Casa Somosierra

Nestled in Jardines en la Montaña, in the south of Mexico City, Casa Somosierra is the renovation of a family residence with decades of history. The project stems from a clear desire: to adapt to the passing of time and to the natural landscape of El Pedregal.

Designed by OVT in collaboration with Paar Taller, the intervention was organized around two main principles: reconfiguring circulations and orientations to optimize solar gain, and reconnecting the interior with an exterior natural environment that had long been replaced by synthetic surfaces.

The distribution unfolds in three levels that follow the slope of the site: the basement contains secondary bedrooms and a rear garden patio; the ground floor integrates social areas, the kitchen, and a renewed access leading directly to the garden and barbecue area; and the first floor houses the main bedroom and a family room with terrace. All together with an elevator and a ramp to the garden is given accessibility to the complete house’s layout. Lighting’s design was conceived as atmosphere rather than accent, extending the landscape’s experience.

The garden became the heart of the project, expanding like a nervous system into the vital spaces of the house. With native species of the ecosystem of El Pedregal creates a landscape that remains green year-round with integrated passive systems for rainwater collection.

Casa Somosierra preserves original elements of strong material and emotional value, such as a lemon tree of the infancy, weaving them into an architecture that dialogues with nature and memory. It is transformed with care, to remain what it has always been: home.