Casa Maca / Workshop Design + Construction
Located a few steps from one of the most emblematic avenues of the city of Mérida, Casa Maca is a historic former residence from the Porfiriato era.
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Located a few steps from one of the most emblematic avenues of the city of Mérida, Casa Maca is a historic former residence from the Porfiriato era.
The building object of this rehabilitation is a single-family house between party walls built in Barcelona in 1942. In the urban fabric of the neighbourhood, typologies from the early 1900s and new buildings coexist.
The existing house is a magnificently wide property with a traditional central stair layout and two rooms either side. This layout benefits from a shallow plan from front to back and classically proportioned windows providing daylight and views from every room.
The customers are a young family (including 2 children), with background in high-tech and education fields. While searching for their dream apartment, they had found an available one at the building which they rented an apartment at.
The interior intervention consists of the structural consolidation of a roof that was on the verge of collapse due to the buckling of the wooden beams that supported it, which had been weakened by woodworm.
The interior renovation project for Sombrerería is located in one of the most emblematic streets of the Old Quarter of Bilbao.
This magnificent farm house is situated in one of north Israel’s oldest cooperative communities (‘Moshav’). This 600 sqm farm house is the home to a couple in their late 40’s.
Project: Modern Inversion Architects: Klopf Architecture Project team: Geoff Campen, John Klopf, Sherry Tan, and Alison Markowitz-Chan Interior furnishings and decoration: Urbanism Designs Contractor: San Francisco Design and Construction Landscape Architect: Terremoto Structural Engineer: ZFA Location: San Francisco, California Photography: ©2021 Mariko Reed The homeowners lived in their San Francisco spec house for a few