Folding its central courtyard into the side setback, LV73, a house in Zapopan by Ana Victoria Pérez-Gil and Saúl Figueroa, gathers its outdoor space into one landscape running the length of the plan.
Ana Victoria Pérez-Gil and Saúl Figueroa lay the house out as a horseshoe, a plan bent around an open centre, on a lot in Zapopan, Jalisco. In the pair's own account, that layout is what organises the home, and it is also what gives the interiors proper ventilation and natural light, on the ground floor and on the upper floor alike.
The central courtyard does not stop at its own walls but carries on into the side setback, the strip of ground left free along the boundary. Joined, the two cease to be separate pieces of ground and become a single landscape, which the studio describes as "consolidating the outdoor space as a robust landscape body along the longitudinal axis of the house." The open ground has one shape, and it runs the long way.
The central space is held by what the studio calls "a succession of staggered volumes that open it up visually toward the front of the lot." The palette is short: sand-toned stucco in a range of variations, and rosa morada wood for the woodwork. The studio credits that materiality with a continuous flow between interior and exterior.
The result, by the studio's account, is calm. Set LV73 beside PRM39, the pair's 2024 house inside La Primavera forest, also in Zapopan, and the difference lies in how open ground is shared out. There, on a site of dense existing trees with a natural ravine at the rear, the program splits into distinct volumes tied together by courtyards, gardens and walkways, and a main walkway connects the parts. Its materials are stucco, stone and wood. At LV73 the outdoor space is pulled into one piece.
