Aware of the influence of the environment on our wellbeing, like curious trans-generational ‘voyagers’ the Aragonés seek every opportunity for exploration-experimentation, in order to learn how to see, understand and adapt to the unknown. Thus their headquarters in Mexico City, in the exclusive green zone of Bosques de las Lomas, also presents an atypical dimension, a far cry from preset schemes: it is the sum of two houses, a residence for friends, and a studio-atelier, an alchemy of private and public spaces interpreted in a sophisticated perspective of socializing, hospitality and work, all at a single location.
Los Rombos, as this distributed home-hub is called, due to the four rhomboid volumes that form the complete and independent parts connected by fluid pathways, is above all an oasis of experiential purification, to share with others. The four ‘grotto-houses’ with their rigorous geometric lines inserted in a very large perimeter set by tall trees and punctuated with regenerating pools of water, embody all the Mexican character of the Aragonés: the unconditional love of light, sought through orientation and in the rhythm of every continuous or interrupted line drawn by the pencil, together with the passion for well-gauged transparency and the incessant dialogue between indoors and outdoors.