Saint Peter House La Residencia by Angel Valerio and Diego Vilatela is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Plata in Diseño de Arquitectura, Edificación y Estructuras Competition Category.
PlataArquitectura· 2023
Saint Peter House La Residencia
by Angel Valerio and Diego Vilatela
Client: Proyecto Cafeína
A' Design Award de Plata Winner in Arquitectura Category
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The Design
About Saint Peter House La Residencia
Diseñada desde la filosofía del diseño participativo low tech high customization, esta casa está concebida a partir del ladrillo, material muy utilizado en la región de San Pedro Cholula de forma ancestral a partir del conocimiento de la mano de obra local en el sistema constructivo. La piel principal de la casa tiene 3 formatos para alojar los ladrillos; doble muro, celosía y piqueta de donde parte su expresividad, que se distribuyen de manera funcional para cerrar, ganar luz natural o ventilar los espacios interiores con ventanas en vanos y otras veces mediante doble fachada semisólida.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award de Plata
Saint Peter House La Residencia ha ganado el A' Design Award de Plata, un reconocimiento extraordinariamente prestigioso concedido a diseños de gama alta, magníficos e impresionantes. Los ganadores de Plata son obras tremendamente brillantes y sumamente creativas que ilustran la destacada experiencia, el talento y la agudeza de sus diseñadores. Se espera que Saint Peter House La Residencia sea una obra maravillosa y emblemática, notablemente profesional y profundamente innovadora. Este diseño ganador del A' Design Award de Plata es una invención muy notable y admirada que beneficia y hace avanzar las fronteras del arte, la ciencia, el diseño y la tecnología. Saint Peter House La Residencia es una creación enormemente envidiada que evoca deseos, aporta sentimientos positivos y despierta asombro y admiración.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The main skin of the house has 3 formats for accommodating the brikcs; double wall, lattice and spike from where its expressiveness starts, which are distributed in a functional way to close, gain natural light or ventilate the interior spaces with windows in openings and other times through a double semi-solid facade between the brick wall and glass, getting privacy and staying safe.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Built surface 118 m2
The project has the possibility of progression, so that the client himself can build and explore other materials, textures or colors in the composition of the future architecture - Tags
- innovation, sophistication, comfort, proyectocafeina, brick, design, architecture,
- Production Technology
- Hand made bricks, some artifacts are manufactured by means of different materials and local crafts such as sinks, inspired by metate, a pre-Hispanic material of volcanic origin and high resistance made by artisan women. Metal lighting fixtures and switches manufactured by blacksmiths and turners from an exclusive design.
- Design Challenge
- The house is architecturally designed so that it responds adequately without the need for high maintenance over time to the adverse climate of Cholula of more than 2000 meters above sea level, close to the tropic of cancer and at a distance of approximately 50 km from the crater of the active volcano Popocatepetl that in Nahuatl local language means mountain that smokes.
- Research
- It is an example of the creative potential that exists through the relationship between workers, architects and clients in an inclusive, equitable and diverse setting where the parties actively intervene in the architectural process providing autonomy, resilience and well-being
- Inspiration
- Designed from the philosophy of participatory design low tech high customization, this house is conceived from the bricks, a material widely used in San Pedro Cholula region in an ancestral way from the knowledge of the local workforce in the construction system. Through the collaboration between workers, architects and the client, a house of high sophistication is achieved through plasticity.
- Project Duration
- Duration: 12 months
Location: San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, Mexico - Operation Flow
- One of the most relevant architectural design factors arises precisely from the possibility of housing growth in the medium or long term, leaving preparations in structure and facilities to be able to house other spaces as it goes growing the family or its purchasing power.
- Patents
- Proyecto Cafeína
- Team Members
- Project Directors: Angel Valerio, Diego Vilatela
Architecture: Roberto Martinez, Leonardo Neve
Engineering: Sebastian Serrano
Construction: Jennifer Montelongo
Marketing: Ana Montes, Guadalupe Tlatelpa
Photography: Patrick Lopez - Image Credits
- Proyecto Cafeína
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