House designed for a family of five people in a vineyard in San Miguel de Allende. In progress
House designed in a vineyard in San Miguel de Allende, finished in carved stone and beams. The roof of the house is made of staves. This house has been designed to live the vineyard continuously, observing the changes of light in the nature that surrounds it.
House for a family of four in a vineyard in San Miguel de Allende
House designed for a family of four people, finished in carved stone and wood. 2023 / Design and construction
Exterior of the Allende Architecture Workshop
Casa BV is imagined as an interior patio with a wall that captures the sunlight, allowing an open but protected life in the middle of the semi-arid territory of San Miguel de Allende. Direct sunlight from the Bajío adjusts to the walls, cool in summer and warm in winter.
The construction consists of two levels: the public space - a Yoga studio - sinks below the ground, in an intimate space, ending in a shaded patio. The patio opens, protected by the stone wall that connects with the outside.
The private space, built on the second level, is articulated around a central patio, connecting spaces in the house. A staircase goes up to the terrace that overlooks the Presa Allende and the Picachos de San Miguel.
Casa BV is imagined as an interior patio with a wall that captures the sunlight, allowing an open but protected life in the middle of the semi-arid territory of San Miguel de Allende. Direct sunlight from the Bajío adjusts to the walls, cool in summer and warm in winter.
Casa BV / Acceso Yoga
Stairs Detail
Casa Nómada. Located on the Bajío plateau, between Atotonilco and San Miguel de Allende, between mesquites and huizaches, nopaleras and magueyes, there is a place that goes alongside the old Camino de Tierra Adentro.
Design: Mario López architecture / @TallerAllende
Interior designer: Gabriela Peña Garavito
Project Manager: Arch. Juan Manuel Morales
Construction: Simpleco SA de CV
Engineering: Basort SA de CV
Landscape: Louis Franke
collaboration Eduardo Rincon Gallardo
Date: 2021
Video: Omar Monroy / @omar.monroy
Casa Nómada. Located on the Bajío plateau, between Atotonilco and San Miguel de Allende, between mesquites and huizaches, nopaleras and magueyes, there is a place that goes alongside the old Camino de Tierra Adentro.
Casa Nómada is a space within the Candelaria reserve where the semi-desert climate of the highlands is combined with views of the Sierra de Guanajuato. / In construction
Design:
Mario López architecture / @TallerAllende
Date: 2020
Website: http://www.mariolopez-arquitectura.com
Video:
Omar Monroy / @omar.monroy
Remodeling and Construction 2020
Collaborators:
Arch Antonio Perez
Arch Paola Cruz
Located in Ejido Menchaca, Querétaro, the Commercial Plaza accounts for its industrial environment. With commercial premises on the ground floor and a large open-plan space on the first level, the Plaza becomes the center of activities in the neighborhood.
House for 4 people, in the surroundings of Querétaro, Mexico.
Open to the horizon of the Valle del Marqués, Casa SAN is a reflection of the transparency of the Chichimequillas sky and the stone quarry of the Cerro del Conejo reserve.
Its nature is twofold. Deprive the sun, taking care of the temperature of the house but integrating the landscape through the transparency of its windows.
Design: Arch. Mario López
Team: Arch. Andrea Martínez / Arch. Roberto Jasso
Residencial Cereus is a project that cares for the environment. Located in the Zibatá complex in Querétaro, the semi-arid space that surrounds it is part of the concept. The compressed earth structure is combined with apparent concrete columns giving a sense of stability to the house.
Design : Arch. Mario López
Team: Arch. Gerardo Aguilar
The earthen structure helps keep the house cool in the hottest times of the year and warm in the winter. Thus, the set is honest from its environmental design, integrating the structure as a lattice, keeping each window between earthen columns. The texture of the set is assembled to the environment.
Each house has the possibility of growing on its terrace. Growth can take place on the ground floor of the house or on its first level. Both options give rise to a larger space for families of four or five people. The ground floor room is conditioned to easily receive elderly people, giving the opportunity to rent the upper floor later, making their access independent.
The main access to residential Cereus is a thin sheet of concrete, inclined to force the passage of the wind through the access. People keep to the shadows.
Main access
Building of 32 apartments in front of the golf course.
Design: Arch. Mario López
Team: Arch. Andrea Alberu, Arch. José Sotelo, Arch. Roberto Jasso
The apartments have double height.
Building of 32 apartments in front of the golf course / Corte
Social area, event room
The WWF Mexico office is located in Colonia Condesa. As a company committed to the environment, we look for the most sensitive materials, reusing construction material for furniture.
Pool and Jacuzzi facing the green.
Actual state
White on the walls and ceiling helps increase sunlight in tight spaces and gives this early 1960s home an airy feel.
Forming wood and pieces such as purlins and planks were used to make doors and frames. Heavy-duty marine box flooring helps maintain room temperature and prevent echoes from entering the home.
Apartment in Polanco located one level below ground.
The challenge, to maintain natural light throughout the loft.
Design : Arch. Mario López
Team: Arch. Arturo Chavez, Arch. Ana Laura Martínez, Arch. Miguel Aquillón
Apartment in Polanco / Kitchen
Department in Polanco / Maple wood for walls and floor in white tone.
Bathroom detail
Bathroom detail
Main Facade / Chimalistac, Farallón del Convento del Carmen, between Coyoacán and San Angel. Mexico City.
Design: Arch. Mario López
Team: Arch. Ana Laura Martínez
Casa Punta Farallón / Herrerías was designed with a central stone patio.
All spaces converge to the central courtyard, integrating into one. The privileged view of the lava wall of Chimalistac, fortress of the Carmelite convent of San Angel, is taken advantage of by the stairs that are the link between the patio and the private spaces.
The sun is generous in the house during the winter but it is saved during the summer, sheltered by the Farallón.
Stone floors, the tectonics of the house resembles the porosity of the lava that protects it. Chimalistac and Coyoacan are distinguished on its façade.
The Patio as the center of life in the house.
In a gated community in Mexico City, is the Lap house.
Light is decisive in the house. It falls from the brick walls and separates the volumes of the inner house.
Betlemitas Church / Historic Center, Mexico City
The proposal of the museum is within the framework of the 100th Anniversary of the Mexican Armed Forces.
Inside the Chapel, the structure floats in the nave, touching the floor at 3 points to support the interior ramp, thus avoiding the intervention of the exterior structure of the Temple.
Design: Arch. Mario López
Team: Arch. Miguel Aguillón
Betlemitas Church / Historic Center, Mexico City
Betlemitas Church / Historic Center, Mexico City
Betlemitas Church / Historic Center, Mexico City
digital sketch
The facade communicates the numerology of Kabbalah and works as a lattice so that light fills the three levels of the building.
Design: Arch. Mario López
Team: Arch. Miguel Aguillón
Mikve
Conference center
The strategy of the stand is to contemplate the history of the company in a loop that ends with a visit to the cafeteria on the first level.
Design: Arch. Mario López
Team: Arch. Miguel Aguillón
The center of the stand is a multi-purpose space framed by interactive screens.
Cafeteria
Project for the Japanese restaurant Torobi by Chef Kazu Kumoto.
Restaurant terrace
Guadalajara Auto Show. / rendering
The Nissan pavilion was listed as the best in the exhibition.
Design: Arch. Mario López and Arch. Pedro Bodegas
Guadalajara Auto Show. / rendering
Guadalajara Auto Show. / ExpoGuadalajara
Guadalajara Auto Show. / rendering
Center stage
Guadalajara Auto Show. / rendering
Center stage
Guadalajara Auto Show. / rendering
Guadalajara Auto Show. / Expo Guadalajara
Nissan showed the Auto LEAF for the first time in Mexico. The tension structure was the perfect setting to display the new lighting saving technology.
Guadalajara Auto Show. / ExpoGuadalajara
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