Photographer : Aldo Gracia and Fernanda De la Torre
Casa Ztudio is a personal project where we had the opportunity to create spaces that reflect our lifestyle and personality. This project not only embraces simplicity through its geometry, distribution, and materials but frames our daily life.
The house develops on a single floor plan, where it was important to us that both the common area (living room, kitchen, dining room) and bedroom had natural light and ventilation. For the multipurpose room, we were looking for the opposite, we wanted to create a dark room for meditation.
During the design process, we decided that the studio should be a totally independent space in order to keep work and personal life separate which certainly is difficult to achieve.
As architects, we enjoy seeing the elements that makeup spaces, this is the reason the studio has an industrial look where raw materials such as the beams and steel deck are appreciated.
On the ground floor of the studio, you can find a workspace, a small lounge area, and a bathroom; on the second floor, there is more workspace, a meeting area, and a small terrace. Since the terrace faces the street we placed perforated steel plates to maintain privacy.
Without a doubt, the whole process of designing and building this project was full of emotions, but in the end, we get to enjoy and live in these spaces that tell our story.