Close to the Pacific Ocean near the Mexican town of Puerto Escondido, the architecture studio S-AR designs a modular house designed to seamlessly permeate the natural landscape. Its raw concrete nucleus is the combination of four square modules, each of which corresponds to a room such as living room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Beyond the perimeter of the house, an external grid of essential concrete colonnades outlines a succession of patios that extend the living area, renewing the opportunities for outdoor living and merging with the vegetation.
A house fusing with nature in Puerto Escondido
A suburban refuge between forest and ocean, the Cosmos House designed by S-AR develops from a hypergeometric plant that dilates its spaces and senses towards the surrounding natural elements.
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
photo Camila Cossío, Claudio Sodi
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- Giulia Zappa
- 27 October 2020
- Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Messico
- S-AR
- 100 sqm
- Single-family house
- 2019
An external spiral staircase therefore offers access to the equipped roof. A contemplative space, the solar pavement offers a single glimpse of the forest and ocean, and opens up to the experience of the night space. A basin of water positioned in the center of the plant, in fact, is designed to reflect the stars at night, allowing a close encounter with the sky.
Besides being a modular device, the reticular architecture enhances the anti-sismic structural resistance. The exclusive use of local, low mantainance materials - cement and macuil wood, endogenous plant of southern Mexico, also used for fixed and mobile furniture - is a guarantee of durability over time and has allowed to work with local operators. The wooden curtain that delimits the living nucleus not only offers itself as a barrier for privacy, but also inserts an additional temporal key in the architecture, welcoming the signs of time that progressively affect the surfaces.
- Residenza unifamiliare
- Puerto Escondido, Mexico
- S-AR
- César Guerrero, Ana Cecilia Garza
- María Sevilla, Carlos Morales, Luis Fernando De la Garza
- 100 sqm
- CM Ingeniería
- José Ramírez
- Fermín Pérez
- Ubaldo Ríos
- Mario Ramírez
- S-AR, Aránzazu de Ariño, Claudio Sodi
- S-AR, Aránzazu de Ariño, Claudio Sodi
- Patricio Sodi, Claudio Sodi, Aránzazu de Ariño, S-AR
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