The first thing you see as you approach Casa Volta are three brick vaults floating amidst the dense vegetation of the Oaxacan coast. Perhaps a mirage caused by the profuse and humid heat of the area. Then, following a small path, one submerges in the vegetation and the vaults disappear.
Architecture firm
Ambrosi Etchegaray
Location
Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photography
Jaime Navarro, Sergio López
Principal architect
Jorge Ambrosi, Gabriela Etchegaray
Design team
Ivo Martins, Santiago Bonilla
Typology
Residential › House
Located in La Punta Zicatela, at the southernmost point of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Casa TO is a boutique hotel that crystalizes a genuine experience of contemplative hospitality with a vision of environmental consciousness and social responsibility. The project, by the renowned architect Ludwig Godefroy, was developed under the watchword of simpl...
Architecture firm
Ludwig Godefroy
Location
La Punta Zicatela, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photography
Jaime Navarro
Principal architect
Ludwig Godefroy
Design team
Surreal Estate
Interior design
Daniel Cinta
Landscape
Gisela Kenigsberg and Daniel Cinta
Material
Concrete, steel, clay, and wood
Typology
Hospitality › Boutique Hotel
This remodeling project is in Mexico City. It was a complex project, since it was a total remodeling, in which a change of finishes, kitchen, bathrooms, carpentry furniture, ceilings, floors, walls etc. was made, in addition to a complete interior design.
Project name
Las Haciendas, Casa 5
Architecture firm
PRH Arch & Design
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Photography
Jaime Navarro
Principal architect
Paulina Rosales
Design team
Paulina Rosales
Typology
Residential › House
The transformation from a residential space to a corporate one. The project located in one of the most important neighborhoods of Mexico City. When touring the house, we analyze the benefits of the area and the concept of sustainability by merging them we create a concept of Circular Economy where the space was transformed for the use of different...
Project name
Offices Tornel Laboratorios
Architecture firm
WTF Arquitectos (We Think Further Arquitectos)
Location
Mexico City, Mexico
Photography
Jaime Navarro
Principal architect
Sinhué Vera, Adrián Herrera
Construction
W3+EspacioPoligonal
Typology
Commercial › Office
Located in the Condesa neighborhood on Nuevo León avenue. The project consists of the remodeling of a two-level restaurant whose main objective was to redefine the image of the place and organize the existing architectural program.
Project name
Green Grass Condesa Restaurant
Architecture firm
Taller David Dana
Location
Col. Hipodromo Condesa, Mexico City
Photography
Jaime Navarro
Principal architect
David Dana
Design team
David Dana Cohen, Nicolás Quintana
Interior design
Taller David Dana
Collaborators
Nicolas Quintana, José de la Cruz, Martin Cruz, Marco Angeles
Construction
Taller David Dana
Lighting
Taller David Dana
Material
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Tools used
AutoCAD, SketchUp
The Mexico city-based architectural firm Rojkind Arquitectos has recently completed Amanali House a weekend retreat that located in Tepeji del Rio, Hidalgo, Mexico.
Project description by the architects:
Amanali House is located 40 minutes north of Mexico City in a residential development near...
