Casa Inversiones Miura sits in a San José neighborhood in the early stages of transition — large single-family houses beginning to give way to offices and apartments. That shift was not yet legible when the project was conceived, but the architectural parti anticipated it: the building was designed to allow conversion to alternative programs if the urban pressure eventually demanded it.
The steeply sloping site produced a clear, rational response. A narrow three-story volume is supported primarily by C-shaped walls at both short ends of the rectangle. A system of T-shaped prestressed floor slabs resolves the spans so that interior partitions — initially in timber — can be reconfigured in the future without structural consequence. Transverse to the main volume, a stair element and a terrace volume are added to the south, partially restoring the stepped rear garden displaced by the building’s footprint. These two elements serve as formal counterpoint to the clarity of the main volume.
In its urban context the house reads as vertical — not only because of its three floors, but because the shed roof and the ascending topography stack to amplify its height further, giving it a presence in the streetscape disproportionate to its actual footprint.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​