Casa Thiago 82

The Barrio de Santiago, being a reference in Merida, Mexico. Located in the historic center, and composed of the oldest churches in Yucatan, it has suffered a period of neglect in which the new generations were losing their roots in the center of the city. For this reason, the project is being developed on an abandoned property, approximately 120 years old.
It is a 157.23m2 lot, having 5.60m in the front and 24.88m in the back, with a house in three bays of 61.28m2 of area. Being a house of the mentioned period, it is built with stone masonry walls of 50cm, reinforced slabs, pasta floors, forged ironwork and carpentry made by hand.
The only purpose of the intervention to be carried out is to convert the abandoned property into a habitable space; it is a house for an elderly person. Therefore it is vital to facilitate access on a single level to all areas of the house and the basic needs of a comfortable and serene home. To this end, the house was conceptualized between two gardens.
The materiality of the house is based on demonstrating the vestiges and witnesses of the original house. The original stone of the house was discovered in the walls, thus forming a 60cm base in the interiors, following this criterion; the walls were roughed until the original paint was found and the passage of time was made apparent. The pasta floors were preserved in their entirety, having different patterns in each room as was typical in these dwellings.
Reflecting in the house the contrast of the passage of time, bringing it to the contemporaneity of the furniture and finishes proposed for the intervened areas and current human needs.