José Ignacio Vargas Mier y Terán, who founded this young practice in 2018, brings together experience at Ricardo Legoretta, Tatiana Bilbao, Max von Werz, Carlos Zedillo and FRAMA Copenhagen, as well as studies in Mexico and the UK. The Mexican architect’s approach is multidisciplinary and research-based.
Casa Martha was constructed on the footprint of the damaged house and is designed to accommodate the family who lived there, an elderly couple with mobility problems and their two chilidren. And Vargas was determined that both generations could support each other but also live as independently as possible.
The layout and circulation of the house are clear and unobstructed with the kitchen, dining room, bathroom and two bedrooms all on the ground floor. Sliding doors open much of the space to the outdoors and a large porch. A third bedroom is housed on smaller second level, topped with a barrel-vaulted concrete roof, which has its own entrance via an outside staircase.
Much of the house was built using compacted earth blocks produced on site which were left exposed. And Vargas, who studied in Mexico, Glasgow and London, says Casa Martha’s raw essentialism is at the heart of its appeal; but that it is the result of complex considerations. ‘To design a house requires fully understanding the social, political, economic and physical context in which the house is placed.
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