EP 847 | RAUL PEÑA

EP 847

EP 847

ATRÁS ARRIBA

 ● Mexico City, Mexico.  2019-2020

A utility room and an adjoining wall, for an intervention on a house we designed 7 years before . We start by making the house self-sufficient into electrical energy installing rooftop photovoltaic cell panels .

The next step on that same rooftop, was to expand the water reserve to 150%, placing 2 tanks of 2500 liters each on top of a new room we built with a light structure made of steel angles as columns and I steel beams as girders painted in white . This structure was covered with apparent compressed cement panels bolted to a galvanized gutter frame . A short and narrow steel bridge connects the upper contained open courtyard with the original water deposits and to a marine ladder attached to a wall . All this establishes a balance on a composition of different materials and shades .

Finally an existing metal structure of I beams and stainless angles was reinforced by stiffening it with diagonals of smooth round stainless steel rods; additionally a steel square tubular profile vertical rack painted in black was fixed to support 198 pieces of laminated black slate stone glued with black polyurethane and epoxy adhesive; thus achieving a wall of more than 10 meters high x 6 meters wide, a water spillway was placed at top and behind of this plane, in order of turning it in a slim vertical font and final physical limit of the house . 

CREDITS

Architecture Design:  Raul Peña Architects

Construction Management: Raul Peña Arias

 Self Sufficient Photovoltaic Project: Eugenio Occelli

Structural and Engineering Project: Carlos Robles, Diego Iñigo Cejudo

PHOTOS

Architecture Photos: Alberto Moreno Guzmán

 Structure and Construction Photos: Raul Peña Arias

LINK  http://www.raulpena-architects.com/

 ● Mexico City, Mexico.  2019-2020

A utility room and an adjoining wall, for an intervention on a house we designed 7 years before . We start by making the house self-sufficient into electrical energy installing rooftop photovoltaic cell panels .

The next step on that same rooftop, was to expand the water reserve to 150%, placing 2 tanks of 2500 liters each on top of a new room we built with a light structure made of steel angles as columns and I steel beams as girders painted in white . This structure was covered with apparent compressed cement panels bolted to a galvanized gutter frame . A short and narrow steel bridge connects the upper contained open courtyard with the original water deposits and to a marine ladder attached to a wall . All this establishes a balance on a composition of different materials and shades .

Finally an existing metal structure of I beams and stainless angles was reinforced by stiffening it with diagonals of smooth round stainless steel rods; additionally a steel square tubular profile vertical rack painted in black was fixed to support 198 pieces of laminated black slate stone glued with black polyurethane and epoxy adhesive; thus achieving a wall of more than 10 meters high x 6 meters wide, a water spillway was placed at top and behind of this plane, in order of turning it in a slim vertical font and final physical limit of the house . 

CREDITS

Architecture Design:  Raul Peña Architects

Construction Management: Raul Peña Arias

 Self Sufficient Photovoltaic Project: Eugenio Occelli

Structural and Engineering Project: Carlos Robles, Diego Iñigo Cejudo

PHOTOS

Architecture Photos: Alberto Moreno Guzmán

 Structure and Construction Photos: Raul Peña Arias

LINK  http://www.raulpena-architects.com/