A young team of Moscow-based architects and visualizers imagine a vibrant and monumental residence in the Sonoran desert of Mexico.

As featured in DesignBoom, the designers, Davit Jilavyan and Mary Jilavyan collaborated with a client from Mexico who envisioned a one family residence expressive of minimal geometries and bold finishes while avoiding the ‘simply coloured box with windows’ housing style. While the team didn’t want to invent something entirely new, they worked toward generating a harmonious combination of colour and form.

The resulting proposed volume is characterised by sculpturally pitched roofs, boldly blocked hues, and irregular windows. Introducing an element of irregularity, the windows are scattered and expressed in different shapes and dimensions. Alongside the custom design, this solution allows light to penetrate all rooms of the house. The project ultimately reflects the brightly coloured, minimal geometries of classic modernist Mexican architecture.

During self-isolation they conceived the idea of a whole Sonora Art Village.