We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer sanzpont [arquitectura] about their original and creative Villas design work. sanzpont [arquitectura] is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original villas works.
sanzpont [arquitectura] ("S[") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Living the Gardens Villas. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
S[ : The main principle of this project is to recover an abandoned construction with multi-family housing, with a design that respects and integrates with the environment generating holistic natural and familiar ambiences. The project also offers Wellness amenities such as a yoga deck, outdoor fitness area, picnic and vegetable garden, pool, art corridor, massage tepees, social relax tepees, playground and pet-friendly area.
S[ : The main focus was to create dwellings with an innovative design, but with a local architectural sensation. An avant-garde architecture that feels endemic.
S[ : Our plan for this project is that the families that inhabit it can enjoy harmony. It is especially important for us that the users can see their family grow here and that all users, but especially children, create significant relationships within this compact community and create a strong social fabric these days when social disintegration is a big problem.
S[ : Although the development of the design concept lasted a year, the truth is that it is the accumulation of many years of experience in architecture. We have been refining the design and searching for more optimal solutions that generate greater efficiency.
S[ : Living The Gardens is a shared development where we, the architect and the real estate developer, wanted to generate a different real estate concept that is not just economically centred but it is a concept that offers quality in architecture and quality of life to the users
S[ : The project is a development that is being carried out in partnership with several companies to launch it on the real estate market.
S[ : It started as a commission but in the end, it became a collaborative project with the property to achieve a common goal together, integrating both the economic vision of real estate development and the architectural, social and sustainable vision.
S[ : The influence of this building has been our past experiences and a constant search for excellence in our projects, all of this portrayed in local architecture.
S[ : The target customers are the families that want to live in a site with recreational and social spaces that allow having an excellent quality of life integrated with nature.
S[ : The location, security and the care that has been put into designing the project as a space that takes care of the physical, emotional and social health of the users. Also, it is real estate development not economically centred but that also gives importance to the quality of life of the families that will inhabit it.
S[ : Living The Gardens is based on the enjoyment of the gardens that are generated in the exterior spaces attached to the architecture.
S[ : To develop Living The Gardens we use BIM software, real-time visualization software, and energetic analysis software to achieve a sustainable and bioclimatic architecture.
S[ : The most unique aspect of the design is the integration of the local materials in avant-garde architecture.
S[ : To carry out this project, it was necessary to collaborate with a coordinated multidisciplinary team in which each one contributed with solutions, creating a better result for the building.
S[ : The role of technology is found especially in the development of the project, using specialized software BIM technology.
S[ : As we normally do in all our projects, we made research on the local climate in Cancun and the specific microclimate where the building is located. Also, the building´s congruence with the city and the urban planning had to be analyzed. And finally, we used specialized software to analyze each one of the facades to give the best response to the wind, sunlight, and other climate factors.
S[ : The challenge was to design a project on a piece of land that had an abandoned construction with a single-family house since it had to be used and restored in such a way that multi-family homes of excellent spatial quality would fit.
S[ : We wanted to spread the word that even in a real estate development project, it is possible to offer a high-quality architecture that cares for the environment and users' quality of life while receiving economic profits.
S[ : We learned a lot about the best use and maintenance of traditional materials used in a singular design.
S[ : We would like to emphasize that when the architect and real estate developer see each other as a team right from the beginning, and not just as a client or a service provider, we can make a better and more holistic result.
