‘Jardín 58’ is a residential project located in mexico city’s san angel neighborhood, south west of the city center.This Mexico City residence by DCPP Arquitectos features pivoting doors and sliding glass walls, allowing rooms to open out to the cobbled and herringbone-brickwork courtyards around its perimeter. The shape of the house takes advantage of the plot’s dimensions, maximizing available living space. This is achieved by articulating a series of outdoor areas around a central garden, encouraging external living. The house was design to work in one level, including on the ground floor the main bedroom and services, and leaving on the top floor a guest bedroom.
The two-storey building is approximately T-shaped in plan, dividing the interior into three main wings. With the intention to merge the interior with the exterior, was conceived a volume that splits in two the garden space to give the visual continuity. On the ground floor is the main room and upstairs a terrace was arranged with connection to the upper chamber. To avoid placing central columns in the room, we chose to integrate big steel beams, which together provide a unique twist to the housing, and a variant game of shadows.
