Build a good house like what we want will certainly respect nature in order to fully and building a relationship with the environment without speaking of energy, sustainability, and ecology, and that through the impact and experience will produce the same respect for nature. To do this, we have taken advantage of the slope of the land in order to create a visual connection at different altitudes with existing vegetation and the landscape outside.

This site is a good plot covers 3500 m2 with a rich and diverse flora, very tall trees, and looked toward the hills of the Valle de Bravo-plated – a town 150 km south-west of Mexico City. The climate is cold in winter (-2 ° C), while summer temperatures can reach 33 ° C, heavy rains fell daily between June and October. Two pavilions, unequal in size, was set in front of the swimming pool. The first and largest contains the living and dining room, kitchen and a working studio. The second one: two bedrooms. Each pavilion with carefully placed on the site, incorporating all the existing trees into the program and face view of the most important. This house is rooted in the existing landscape.

The house was occupied natural ledge on the hillside, overlooking the views to the south and turn to the wind coming from the north. Land drops far below the floor, emphasizing the slope of the land and thus dramatize the progress of the house through the site. Houses that arouses a sense of floating above the park, show a sense of contact with nature. After arriving, visitors find some of the experience: the steep cliffs, flora, house, pool of reflection. Visitors received under the protection of a steel cage, which is entered through a small door that leads into the living room, so that emphasize the contrast between the closed nature of the entrance and living room and full disclosure of the valley itself.

Cladding growing home and to enter into the context of the city. A veneer of clay artisanal specifically developed for the project, similar in texture to traditional homes that you notice in the area. Reaction To The weather is causing an ever-changing material in response to various levels of humidity. Continuity between the landscape and the building is emphasized by structural glass window systems, beyond the conventional distinction between inside and outside. As a result, all the spaces are in direct and intimate contact with nature. The play of light and shadow in this window echoes the abstracted trees cast shadows in the courtyard of the monastery in the Desierto de los leones, located near Mexico City.Via

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