Tiburón House
Tiburón House is located on the outskirts of Mexico City, within a neighborhood shaped by self-construction, exposed concrete block, and gradual, incremental growth. This condition has produced a landscape of irregular and constantly evolving volumes. Rather than opposing this context, the project embraces it as a point of departure, reinterpreting irregularity through a volumetric composition that suggests a series of masses built over time, as if developed in different stages.
Materially, the house draws from the unfinished construction logic present in its surroundings, yet redefines it through the predominant use of exposed brick. The resulting chromatic and tactile contrast with the surrounding gray concrete blocks does not seek to distance the project from its environment, but rather to revisit the same constructive language through a different approach.
The dwelling is organized into three interconnected volumes that generate a sequence of courtyards, which become the guiding principle of the project. These patios — conceived as voids — operate as filters against urban noise, introduce natural light, and articulate a fluid relationship between interior and exterior, enabling multiple ways of inhabiting the space.
The first courtyard, containing the entrance, acts as a threshold between the street and domestic life. The second, inward and concealed, becomes a silent core and source of light. The third, of a more social character, is gradually revealed along the spatial sequence, establishing a balance between intimacy and openness.
In this way, Tiburón House proposes an exploration of mass and void, fragmentation and continuity, constructing a way of dwelling articulated through courtyards as spaces of pause, silence, and encounter.
