Interior architecture seeks to define space through the details that make it unique. Under this premise, MAYER HASBANI designs a symphony of warm and tenuous lights, hand in hand with forceful intersections between wood and marble, between lightness and darkness; these manage to characterize Renee as a unique apartment full of moments for pleasure and enjoyment.

The main entrance leads us to a first living room that tops off the sight with a frame that gives us the perfect picture: a panoramic view of the golf course that surrounds the apartment. Further on, a sophisticated big format black porcelain on the floor and a change of level in the ceiling now covered with oak staves, change the proportions to create a more intimate space to talk, eat and watch television. At the back, an elegant black volume topped by a white light perimeter helps articulate the spaces of the entire apartment; from the access to the second bedroom, bathroom and playroom to entertain small visitors to the access of the master suite.

In front of the elegant black body, the wall adjacent to the exterior is covered with a fine satin mirror that contrasts with its lightness and ethereal appearance making it seem that the oak ceiling floats above us. In the background, the kitchen appears with a plastic aesthetic that turns it into a conversation. The intelligent use of level changes in the ceiling manages to maintain the visual of the city, even from the kitchen. The striking frame reminds us of the connection between interior and exterior space.

Finally, the main suite was converted into a fluid space without walls that manages to take advantage of the windows that provide a privileged view. In this way, Renee becomes a space of details where elegance and the contemporary converge in exquisite environments that invite hedonism through architecture and interior design.

The MT department is lived as a showroom that although it looks polished and harmonious, it does not cease to surprise with small details that reveal an imbricated architectural game, as it is the careful design of lighting that grants architectural qualities to the whole space or, the smart spatial divisions through the furniture avoiding the use of walls for the space to expand the architectural echo of Mayer Hasbani with much more power.

A long marble walkway of the famous Calacatta Gold unfolds towards the vanishing point on the horizon to give its visitors access to the luxurious MT apartment in Mexico City. The solemn elegance and symmetry of the hallway reveals the mystery of what appears to be that the rest of the public area space is about to open as a sumptuous design exercise. As you walk down the hall towards the next spatial threshold, two sculptural black granite panels act as a screen to unlock the public areas of the house.

The dimensions of the public space are treated with detail, play and sharpness: the large windows overlook the treetops and the golden alucobond columns are mirrors that magnify the reflections and set the rest of the color palette in harmony. The kitchen, in turn, is strategically located in a space of contention that delimits the main circulation space and retracts to give way to the best views in the public areas.

Apartment located in Bosques de las Lomas, Torre Elevia.

It was designed especially for an older couple, they required a space in which they could receive many guests either family or friends, so the social area was quite large, this space overlooks the golf course and wanted to take full advantage, using large windows and creating a terrace with the idea of joining the green elements of the outside with the apartment.

This space is made up of living room, dining room, family room and a kitchenette with suede dining room, the latter was added to this area in order to receive informal guests and have a more relaxed coexistence without the need to move from the kitchen to the dining room.

There is an entrance hall which leads to the kitchen, master bedroom and services. The floor is polished black granite to reflect the silver leaf and make this space look more spacious.

The private area of the apartment was placed in the back since for the clients it is considered a secondary area and most of the time they spend it in the social area, on the other hand this space gives a not so privileged view so in the main bathroom the glass of the shower is an encapsulation of fabric to not lose the natural illumination avoiding the view. The secondary room has the concept of a small suite with folding furniture, this has the function of being a guest room or play area.

This single-family design apartment is located in the west side of Mexico City, in the context of a new and dense urban fabric. The project, although in a new area of development and in a relatively new building, was received in an unacceptable state of conservation and a wasted distribution of resources. The proposed renovation presented an opportunity to enhance a typical luxury apartment with more than the design of its interiors but rather the design of a new living system.

The apartment, accessible through the elevator to the 14th floor, opens itself up to a poetic unwinding of playful and elegant spaces that connect services and amenities. Thought out to serve as both a place for mature business, smart get-togethers and at the same time host children’s parties, the design became a challenge in the reconciliation of spaces and materials. The originality of the project underlies in the clever way of creating new uses and processes for its inhabitants.

The value of the minutiae underlies in the subtlety of designing every detail, for example, the lighting traces axis and directions, creates sensible and peaceful spaces. Opening exterior areas in the east-west axis reduced the air conditioning and was the answer for keeping a ventilated principal area that could evoke a more natural ambience.

On the one hand, the apartment feels like a natural well-rounded place for comfortable living, while on the other it affirms itself as a thought-out design piece expressed by the brilliant composition of new elements inside an unwinding spatial poetry.

The monotonous rhythm that makes up the facades of the houses on Calle Guadarrama is interrupted by an architectural manifesto: the usual architecture evolves plastically to make way for the Casa Guadarrama; a space poetry in the midst of prose. It is an expressionist game of intersecting concrete and granite volumes that stand out from their context for their bold and contemporary design.

It is a house that is discovered, walked and understood through the exploration of its areas. MAYER HASBANI achieved an intelligent game of spaces that pays homage to the mythical Luis Barragán House-Studio from contemporary times as if it were a solid concrete block in which the spaces were subtracted in the same way that a mouse makes holes in its cheese.

The central patio is the heart of the project. Just as the heart transports blood to the arteries, the courtyard controls the development and friendliness of the spaces. It is the element that integrates the garden with the terrace with the dining room and living room, as well as with the other floors. Inside, the circulation core to go up to the second and third floors is a sculptural element that unfolds into different planes to be able to intelligently use the space, it becomes a bridge, it becomes a bedroom. With this game of angles and visual flirtations, it is so precise details obtained by the architecture itself, architecture is its best ornament.

Aware of the complexity of the system, the house was designed to exhibit its high design status, a kind of architectural haute couture. The invoice of a well thought-out and well-managed architecture is what gives it its aura, it is what makes it vibrate and function. The distinction between public, private and services does not exist.

Casa Guadarrama is a discovery in a residential street, traditional in the western area of Mexico City and at the same time a succession of discoveries inside.

The main challenge that this project implied was to achieve a totally open house without divisions, but where the space was not diluted, or the structure lost or the risk of weakening the composition by not reaching a well-defined shape.

The solution consisted in assigning continuity through the floors and ceilings. There are no unevenness’s, and these elements are each made of a single material, so that practically no changes are detected, which contributes to creating the impression that there are no interruptions. The division of the spaces was established by means of elements that, like screens, separate, but do not prevent the experience of a unified and well-integrated space.