Rombo III
Mexico City, Mexico
2024
Rombo III was completed in 2018 and is the main house of the first three Rhomboids in the complex. Formed on the basis of an existing residence, it has living, dining area, and kitchen on the third level. A main staircase links the different parts of the building.
The project engages fully with a tree; it is the building’s central core presence, and it spreads to fill the space as water does. Fountains and mirrors are a constant natural resource, and reflections in them sharpen the surrounding environment, which is almost always green space. As in almost all densely populated cities, here a tree is a precious resource, as are other forms of vegetation, but also water, land, and, ultimately, in these times, intimacy.
Joe Fletcher Photography
Photography tells only a small part of the story of what we discover in architecture. It leaves out the touch and feel of materials, their hardness and softness, heat and cold, the voice of a space that is fed by the passage of the wind through the leaves of a tree, the sound of a fountain, the murmur of silence.
A picture cannot describe the fragrance of a garden or the smell of incense: all these things speak to atmosphere and shelter, aspects I only see in spaces that murmur softly in the light. The most natural shape is nothing but the consequence of a space in search of intimacy and of experiences that we wish to repeat in the form and through the presence of architecture.
Miguel Ángel Aragonés
