Mexican structure studio Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados has accomplished twin homes that mix concrete with glued-laminated timber within the forests of Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
The 2 homes – every measuring 500 sq. metres (5,382 sq. toes) – are collectively known as Rejas and had been designed for 2 brothers and their households, cohabitating on a 1.2-acre forested property in Avándaro, a few hours west of Mexico Metropolis.
“Avándaro is a panorama that’s been quietly overbuilt for many years, so the primary determination on Rejas was truly a renunciation,” Pablo Pérez Palacios, founding father of Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados (PPAA), informed Dezeen,
“As an alternative of designing a wall or a fence between the 2 brothers’ homes, we selected to regenerate the native forest that the location had partially misplaced, and let that stand because the boundary,” he stated, explainging that call set the tone for the remainder of the venture.
“The entire venture is actually an argument for constructing much less, so the panorama has room to ultimately reclaim the structure.”
The positioning, with its regenerated forest, is steeply sloped towards the Avándaro reservoir, permitting PPAA to partially submerge every home.
From the driveway, the homes seem as one-storey constructions, however the decrease ranges emerge on the opposite aspect because the terrain descends.
To navigate this, the homes sit on bases of concrete and native stone that anchor them into the slope, whereas timber roofs prime the higher ranges and open the areas to the encircling bushes.
The homes had been designed to work together with the panorama, and have virtually equivalent plans, although their place within the panorama differs.
Public areas are on the higher degree, with a kitchen, eating and lounge in a glass field throughout the bigger, rectangular platform.
A coated terrace contains the rest of the extent with designated seating and outside cooking areas which can be framed with planters.
Under, 5 bedrooms with ensuite bogs and a lounge space sit throughout the forest ground, cool and contained throughout the boxy quantity.
The stepped association of each flooring, in plan and part, additionally operates as a tool for privateness between the 2 homes, PPAA defined.
“The deliberate positioning of the openings eliminates any risk of going through home windows – no window in a single home appears towards the opposite. Every dwelling establishes its personal relationship with the pure environment as if the opposite didn’t exist.”
The studio pulled the service areas for each homes into separate buildings positioned alongside the sting of the property to free the centre of the plot for the homes and their relationships with the panorama.
Designed to patina with the panorama, the minimalist materials palette depends on stone and concrete to provide mass and solidity to the bottom and mass timber to be each the construction and spatial character of the higher degree.
The pairing permits the supplies to enrich each other, juxtaposing lightness and weight.
“This stress between the stone base that anchors and the glulam roof that liberates is neither an aesthetic operation nor a reference to any vernacular custom,” the studio stated.
“It’s a proposition about inhabit: what protects and what opens, what stays and what breathes, what belongs to the bottom and what belongs to the air.”
Lengthy recognized for concrete building like this subtractive home in Los Angeles, PPAA has been increasing just lately into mass timber design with initiatives like a rotating cross-laminated timber pavilion in Mexico Metropolis and Mexico’s first “all-wood” mass timber construction in Querétaro.
Challenge credit:
Structure: PPAA
Design Group: Pablo Pérez Palacios, Emilio Calvo, Miguel Vargas, Jonathan Reséndiz, Adriana Hernández
Interiors: Mariana Morales
Pictures by Fabián Martínez
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