Calle Pino, Mexico City, Mexico
In the 1970s, the Gallardo concrete studio and home was built on Pino Street in the San Jerónimo hills on the outskirts of Mexico City.
The labyrinthine San Jerónimo home of Gallardo is a veritable treasure trove of the modernist architect’s numerous designs. The roof of the house is a simplified version of the Möbius strip (a geometrical form discovered by German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius in 1858) and resembles an infinity loop.
In the living room, which features the residence's gridded ceiling and concrete fireplace, furnishings are paired with paintings, photos and a number of contemporary designs.
The pattern on the concrete ceiling runs throughout the house, creating the atmosphere of a mysterious underground space.
The workshop is replete with paint, tools and scraps of wood.
The studio of architect Ernesto Gómez Gallardo: The computer in the corner is decades old; Gallardo preferred to sketch by hand and rarely turned to digital help. On a simple desk stands an unusual glass dome. Inside it, a crucifix and a gilded metal rose. Around it are piles of sketches, cartoons, blueprints, poems and letters. The shelves beyond creak under the weight of encyclopedias, decades old issues of National Geographic аnd stories by Jorge Luis Borges.
The single-legged HemisFair 68, one of the many pieces in the house designed by Gallardo himself, along with the sofas and wooden bookshelves.
Magnifique j’adore 👏
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