The Mexico City based architectural studio Dellekamp Arquitectos has designed "Cabo house" in San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Project description by the architects:
Casa Cabo is a refuge that invites those who inhabit it to experience the particular conditions of its environment, characterized by an arid nature of high temperatures, peculiar endemic vegetation, and dry winds.
image © Sandra Pereznieto
The house is resting on platforms made with the same earth of the surroundings that decline gently with the slope of the land. The compacted earth walls that seem to emerge from the sand between rocks and vegetation, support the structure of the roofs, giving privacy to the interior of the space and framing the view towards the sea.
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
Four monumental roofs define the ceiling that seems to levitate, generating separations and hierarchies in each part of the resulting spaces. Between the volumes, the different gardens and corridors are interwoven; leading to an inner central patio that converts the public area into the heart of the house, ending with a pool that intertwines with the horizon of the sea.
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto
image © Sandra Pereznieto Plan
Architect: Dellekamp Arquitectos | Derek Dellekamp & Jachen Schleich
Location: San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Project team: Alin Vázquez Wallach, Alejandro Aparicio Castillos, Benoist Rouel-Brax, Geoffroy Arnoux
Bioclimatic Design: Ecoestudio
Photographer: Sandra Pereznieto