AMIRÁ is located on top of a hill, above the city of Querétaro, which endows the building with privileged views of its surroundings.
The project is organized in superimposed and displaced blocks of regular geometry where each housing unit receives natural illumination and ventilation, along with views towards the city.
The regular geometry of the housing blocks is penetrated by bodies of more angular, porous, and permeable geometry that contain the common areas, denoting with this gesture the different uses and dynamics of the program. These spaces of coexistence for the building’s community are prolonged into the vacuum in cantilever, half opened, looking to gift the users with quality areas.
The rear façade is mainly constituted to resolve the vertical and horizontal circulations, facing the entry plaza. The main façade features a transparency that gazes at the city with prolonged terraces that generate shadow and mitigate the temperature gain in the interior given its west orientation.
Two distinct shades of apparent concrete give materiality to the façade, which, as the sun goes down, adopts the ochre and earthy tones from the scrubs and dry surroundings of the building.
