Category: Living Complex,Master Plans
Region: Mexico
Year: 1997
Location: VALLE DE BRAVO, STATE OF MEXICO, MEXICO
FT2 Construction: 10,226 sq ft
FT2 Ground: 4,356,150 sq ft
Involved Areas: Master Plan, Architecture

Collaborators:
LEGORRETA^®
Ricardo Legorreta
Víctor Legorreta
Noé Castro
Jorge Covarrubias

Associate Architects:

GDU Mario Schjetnan

Consultants:

STRUCTURAL DESIGN: Humberto Pánuco
MEP: Hecnie y Asociados
LANDSCAPE DESIGN: Grupo de Diseño Urbano Mario Schjetnan
CONTRACTOR: Mario Pamanes

Photographer:
Paul Zcitrom


Hacienda Santana is a residential development in a resort area about two hours’ drive from Mexico City. The project consists of 70 lots and a club house. We designed the master plan and the club house. The site is a very beautiful area of 100 acres that have beautiful views of the mountains around. We tried to get advantage of the topography and come out with very different lots • that although have more or less the same size (1 acre) each one has if s own personality for the different owners. At the end of the property we located the club house that houses a lap pool, a pool for children, a restaurant, living room, private bathrooms with sauna, steam and a fitness center, a soccer field, tennis courts and a paddle tennis. The architecture was inspired in the old traditional haciendas of Mexico so we played with large stone walls made out of lava local materials, high ceilings and because it rains a lot with sloped tile roofs. Thanks to a couple of fountainheads we were able to create a small artificial lake that played a very important role in the design. We designed the club house around this lake where you have a walking way around. Even the design of the chapel is within the lake so that you have the altar in the middle of the water and the public is sitting in the lake edge. This chapel is used for special events like weddings or even for concerts. The pool was treated more like a fountain and a meeting place, so that in one side you have the views to the lake and in the other the mountains. It has become a common meeting place where even the national Mexican soccer team had some of its preparation match before France World Cup.