House Between 2 Roofs

Casa Entre 2 Techos

Modernity, apparent materiality, regional perspective and an impetus for tranquility

Project: Arch. Esteban Bojorquez
Arch. Servando Bojorquez
Structural engineering: Engineer Francisco Robles
Construction: Bojórquez Arquitectos
Photography: Gonzalo Bojórquez (attached)

This house is located in the outskirts of the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, in a private neighborhood very typical of our times. Designed and built by Esteban Bojórquez for Bojórquez Arquitectos, this residence was designed for an academic from the University of Guadalajara who wanted a modern, simple and elegant space that would give her that regional feeling of tranquility.

The house, built with the classic techniques of the region, from its masonry foundations to the erection and placement of the brick wall and the vaults, also with brick, was thought from the beginning with materials from the area due to the request of the owner, all achieved in Tlajomulco, a classic Jalisco municipality for the artisan manufacturing of its bricks, traditionally making them the best in the region.

Due to the client's need for modernity, it was decided to create a façade that will express the juxtaposition of geometric elements and whose materials in themselves serve as a chromatic contrast. Thus, a cube frames the main entrance of the house whose wood is confronted with the main element, the apparent brick, and which results in a framed visual confrontation.

The interior is intended to denote this type of visual semblances so that upon entering the user encounters a double height cut by an apparent girder bridge, it is precisely in that double height where the contrast is attempted to be reproduced. A vault with fine white cladding, a skylight that illuminates the area of the bridge and an apparent brick vault that crowns the entire space, it is this vault that is marked by the straight lines of the skylight, it should be noted that for this type of vaults it was brought to a specialist from the Lagos area, in the state of Jalisco, because in that region it is one of the usual practices in its regional architecture, but with time and modernity it has been lost.

Both interiors and exteriors are intended to express simplicity, avoiding elements that visually clash with the aesthetics of the residence, as the space itself had to be welcoming to the client thinking about her future retirement