CUPA-422（a）项目位于Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán（CUPA）的 “A “楼顶层。这个公寓单元只有60平方米，是符合被称为墨西哥第一个多户家庭的标志性现代建筑群的1080套住宅之一，这是一个具有多种设施的垂直住房项目，并在1949年完成了绿化面积的大幅扩展。CUPA由建筑师Mario Pani设计，采用了混合使用的模式，底层是商店，上层是住房。除了住宅的紧凑性和堆叠性之外，该多户住宅还因其复式的类型而具有创新性，类似于建筑师勒-柯布西耶设计的Unite d’Habitation（1952年）中的类型。这种类型的特点是在两个层面上开发住房，促进了空间的标准化和家用电器的引进，这反映了当时的社会、建设性和技术的变化。

The project CUPA-422 (a) is located on the top floor of building “A” of the Centro Urbano Presidente Alemán (CUPA). With only 60 m2, this apartment unit is one of the 1,080 homes that conform to the iconic group of modern buildings known as the first multifamily in Mexico, a vertical housing project with multiple amenities and significant extensions of green areas completed in 1949. Designed by architect Mario Pani, CUPA incorporates a mixed-use model with shops on the ground floor and housing on the upper floors. In addition to the compactness and stacking of dwellings, the multifamily is innovative due to its duplex typologies, similar to those in the Unite d’Habitation (1952) designed by the architect Le Corbusier. This typology is characterized by developing housing on two levels, promoting the standardization of spaces and the introduction of household appliances, which reflected the social, constructive, and technological changes of its time.

这个改造项目的主要想法是保留公寓的现代本质，寻求恢复其原有的装饰，并将类似的材料融入其设计中。在这个意义上，我们恢复了原始设计中的通道门、楼梯和所有窗户的铁制品的木材。

The main idea of ​​this renovation project was to preserve the modern essence of the apartment, seeking to recover its original finishes and integrating similar materials in its design. In this sense, we recovered the wood of the access door, the stairs, and the ironwork of all the windows from the original design.

该公寓位于两层，在通道层有厨房和餐厅，在上层有客厅、主卧室和浴室。我们在项目开始时，拆除了梁和板上的石膏，以显示混凝土中模板的纹理，连同照明项目，我们让这两种饰面都清晰可见。在底层，放置了白色的水磨石和赤土色浅色的骨料，厨房被完全重新设计，使用木材和不锈钢做台面。

The apartment is located on two levels, on the access level there is the kitchen and dining room, and on the upper level the living room, the master bedroom, and the bathroom. We began the project by removing the plaster on the beams and slab to show the texture of the formwork in the concrete, and together with the lighting project, we leave both finishes visible. On the ground floor, a white terrazzo was placed with aggregates in light shades of terracotta, and the kitchen was completely redesigned using wood and stainless steel for the countertop.

我们决定保留以前的业主为上层楼获得的开放空间，取消原来项目中对房间的划分。在保持这个多功能空间的基础上，我们的改造重点是浴室和衣柜，并将地板换成了我们通过清除楼梯上的油漆而发现的像原来一样的木地板。卫生间的地板被替换了，一半的墙壁被覆盖上了底层使用的水磨石。此外，还用同样的材料制作了一个定制的水槽，用赤土色的金属框架，我们还用同样的色调制作了淋浴框架。

We decided to keep the open space that the previous owners obtained for the upper floor by removing the divisions for rooms of the original project. Maintaining this multipurpose space, our renovations focused on the bathroom, and closet and replacing the floor with a wooden floor like the original that we discovered by removing the paint from the stairs. The bathroom floor was replaced, and half of the walls were covered with the same terrazzo used on the ground floor. Additionally, a custom sink was made from the same material with a terracotta-tone metal frame, and we use the same tone for the shower frames.

南墙被设想为一个同质的作品，通过一个重要的木质元素覆盖整个墙面，打开一个带架子的壁龛，投射出两个大壁橱，并将卧室的壁橱纳入其中。总之，材料调色板、中性色调和清晰的饰面与原始项目的简洁性相匹配，同时为用户提供了空间自由，使其能够按照个人品味配置空间。

The south wall was conceived as a homogeneous piece that through a significant wooden element covers the entire wall, opens a niche with shelves, projects two large closets, and incorporates the bedroom closet. Together, the material palette, the neutral tones, and the clear finishes match the simplicity of the original project while offering spatial freedom to the user to configure the space to their personal taste.

Architects: José Esparza, Mariel Lozano
Area : 60 m²
Year : 2022
Photographs :Iñaki Viladomat
Manufacturers : Teka, URREA
Design And Ejecution Of The Project : José Esparza Murillo, Mariel Lozano Villarreal
City : Mexico City
Country : Mexico