Elías Rizo reinterprets vernacular Mexican cabin in concrete

Mexican studio Elías Rizo Arquitectos has balanced a concrete home with a steep gabled roof on a hillside in Tapalpa, Mexico close to Guadalajara.

Referred to as El Mirador, the 2023 home measures 230 sq. metres (2475 sq. ft) and serves as an “ode” to the positioning’s preexisting panorama.

“We wished to design a home that turned one with the panorama over time and permit time to erase the road between nature and structure,” Elías Rizo instructed Dezeen.

The home was positioned on essentially the most accessible level of a sloped terrain close to a pool fed by mountain runoff. It’s oriented in direction of a valley and the Colmia volcano.

With an oblong type, the house consists of clean concrete with a small overlap that creates a datum line between the 2 storeys.

Underneath the angle of the standing seam steel roof, which stretches outward alongside the ridgeline to type an rectangular diamond in plan, the concrete transitions to black wooden.

“Gabled roofs are used everywhere in the area’s vernacular structure – we solely modified its inclination and supplies to decrease the roof’s upkeep due to the tough accessibility of the positioning,” the group mentioned.

The window frames are made from weathering metal, which is able to oxidize and stain the outside partitions with an ochre patina – very like the colors of the home’s surrounding stone.

The lengthy entrance aspect of the home is solely glass, with a sequence of sliding doorways on the bottom stage. In the meantime, every of the brief sides is punctured by a single door and a small sq. window on the higher stage. The again of the home is stable concrete.

Two terrace areas – a flat entry platform and a entrance patio that steps down right into a sequence of benches – are composed of stone slates that had been discovered on web site.

On the inside, a module made from stable Rosa Morada wooden begins on the bottom flooring and extends up, housing all of the serving areas on the bottom flooring and the entire bedrooms on the highest flooring.

It divides the dwelling areas from the darkened staircase, which runs alongside the again of the plan as a “mysterious threshold inside the home”.

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Upstairs, a moveable wood field homes the bathe and might be opened on three sides to coexist with the bed room and views of the panorama or might be closed off for privateness.

“The undertaking is a daring reinterpretation of the area’s structure,” The group mentioned. “We used a lot of its parts however we remodeled them into a unique language.”

“Our undertaking could possibly be understood as a reinterpretation of the Mexican vernacular woods cabin or as its antithesis and we’re conscious and pleased with this duality.”

Different concrete homes just lately designed close to Guadalajara embrace a pared-back forest retreat by René Pérez Gómez and an inward-focused home with a metal framework by Arqueodigma Studio.

The pictures is by Fabian Martinez.