Origami Design by REC Architecture

This project was undertaken to result in a showroom so that issues such as views and exposure are design factors that prevail in form. Given the prevailing climate issues in the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos, was proposed a playful geometric pattern that, following contemporary forms that integrate with a composition consistent with prevailing climatic aspects of where the project would be located.

In this way the design evolves unfolding on each other to create a clean, relegating the role of the scale, highlighting the visual changes and causing the viewer to re-create the inevitable game of metamorphosis leading constructive element: a tense-structure that prolonged (as an exercise in origami) to respond to the solar incidence is presented on the site, also allowing cross ventilation.

The shape and volume status reflects a clear influence of the functional architecture in the extreme with works such as Philip Johnson’s Glass House or the subtle use of the metal structure used by Mies Van Der Rohe who pay tribute to the grid used to base angles.

This project will integrate innovative features such as the wall of soap brand ‘dunce’ used for bathing, which can be referred to the common stack of bricks used in construction, but in this case using overlapping blocks of “Soap” . It also highlights the performance of windows using the floor as viewers of the underground garden.