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Cañadas Residence

Architects: Oscar Barrera & Fernando Maytorena

Honors: Open Room Selection (Best in Class)

Date: November 2012

Tutor: Armando Hernández (Tec de Monterrey)

Location: Guadalajara, JAL, México

Software: AutoCAD, SketchUp & VRay

     Cañadas Residence consists of a six-storey house supported by steel and concrete columns sitting on a mountain's hillside in metropolitan Guadalajara, México. The project's privileged location benefits itself from some magnificent views and its nature-surrounded environment. Due to the main access to the residence from the top of the terrain, the house's distribution works in a particular way. Public and private spaces are split apart by the garage located in the second floor, this way the public spaces such as kitchen, dining and living room are located in the top-most floor. Moving down, the main bedroom and the T.V. room are found on the third floor, a guest room is located on the fourth floor, the fifth floor hosts an versatile entertainment room, and finally the sixth floor harbors a service room. Dute to the nature surrounded environment of the house, exterior areas where prioritized, distributing terraces and balconies along every floor.

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