapted to serve as the master suite for the entire project. It will be integrated into the rest of the building via glass and aluminum nodes that will unify the total structure.
This first part is a residential house with a layout that covers the needs of a couple and is divided into two floors: the ground floor features a living room, dining room, kitchen, guest bathroom, and laundry room.
The second floor contains two bathrooms and two dressing rooms, as well as the bedroom and lounge area, which connects to the rest of the house via the living room’s double-height ceiling. It is a very simple program within a plot of land that integrates into the rear ravine. Designed as an enormous 'green box' made of bamboo and fern walls, it blends with a series of native oak trees that were part of the original ravine.
Our intention was for you to enter through a small, welcoming 'black box' and immediately transition into this vast 'green box' that is the land itself—encouraging you to forget the surrounding urban environment so that, once inside, you see only this solid black cube.
The idea was to couple this initial module with the rest of the program—a non-modular, much more open structure, yet built using the same construction method based on the structural aluminum assemblies of our PI System. This system allows for spans of over ten meters by assembling a universal profile that couples with another using a double-trapezoid joint. This progressively strengthens the beam's depth to the necessary structural level; similarly, it functions as a column that can scale as high as required.
Pi Aluminum System allows the house to expand as extensively as the program demands; the structures integrate seamlessly, whether within a new architectural project or as a pre-established module that complements the complexity or simplicity of the requirements.
The materials used include aluminum throughout the entire structure and the exterior skin of the main building, MDF overlay panels with Alpi wood veneer, Krion bathrooms and sinks, and Salice hardware.
