México | BC House | GLR Arquitectos

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BC House, Monterrey, México by GLR Arquitectos



Recently completed by Gilberto L. Rodríguez of GLR arquitectos, this project enjoys excellent vistas towards the National Park of Chipinque in the south, as well as towards the ‘Cerro de la Silla’, an emblematic hill on the edge of the city of Monterrey.




With simple, pure geometric volumes, but rather challenging structural solutions, the intention of the project is to evoke an image of lightness within a language of heavy and massive volumes.




The house was conceived as a ‘Sustainable House’, and has diverse systems of isolation. These include double walls with polyisocianurate, an ecological insulator; double windows with low emissivity glass; pluvial water harvesting and gray water treatment for irrigation, solar paddles for pool heating and garden illumination, solar water heaters and hydronic heating systems to reduce the power consumption.





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Project Details

Architects: GLR arquitectos
Location: Monterrey, Mexico
Type of Project: Residential – Single Family House
Structural Engineers: Colinas y De Buen
Project Architect: Gilberto L. Rodriguez
Design Team: Tomas Guereña, Enrique Salas, Felipe Dorado, Oscar O’Farrill, Lorena Sampedro
Client: Confidential
Funding: Confidential
Tender date: February 2010
Start on site date: January 2007
Construction duration: 3 years
Gross internal floor area: 13 450 sq ft (1 250 m2)
Total cost: Confidential
M&E consultant: Ingenieria Corporativa y Proyectos S.C.
Quantity surveyor: GCA Grupo en Construccion y Acabados
Planning supervisor: Diana Paulina Guerra
Lighting consultant: TROLL
Main contractor: GLR arquitectos
Selected subcontractors: GCA, Wired House, Talleres LEE, Mesa Design Group, Abinco, ALCE, Kreacero

Fonte: Arplus