Casa Organica / Javier Senosiain
Casa Orgánica (1984) by Javier Senosiain in Naucalpan de Juárez, just outside of Mexico City. The architect designed the house for his family. A Pedro Friedeberg chair in the living room of the original portion of the house, which is underground. As Senosiain describes it, the initial concept was defined in two large spaces: one day and one night, looking for the feeling that inside the person will enter the land, that was aware of the uniqueness of this space without losing integration with the exterior green areas. For the construction process a moldable material was needed given the design of the house: ferrocement was the right answer. This material, the origin of reinforced concrete and long forgotten, promised a monolithic sculpture, resistant, moldable and highly elastic. The ferrocement assembly began to be placed on the template that looked like a skateboard rink, forming the envelope with a metallic skeleton, in which the rods were arranged in the form of rings, c...