Posted on March 17, 2021.
On the outskirts of Denver, architects from the Mexican architecture firm Productora are working on innovations to the house of the American dream.
Some $200 per square meter. Having to do a lot with a little can generate creativity and innovation, which the audacious Mexican firm Productora has recently demonstrated with its experimental homes in Denver, Colorado.
Productora’s architects are rethinking how to build in low-density areas, like the inner belt around Denver’s downtown, and they point to their models that rethink domestic living. Productora used inexpensive and standardized building materials to create multiple shared living spaces on a plot that would have previously been converted into a single-family home. Co-housing is fundamental to their project. “Many American cities and towns are reconsidering legislation in suburban areas that have downtowns, in order to allow four, six, or even eight units in plots where previously only one si