The interdisciplinary design workshop based in Mexico City, Esrawe Studio, has developed the 576 m² project called Sierra Fría house, located in the country's capital.

The project for the 4-member single-family house has a program that includes a garden, four bedrooms, a studio, a living room, dining room, kitchen, outdoor patio, cellar, and upper terrace. It is with this premise that the proposal seeks to generate spaces for interaction and introspection through built architecture and its inhabitants.
The Esrawe Studio design consists of a series of volumes, in the shape of a horseshoe, which is discovered and undressed along the path that, together with the monolithic character of its materiality, generates a continuous flow around the garden.

This is how the garden element plays a fundamental role in the project since it becomes the heart of the program, and where the flow of the project revolves around it and allows the different rooms to enjoy views towards it.
 

Description of project by Esrawe Studio

The request was for an intimate space for a four-person family. A search for promoting spaces of encounter and interaction, fostering an introspective relationship, isolated from the exterior. A series of volumes, in a horseshoe shape, reveal themselves and unwind throughout the way.

The continuity of the facade, expressed by a single material (brick), contributes to the monolithic and introspective character of the concept. The multiple volumes shaping it become the skin containing and framing the privacy. When entering the house a continuously-flowing space is revealed surrounding the garden, the element that brings it all together and the core of the design, which is visible from all of the rooms and common spaces.

The architectural program includes a garden, four bedrooms, a studio, living room, dining room, kitchen, outdoor patio, wine cellar, and rooftop terrace. 

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Design team
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Javier García-Rivera, Michele Bajona, Alessandro Sperdutti, Juan Pablo Uribe, Eduardo González, Daniela Pulido, Daniel Torres, Enrique Tovar, Luis Escobar, Abraham Carrillo.
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Creative Direction.- Héctor Esrawe. Architecture, Interior Design, and Furnishing.- Esrawe Studio. Project Leader.- Ángel Campos. Renders.- Moisés González, Lupita Godínez, Arturo Aquino, Yair Ugarte. Structure.- CARUNTI. Engineering and Installations.- COR Ingeniería. Lighting.- LUA Luz en Arquitectura. Landscaping.- Entorno Taller de Paisaje.
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Leydam Consultores SC.
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576 m².
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Start and End Year.- 2019.
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Mexico City, Mexico.
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Esrawe Studio is a cross-disciplinary design atelier located in Mexico City. Its aim is to develop furniture, interior design and architectural solutions for museums, hotels, restaurants, bars, offices, residential developments and private houses.

The team at Esrawe Studio consists of about one hundred people, and includes from highly experienced designers, architects, specialized production technicians, and graphic designers, to craftsmen and women, administrators, and, of course,  a team of manufacturing experts that makes sure that each one of the studio’s products is optimally crafted –from conceptualization to the finishing details.

Héctor Esrawe was born in 1968 in Mexico City. He graduated from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) with the title of Industrial Designer in 1992. He started his career as an independent designer under the firm Esrawe Studio in 2003. He was a design professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana for four years and created the Industrial Design Degree in the CENTRO study house, where he was Design Director for three years.  

Esrawe’s designs include a great variety of typologies, from furniture and objects to interiors, commercial spaces, installations and cultural exhibitions. His work is characterized by the great passion and respect he feels for the objects and furniture created by hand, in combination with the use of technologies and contemporary industrial processes. This has earned him recognition and international awards such as Mexico’s Best Interior Designer at Firenze Entremuros Award 2019, Best of Year Award 2019, AZ Award 2018, Jury Prize and People's Choice in FRAME Awards 2018, Wallpaper Design Award 2018 and Interior Prectice of the Year in World Interior News 2018 among others.   

His work is present in the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, with the Centípede bench and the Vestigios jewelry collection. He has participated in different conferences and workshops around the world; his work has been published in numerous print and digital media.
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Published on: September 15, 2020
Cite: "Introspective relationship, isolated from the outside. Sierra Fría house by Esrawe Studio" METALOCUS. Accessed
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