Dutch design studio Barde vanVoltt has used textured stucco partitions, chrome steel panels and sculptural stone parts to outfit a two-level penthouse in Mexico Metropolis.
Barde vanVoltt collaborated with native architect and contractor José Muniz to finish the 300-square-metre penthouse, which is owned by a inventive couple.
“When clothier Tony and author Rafael met, they envisioned a brutalist sanctuary for themselves and their canine,” mentioned the studio.
“This penthouse grew to become a deeply private challenge formed by their impeccable eye for design and inventive worlds.”
The house is specified by an H form round two mild wells wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glass.
An elevator and staircase are positioned within the central bar, with house on both facet for inside circulation, and an extra single-flight staircase leads as much as the roof.
The decrease flooring is split into the dwelling, eating and kitchen space throughout one wing, and the bed room, toilet and dressing room alongside the opposite.
All through these areas, concrete flooring and textured stucco surfaces create a base onto which stone slabs, walnut millwork and reflective parts are overlaid.
“The house interprets the idea of Heat Brutalism into an introspective, sculptural dwelling atmosphere outlined by materiality, mild, and environment,” mentioned Barde vanVoltt.
Stainless-steel panels wrap the elevator shaft and fundamental stairwell, and kind full-height kitchen cupboard doorways alongside walnut uppers and lowers.
The mattress is housed inside an exaggerated wood body and backed by an enormous wood headboard that swoops up onto the ceiling.
Darkish-tinted glass curves across the toilet, which incorporates a monolithic stone tub, whereas louvred walnut shutters slide throughout the bed room home windows for added privateness.
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“Daring, monolithic architectural strains are softened by rounded corners, textured stucco partitions, heat walnut carpentry, and sculptural stone parts,” Barde vanVoltt mentioned.
“Wood shutters and curved volumes introduce a way of stillness inside the city setting.”
Black-stained wood bar stools and eating furnishings add visible weight to the impartial interiors, as do the stone counter tops and the stable metal-sheet balustrades that flank the roof staircase.
Upstairs, a author’s studio, a health club and a small lounge open to a terrace, the place a grill space, a fireplace pit and a plunge pool create”a spot the place brutalist geometry meets the huge Mexico Metropolis horizon”.
Though based mostly in Amsterdam, the place the studio has accomplished a espresso showroom and a household house in a storage, this isn’t Barde vanVoltt’s first challenge in Mexico Metropolis.
The studio has additionally renovated a home in La Condesa neighbourhood that’s oriented round a mezcal bar.
The pictures is by Alejandro Ramirez Orozco.
