Casa Neblina by RED Arquitectos is a 2024 home in El Pescadero, Mexico, formed by the distinction between a guarded main facade and an expansive opening to cultivated floor. Throughout 114 sq. meters (1,227 sq. toes), the two-bedroom residence pairs a monolithic chukum envelope with terraces, an orchard, and a restored desert backyard cooled by Pacific breezes and completed with owner-built carpentry.
About Casa Neblina
Casa Neblina takes its identify from the saline mist that settles over El Pescadero at daybreak, briefly tempering the desert warmth. RED Arquitectos locations the 2024 home amongst orchards and palms, the place Pacific breezes attain a panorama cultivated by its house owners, Alyssa and Irving.
The 2-bedroom residence occupies 114 sq. meters (1,227 sq. toes) inside a 2,000-square-meter (21,528-square-foot) plot. Its pigmented chukum end provides the unified beige quantity a stony, monolithic presence. But the compact construction doesn’t provide equal openness on each aspect; a lot of its character comes from the distinction between enclosure and launch.
Two Contrasting Facades
The first elevation stays largely closed, interrupted by an higher opening that serves as a portal. A brick staircase climbs towards the rooftop, introducing a cloth now uncommon within the Todos Santos area. Brick additionally kinds a display, recalling a neighborhood constructing custom more and more displaced by concrete block development.
On the other aspect, the home opens towards the backyard and orchard. The kitchen and dwelling space lengthen onto out of doors terraces, connecting on a regular basis exercise with cultivated land fairly than treating the panorama as a distant backdrop. The shift from the guarded entrance to this broad opening provides the small home a transparent spatial rhythm.
Chukum, Sky, and Handcrafted Wooden
The pigmented shell strengthens the sense that the residence is shaped as a single piece. Skylights in each shared and personal areas carry the sky into the inside and reinforce the connection between enclosed rooms and the environment. Along with the open rear elevation, these overhead apertures soften the burden of the monolithic kind.
Each piece of cabinetry is designed and constructed by Alyssa and Irving. Their work provides the inside a private register throughout the restrained architectural envelope, extending the story of self-reliance that begins with the couple’s travels in a van they outfitted themselves.
Repairing and Cultivating the Land
The challenge begins with the removing of black agricultural plastic that contaminates the plot. Instead, the house owners set up a panorama of fruit timber, desert species, and ground-cover crops. The planting restores habitat and encourages native desert fauna to return whereas making cultivation a part of each day life.
The orchard grows from the start of the house owners’ time on the property, tying the terraces and shared rooms to their work exterior. Home and backyard function as one inhabited setting: protected by the dense chukum partitions, open to the sky above, and grounded in a panorama beneath energetic restore.
Images by Irving Torres Piedras
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– by Matt Watts
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