Under the cliffs of Tepozteco emerges LL House, where its monoliths settle as if the weathered stones of the hill had been sculpted to inhabit them. The geometric composition of the house responds to a fragmentation of prisms that join and separate to shape its internal spaces. They come together to create amplitude and disperse to retreat into sol...
Location
Tepoztlán, Morelos, México
Photography
Mariana Achach
Design team
RA! (Cristóbal Ramírez de Aguilar, Pedro Ramírez de Aguilar, Santiago Sierra, Daniel Martínez, Lourdes Gamez.)
Collaborators
Daniel Martinez, Lourdes Gamez
Built area
481m² interior + 719m² exterior
Civil engineer
Daniel Manzanares
Structural engineer
Daniel Manzanares
Environmental & MEP
Antonio Villarreal
Lighting
Eduardo Martinez
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Adobe Photoshop
Typology
Residential › House
The overlapping blueprints converse among themselves from their fragmentation with the hill, opening up and integrating with the landscape. The central structure supports the geometric skin of the snake, and its windows allow us to glimpse the depths of human consciousness.
Location
Cuaquiahuac, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
Principal architect
Marco Arredondo
Material
Steel Structure, Glass, Concrete and Wood Structure
Client
Christian Vazquez / Actor
Typology
Residential › House
Just one hour south of Mexico City, the town of Tepoztlán is located within a valley with a pleasant, temperate climate and nestled within three rock formations, including El Tepozteco. These geographic and climatic conditions produce constant and abundant vegetation; it brims with a diversity of flora, and shelters both mountain and subtropical sp...
Project name
La Hacienda Jardín
Architecture firm
Práctica Arquitectura
Location
Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
Photography
César Béjar, Oscar Hernández
Principal architect
David Martínez Ramos
Design team
José Flores Buzo, Eduardo Sosa, Andrés Dillon
Collaborators
Texts: Pablo Goldin, David Martínez
Structural engineer
L atelier – Julien Pinon
Landscape
David Martínez Ramos
Lighting
David Martínez Ramos
Typology
Residential › House
The Barcelona and Mexico city based architecture studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales has designed "MA house" that located at 60 Km from Mexico City, Tepoztlán, México.
Project description by the architects:
The commission of the house comes together with the explicit petition to use stone as the mai...
