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Casa Caja by S-AR
June 06, 2014
Text by Peter Smisek

Architects Empower Local Labourers

Looks can be deceiving, and at first glance, Casa Caja by the Mexican outfit S-AR could be confused for a humble weekend retreat of a modernist-minded millionaire. A certain roughness, soon dispels this image, but the true nature of the project is all the more interesting.

Standing on a standard, 7 by 15 metre building plot in General Zuazua, a suburb of Monterrey – one of Mexico’s wealthiest cities – the house belongs to a low-income family. ‘Construction workers constitute a very vulnerable sector in our society because of the instability of the trade. They are constantly on the move from one building site to another, making it almost impossible to save money or apply for a loan through the government’s housing programme,’ the architects inform us.

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