Cube House
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At a glance
- Project by: Agraz Arquitectos
- Location: Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
- Program: Single family house
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Cube House © Mito Covarrubias View project image |
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Underground floor plan © Agraz Arquitectos View project image |
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Ground floor plan © Agraz Arquitectos View project image |
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First floor plan © Agraz Arquitectos View project image |
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Section © Agraz Arquitectos View project image |
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Main facade © Agraz Arquitectos View project image |
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Rear facade © Agraz Arquitectos View project image |
Architect's statement
The cube house empties its interior, throwing itself and conquering the site with its weightlessness: in a geometric game that indicates how volumes hand over against 
the geometry that draws the light and the topography of the landscape.
The house as an answer to the place where it settles. On the top 
of a hill overlooking the creek. This is the way it is organized according to how it naturally exists.
In steep sloping terrain the house poses 
and divides itself in two strata. In the first the noble spaces are trapped at street level coexisting with the public life of the house. 
It is here where the ideology of the cabin takes place, the urn, a great space double the height to guarantee the admiration of nature.
Once 
there, movement occurs, appropriating the shelter in the depth of the terrain, downstairs the cave as a refuge, a space for protection, where bedrooms and 
intimacy find a place, coexisting peacefully with the view on the garden that fades away while the house rises, reaching its exterior fullness in terrace 
pathways that feed the imaginary of the dwelling as a place of its own, dominant and protective.
The purpose of this house is being a literal 
translation of a tectonic house idea, above a stereotomic one, as a distillation of the essence of architecture. Once again — less is more.
Details/Credits
- Project name: Cube House
- Location: Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
- Program: Single family house
- Area: Site Area: 779.50 m2 • Building Area: 387.60 m2 • Total Floor Area: 612 m2
- Year: Project: 2005 • Construction: 2006
- Client: Joaquín Solbes
- Project by: Agraz Arquitectos
- Team: Principal Designer: Ricardo Agraz • Design Team: Beatriz Ramírez Romero, Alberto Tacher, Sara Tamez
- Others: Construction: Salvador Aguirre Cordero • Wood Work: Esteban Gutiérrez Velazco • Glass work: Ventalum • Illumination: Sergio Talancón Crail • Baths: Ramsés Galindo • Stones: Luigi Sasso • Painting Alejandro Pérez • Interior Design: Scandinavian Design • Art: Hector Navarro
- Text: Courtesy of Agraz Arquitectos
- Images: Courtesy of Agraz Arquitectos
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