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Architects: T38 Studio
- Area: 366 m²
- Year: 2014
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Photographs:Fran Parente
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Text description provided by the architects. TLP is located in a residential neighborhood on the upper part of a hill in the city of Tijuana, an incredibly dynamic city that sits on the world’s busiest land border with the city of San Diego. The house is composed of three volumes that contain the main living spaces. The shape of these three volumes, trapezoidal prisms, respond to the irregular shape of the plot.
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The three volumes are perforated in the center by a glass passageway. One of the important objectives was to achieve the correct balance between openness and privacy. Although there are no windows facing the street in the living areas, one is still able to perceive the flow of people traversing from one space to the other through these glass passageways, relating a kind of performative action towards the outside.
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The black volumes, which read like boxes from the street, shift their section through the folding of the concrete roof slabs in order to reflect the trapezoid condition of the plan in the back elevation.
![TLP House / T38 Studio - Windows, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/56aa/e09d/e58e/cefa/d300/0320/newsletter/066_T38Studio_Tulipanes_Fran_Parente_IMG_3310.jpg?1454039184)
On the first floor, the double height living/dining room is connected through an outdoor terrace to the kitchen on the central volume, with the third volume housing the master bedroom. The program of the second floor consists of three bedrooms and a family room.
Note: This project was originally published on April 30, 2016
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