design. We design five or six residential projects a year. I oversee each design to its details. An architect follows up on the project from design through construction, and at certain times he has backup from other teams inside the office. We charge a percentage of the total construction cost estimate.
INTERIORS
We employ outside interior designers, and we have interior designers in our office. You cannot separate architecture from interior design. I feel that the architect should be the director of the overall design.
BACKGROUND
Diego Villasenor received his architecture degree from the Uni-versidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City and began his office in 1976. In Mexico, he has designed an apartment building in Mexico City, an airport terminal in Oaxaca, and the master plans of the resort town of Costa Careyes and the marina development of Puerto Juluapan in Manzanillo. Throughout Mexico, Central America and the United States, Villasenor has designed more than forty residential projects.
BELOW LEFT: Stairs wind up and around a steep cliff to another Costa Careyes vacation house that Villasenor designed to merge with the dense vegetation.
BELOW: High on a cliff, the house is distinguished by immense palapas. "The idea was to rescue the way ancient people once lived at the seashore," adds Villasenor. |
