In this project located in the Mexican Pacific Coast, the main challenge was to insert a house into a dramatic and lush natural environment, to conceive a house to live by and with the place. Understanding the site as the main driver, architecture serves as a medium that allows humans to coexist within our own ecosystem, fostering a symbiotic relationship among all organisms.
This architecture was to set relationships, not limits, and to propose an understanding of the environment as a whole within the human body. Rather than a house, we designed a platform that connects its inhabitants with nature, in an effort to make clear that we, as humans, are just a part of it, and that we have to find ways to coexist.
On arrival, the house disappears into the landscape, immersing you in a vertical descent though its central spine – a staircase that knits all elements of the house together. This descent allows humans to navigate the cliff where all the living spaces are tucked in. Endemic vegetation takes over the whole space, suggesting the possibilities of use of each area. Each room, carved into the cliffside and open to the exterior, caters to the specific species that once inhabited the area. These nature-reclaimed spaces extend onto roofs, terraces, hallways, and even certain covered interior areas.
At the base of the cliff lies the sea, the pool sits in between them. Here, one can realize that the natural landscapes merges with the human architecture intervention, forming a symbiotic connection.
