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Description

Finestre Villas is a multiple beach housing project with 8 units, developed with areas that range from 500 to 1000 square meters of construction. The project uproots a ridge in the Mexican Pacific coast in Guerrero, its volume is based on the topographic setting on the site. As a premise, the development seeks to leverage the existing vegetation and implementing new, creating an architecture based on integrating context and tree structures of the site.

Enveloping spaces in white prisms, the wooden interiors stay sheltered from the exterior, while staying introverted and integrated to the context. Due to the importance of vegetation and visual environment of the area, the interiors blend at all times with the latter elements. Facing the ocean, the spaces are oriented to seek shelter from the sun, in a sober and quiet atmosphere, letting the natural environment surround the site as its main character idea.

Biography

Gabriel Mancera holds a Bachelor in Architecture Graduate at the Universidad Anahuac del Norte (1995 - 1999). He began his career working at the Jose de Yturbe Bernal Studio. In 2002 he founded his practice, CC Arquitectos, where he develops among a team of professionals a variety of scales projects, from residential and commercial spaces, to tourist and transport stations. In 2006 co-founded Urban Design Travel, a company dedicated to the analysis and development of executive projects, such as pedestrian flows, intermodal public transport links and massive retail spaces. His practice also includes co-working with the Consortium of Transport in Madrid, Spain and the ITDP - Institute for Transportation and Development Policy.