Antonio Maceo 8 Apartment Building - Taller Héctor Barroso

Antonio Maceo 8 Apartment Building

Mexico City is continually growing, and the popular neighborhoods are gradually being redensified to house more inhabitants. The AM8 residential building is part of this process&mdash a response to the growth of the Escandón neighborhood. Four concrete volumes stand behind a heritage-listed facade, containing 13 apartments on five levels to make the most of the site conditions. This architecture seeks to humanize the compositional pattern, centralizing the services to generate an open plan layout adaptable to users’ needs. The serene spaces created in this way respond to their orientation and provide cross-lighting and ventilation via balconies and intermediate levels, which are also useful for extending the boundaries of the interior.