DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Ada Rodriguez, Rafael Pineda, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Tegucigalpa, Honduras

YEAR | 2021

AREA | 365 m2

DESCRIPTION

The CS house is a project developed in response to the owner's desire for space and flexibility to live, work and receive family and friends.

Located in a residential neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, the plot has dimensions, and topography was a determinant factor in the layout and volumetric shape.

The challenge was to fit the program in a ten by twenty-one-meter plot, giving every room the feeling of openness and interconnection. The result is a story house where each floor has a differentiated program but is still interconnected through internal and external views.

Simple volumes and lines are combined following AF|A principles of simplicity, elegance, and harmony, enhanced by light reflections, vegetation, and textures that give its unique character.

On the ground floor, the social area is conformed by a double-height living room interconnected with the dining and kitchen area that opens to the pool; in this way, the kitchen becomes a barbecue space by just opening the glass wall.

The site's topography allowed the addition of a sub floor was added to build the owner's atelier and service areas, which are conveniently separated but accessible from the rest of the house.

The first and second floors have a more private character. The master bedroom occupies the whole first floor, with a private living room and terrace. The second floor contains secondary rooms, a home office, and balconies with views of the pool and garden.

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Roger Martinez, Denis Hurtado, Edwing Castillo, Jorge Medina

LOCATION | Danli, Honduras

YEAR | 2022

AREA | 110 m2

DESCRIPTION

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Ada Rodriguez, Edwing Castillo, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Tegucigalpa, Honduras

YEAR | 2023

AREA | 465 m2

DESCRIPTION

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Ada Rodriguez, Denis Hurtado, Rafael Pineda, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Danli, Honduras

YEAR | 2019

AREA | 360 m2

DESCRIPTION

The OC house is a project designed for a family who dreamed of a place where they could share memorable moments, integrating work, leisure, and rest.

The design consisted of two displaced blocs and a connecting volume, creating two private courtyards and allowing every room to have air flow, natural light, and garden views.

Spaces are divided in a way that each family member can have simultaneous activities without interfering with each other but also allowing encounters and visual connections.

The project layout allows different levels of privacy for diverse types of experiences. When you enter the double-height lobby, you have just a taste of the design of the house that unfolds slowly through four main routes. The first one gives access only to the office for business meetings or quick document signs. The second one takes you to the social living room with views of the pool. The third one, walking straight from the lobby, takes you to the intimacy of the kitchen and dining, connected to a terrace that gives you access to the pool. In the fourth one, the stairs guide you to the rooms and the more private spaces reserved for the family members with a terrace with views of the mountains and a movie living room.

The two stories are defined by horizontal lines that help to control solar radiation. Relations with nature were crucial for the design. The house includes internal and external planters that became part of the architecture and gives its particular character. Finally, openable lovers control the relations between inside and outside, complementing natural light control and privacy.

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Cesar Monterola, Ada Rodriguez, Rafael Pineda

LOCATION | San Pedro Sula, Honduras

YEAR | 2016

AREA | 360 m2

DESCRIPTION

A house with views of the Merendon mountains was designed in San Pedro Sula a city with tropical weather, high temperatures, and elevated humidity level throughout the year. The main goal was to create a house that could be protected from the west sun and warm condition allowing light and air entrance from the east and also the orienting the views to the mountains located at the south-west side.

The main facade is shaped by a principal solid volume supported by stone walls, combined with wood doors and louvers that help regulate both privacy and heat from the outside. The internal facade is completely open to the gardens, mountains, and the pool which reflects the house as a water mirror. The interiors are interconnected by double heights and open spaces allowing air circulation and giving the sensation of amplitude reinforced with a natural landscape view.

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Danli, Honduras

YEAR | 2021

AREA | 75 m2

DESCRIPTION

The AA House project began as a solution for a family with specific characteristics and needs, however, its value as a design strategy for social housing can be studied for future developments in an urban scale.

The constructive structure of independent pieces allows the house to be developed in phases, adapting to the family and its needs over time, allowing a diversity of options for future aditions opening the room for organic growth, avoiding the monotony of massive construction.

The family has also lived in the country side, therefore to maintain conections with nature and almost an unperceptible division between inside and outside was crucial.

The house consists of two blocks connected through a central pergola where nature becomes the main protagonist. The first one contains the social and service area, and the large parallel windows allow the integration of the interior and exterior as if it were a single space. The second block is dedicated to the provate areas where the rooms are located. The bathrooms, naturally ventilated through an opening in the ceiling that contributes to the perception of an extended space, while keeping the number of square meters of construction as low as possible.

The main challenge was to create a project where the required program could be built with the established budget, keeping space, experience and detail quality.

The strategy was to keep the construction area to the minimum. To do so, each of the room would extended outwards through window walls that could open completelly, giving to the users the perception of larger spaces.

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Danli, Honduras

YEAR | 2021

AREA | 150 m2

DESCRIPTION

DESIGN TEAM |

ALEJANDRA FERRERA

YEAR | 2014

AREA | 290 M2

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Ada Rodriguez, Rafael Pineda, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Danli, Honduras

YEAR | 2022

AREA | 800 m2

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Tegucigalpa, Honduras

YEAR | 2022

AREA | 120 m2

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera

LOCATION | Danli, Honduras

YEAR | 2021

AREA | 15 m2

DESCRIPTION

The project takes inspiration from the Alejandra Ferrera Architecture design principles: Simplicity, elegance, and harmony, integrating light gold accents, earthy colors and textures with delicate curved lines.

The furniture integrates a main desk, a presentation table, exhibition shelves, and storage, combining functionality and beauty in perfect balance.

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Tegucigalpa, Honduras

YEAR | 2023

AREA | 10 m2

DESCRIPTION

The loenologie bar and exhibition space was inspired by the wine production process as the brand itself, as a metaphor where materials, textures, and colors tell a story that will be preserved in the user's memory.

The oxidated copper finish reminds the fermentation of the wine. a composition of curved lines expresses the liquid flow and movement. The contrast with the bar texture resembles earth, where everything comes from and goes to, closing a perfect lifecycle.

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Danlí, Honduras

YEAR | 2021

AREA | 95 m2

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera

LOCATION | Tegucigalpa, Honduras

YEAR | 2023

AREA | 6.25 m2

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Choluteca, Honduras

YEAR | 2022

AREA | 55 m2

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Javier Cortez, Roger Martinez

LOCATION | Tegucigalpa, Honduras

YEAR | 2021

AREA | 75 m2

DESCRIPTION

DESIGN TEAM |

ALEJANDRA FERRERA

LOCATION | DANLI HONDURAS

YEAR | 2015

AREA | 1,550 M2

AWARDS |

1ST PLACE - NO CONSTRUCTED |

I ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE, HONDURAS 2019

The design process was a miracle itself. From the beginning the idea was to develop a building resembling the illusion to be floating in the water; the same way that The Virgin appeared to the fishermen in the Caribbean sea.

The building is formed by one main volume which contains the auditorium connected to tree secondary blocks with complementary spaces, all surrounded by a water fountain.

The exteriors were projected as a public space which all the neighbors could share, giving a special place to a Virgin’s sculpture, a small sanctuary that would be always opened for praying and offerings.

The interiors were conceived to provoke a holy experience. When passing the main entrance, the pilgrims walk a ramp over the water. Inside, the fountain reflections create a game o lights and shadows at the foyer and the auditorium. The roof and ceilings were designed for the acoustical comfort and natural illumination entrance.

Materials and colors were also selected inspired by the miracle. The main volume is white representing The Virgin and its Holiness. The perforated corten facade brings to memory a cooper quarry where She was placed; this material also allows natural ventilation and illumination protecting from the sun at the same time.

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera

LOCATION | Marseen, The Netherlands

YEAR | 2020

AREA | 7500 m2

DESCRIPTION

The project consisted on the renovation of the priori Emmaus building designed by the architect Jan de Jong and Tom Hans Vanderlaan in the city of Marseen according to Bosshe school principles. The concept came up by the site analysis, and the study of the Priori Emmaus monastery, considering the design process and architectural principles that were applied.

In the urban scale, the site, whit its special English landscape settings can work as an element of connection between the surrounding neighborhoods. Interventions to allow circulation over the Vetch and improve the relation with the city center, streets that now are discontinued can be joined with the existing grid. In the building scale the sinuosity of the circulation allows meeting points for social interaction, and places for permanency and delight. Main paths are like streets, enhancing the feeling of neighborhood, community and belonging, but in a safe and control environment for the user (elderly and people with dementia).

Over all the building and the site have a great potential for high quality spaces to create connections with the city, with nature and a variety of places for social interactions.

The design principles applied on the design are the proportions, following a grid that can be extended making the building to become a cellar when looked into a bigger scale; contrast, the idea of contras is used to highlight the richness of textures; hierarchy by using the intervention to frame the building; composition with columns as a space delimitation where inspiration for the new design as well as the nature in the surrounding like the scale of the trees and the canal in the west side.

The intervention resulted in an extension oriented to the west to preserve the surrounding nature having as a main goal to highlight the existing building qualities in a way that the old and the new can coexist in a respectful relation.

DESIGN TEAM |

Alejandra Ferrera, Denis Hurtado, Ada Rodriguez, Rafael Pineda, Roger Martinez, Jose Guerrero

LOCATION | Danli, Honduras

YEAR | 2017

AREA | 1,050 m2

DESCRIPTION