Casa PF turns its gaze to its interior, protecting a timeless and unforced connected habitation

Casa PF is a small dwelling located in the southern part of the city of Morelia capital of the Mexican state of Michoacán; it is located within the large plot of popular "cotos," private residential neighborhoods that are a mode of housing development in recent years that responds to the wave of insecurity that plagues the city. The house designed by Infantes Arquitectos, surrounded only by the expanse of other dwellings, seeks to address this issue by showing itself as serene, silent, almost blind on the outside, offering shelter on the inside

The interior layout of the home is on two levels; the ground floor, having a limited width, optimizes space, reduces the number of walls, creating a free floor that, while having well-defined zones, can be readjusted according to the user's needs. The client desires a studio space that requires some privacy, away from the social area, but within which a certain sensory harmony can be found; in the architectural design this space finds its location at the forefront, enclosed almost entirely except for the overlook to the inner courtyard that provides lighting and ventilation

This arrangement invites the architects to create a double height in the social area that gives it more natural lighting; to manage solar incidence, a wooden sunshade filters the light that permeates the interior without damaging it and thus creates an atmosphere of spaciousness, a change of scale and hue depending on the time of day. At the rear is another courtyard that can be included to the house as desired, mainly helping ventilation and allowing a private connection to the outside

The upper floor houses the intimacy area; as you ascend the stairs, the space compresses horizontally and then regains the double height that unites the two levels. There are two secondary twin rooms intended for the couple's children and a main one for the owners that enjoys more extension. The main room overlooks the front of the house and, from the semi-covered terrace, one of its sides overlooks the neighborhood; here a wall-screen limits the gazes of neighbors by propitiating intimacy, but a hole in the slab makes the sky visible and allows the entry of the light necessary for the vegetation introduced into the space; another opening frames the view of part of the city with the backdrop of the Cerro del Quinceo volcano. With these simple gestures, what is not needed is concealed, giving way to what influences the daily routine of inhabiting a space