The Kiltro Polaris Arquitectura studio, led by Victor Ebergenyi Kelly, has designed the Risch House, a two-story house that is located in the city of Cancún, the most populated city in the state of Quintana Roo, in southeastern Mexico. Outwardly, the house is seen as a prism that surrounds itself and shelters itself like the plot.

On the ground floor, the house is developed in the shape of an H, standing out for its simplicity in all its areas, from the design of the house program itself, the use of materials and finishes as well as the structure itself. It is located on a rectangular plot that connects the front patio with the rear patio through a narrow corridor, where the house is off-center from the plot to give continuity to the plot and be able to enjoy nature.
The Risch House, designed by Kiltro Polaris Arquitectura, reflects a simple but elegant composition, closes in, and tries to isolate itself from the chaos outside. The two floors that are developed in the house have different exterior cladding: The ground floor is developed with vertical slats in front of a smooth finish on the upper level.

At the same time, there is a contrast of spaces, internally, the house tries to give importance to its opacity. However, access to the roof through the nucleus of stairs that develops in the house, allows the user to climb and enjoy the views of the city of Cancun.

 

Description of project by Kiltro Polaris Arquitectura

Casa Risch is located on a corner lot within a controlled access residential neighborhood. It is a house for a family of five in which most of the expectations of its future inhabitants were integrated while respecting the guidelines of the residential complex. At the same time, a strategy was proposed to control the cost and time of construction.

Both to avoid the anodyne context and for protection from rain and sun, the house was closed to the outside, but the decision was made to open it to the inside of the plot, and thus provide natural light and illumination to all its areas.

Thanks to its simple structure, the house allows the integration of the garden to the living/dining room through a sliding panel that runs across the width of the plot, providing a spatial continuity that eliminates the line between the house and its garden.

The idea of a compact home, integrated with simple materials, efficient construction, and easy maintenance resulted in a practical, discreet, and unpretentious architectural object.

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Architect.- Victor Ebergenyi Kelly. Team.- Noe Urquijo, Valeria Villanueva, Yissel Alanis, Jimena Robles, Daniel Schondube.
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Engineering.- PORDIMEX, Alfredo de la Cruz.
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180 sqm.
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2020.
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Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
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Victor Ebergenyi Kelly (b. Mexico City, 1985) graduated in Architecture from the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) in 2008, but his interests include illustration, photography and furniture design which have been included in a number of international publications. 
 
He started his career as an architect collaborating with offices like MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects (Halifax, Canada) and JC Arquitectura (Mexico City, Mexico). Upon graduating he became part of the newly created Autoridad del Espacio Público (Public Space Authority), working in projects for the recovery of emblematic public spaces in Mexico City. In 2011 he graduated from the Master in Collective Housing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and then moved to Vaduz, Liechtenstein to collaborate with Baumschlager & Eberle Architekten in housing projects.  
 
In 2013 he eventually returned to his country to become part of INFONAVIT´s (Institute of National Housing Fund for Workers) new administration coordinating projects and proposals for the improvement of social housing in Mexico. After years of roaming and collaborating with different offices and of teaching in different universities as an assistant professor (i.e Universidad Iberoamericana, UNAM, Universidad del Caribe, Universidad del Sur, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), in 2016 he decided to resume his personal practice as an architect, founded Kiltro Polaris Arquitectura and moved to Cancún, México to design and build his first housing project.  
 
From 2016 until now, with a wide network of collaborators, he has had the opportunity to design and build different housing projects (from social housing to residential) along the Riviera Maya. Today, Kiltro Polaris Arquitectura is an office that works on the solution of urban and housing problems through pragmatic, simple and constructively coherent proposals which include a continuous search for spatial quality, recognizing in the architecture that is built, the perfect tool to trigger improvements in the environments we inhabit. 
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Published on: January 25, 2021
Cite: "Simplicity and elegance in design. Risch House by Kiltro Polaris Arquitectura" METALOCUS. Accessed
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