San Ignacio House by PALMA
San Ignacio house is a renovation and addition project of a house located in the state of Nayarit in Mexico. The client’s requirement was to renovate the existing building …
Palma Studio
Palma is an architecture office based in Mexico City and Sayulita. The practice is geared towards finding integrated and individual solutions to each architectural problem. Their approach is based on a detailed analysis of the immediate context and a design process which is open to experimentation and exploration. The result is a constant search towards an architecture of atmospheres which move people and truly belong.
In 2021 they were named as one of the world’s 20 emerging and promising practices by Wallpaper* magazine in its annual Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory listing.
Palma received the League Prize 2021 from the Architectural League of New York, which, established in 1981, seeks to recognize the exemplary and provocative work of young practitioners in North America.
Currently, they are developing projects of different scales and typologies across Mexico. Their work has been published in different national and international media. They have been invited to give workshops and lectures in different parts of Mexico, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts of China in Beijing, and at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid.
Recently they were selected as the 2022 Michael Owen Jones Memorial Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
The firm was founded in 2016 by Ilse Cárdenas, Regina De Hoyos, Diego Escamilla and Juan Luis Rivera, graduates from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México UNAM School of Architecture.
LOCATION: Mexico City
LEARN MORE: palma-mx.com
Litibu Bungalow by Palma
The 50m2 bungalow is located in Litibu, a small town on the coast of the Mexican Pacific. The bedroom and living space are seperated in two volumes to create an open patio in between.
Mixed Use Building – Chiripa Project by Palma
Chiripa Mixed Use Building is a project that seeks to experiment with the way users relate to each other in an undefined typology, a hybrid between house – apartments – hotel
Small Studio Apartment Designed by the Mexican Studio Palma on the Roof of a House
In Mexico City, the growing demand for housing in certain areas, as well as the increase in density, has motivated the population to find ways of making the most out of their rooftops. In this case, the client was looking to expand a small extra room to be used as a full studio with an independent access.