To talk about the project Sin Nombre Casa y Galeria, by Associates Architecture, it is necessary first of all to describe the context in which it was conceived. This residential architecture is in fact a direct reaction to its built environment.
The new building is located in San Miguel de Allende, about 270 km north-west of Mexico City, in the Serra Madre mountains. Characterised by pastel-coloured buildings with colonial facades, the historic core of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The city centre, consisting of 64 blocks, is laid out according to a regular grid, which in the suburbs dissolves into a disjointed, sometimes labyrinthine layout. In these neighbourhoods, the houses are informal, anonymous and develop in an introverted manner. And it is here that the residence designed by Associates Architecture is born.
The trapezoidal shape of the plot defines that of the building. The volume is in fact a simple extrusion of the existing layout. The design concept is to work with a monolithic block that houses and conceals a series of domestic microcosms.