Text description provided by the architects. A housing expansion prototype that aims to add a 16 sqm room, on the roof of social houses that currently have problems of overcrowding, as they originally have only one bedroom.

Assembly and Installation of Prefabricated Walls

Floor Plan

Assembly and Installation of Covering

As this is a construction proposed in wood, it seeks to explore this material from its structural aspect, insulation, light, and a logical building system. In addition to it, this prototype opens a research around the potential of this resource to activate a sustainable economy in the country, which with the correct use of its forests and jungles, new local economies can be detonated, as well as schemes that can focus on the housing crisis, unemployment, and social marginalization.

Section

The wooden structure is designed by a system of structural frames that join with an assembled grid of beams that support the roof. An arrangement of sliding doors in the lateral facade gives a natural crossed ventilation, that apart from lowering the interior temperature, it promotes an opening of the interior to the urban setting.

© Jaime Navarro

• Architects

  ANTNA

• Location

  Temixco, Morelos, Mexico

• Category

  Extension

• Lead Architects

  Diego Rivero Borrell, Santiago Arroyo

• Area

  16.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Jaime Navarro