Architects: Jorge Hernandez de la Garza
Location: Oaxtepec, Mexico
Design team: Carlos Rubio Martinez
Project Year: 2007
Furniture: Gandiablasco By Designet
Art: Victor Reyes
Sculptures: Alfonso Magaña
Photographs: Paul Czitrom
This house is located in a residential area of Oaxtepec, a place of exceptional natural beauty. It is contiguous to the north with the hill of Tepozteco and to the south with a highway that conduces to Haciendas de Yautepec. The lot is oriented to the northeast with a splendid sight of the Tepozteco. The natural light is filtered trough the folds of the house in shape of rays that softly flood the spaces. Reflects and shadows on walls and ceilings animate the interior.
The shape responds to the hard hotness of the site, to place every space in the best way inside of a curved skin that opens to the immediate context to obtain the best climate and views to allow the wind circulate in a way that in summer the house can stay cool. The topography presents a unevenness that was approached for the pool to stay at streets level letting the rest of the house uprooted midlevel. The organization takes place in a clear division in the horizontal direction of the house locating in the ground floor the public and recreation areas and in the high floor the dormitories connected with the lower floor by an inner-outer circulation.
The different habitable spaces fit in a transparent area that makes its continuity with the exterior by the concrete floor that extends to the open areas, allowing to the users to move in a fluid space without obstacles.
On its front sight appears slender with a great sense of lightness like being conformed by one only volume floating over the living and dining room, this sensation change along the points of perspective, when the planes conform volumes and empty spaces, result of a formal experiment rationally controlled.
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very nice and simple..
i like the pool so much
Totally agree, It has a quiet yet expressive style of it’s own. Nice.
a simple minimalistic project following the rule of minimum of the minimum
like the ideas to treat the climate and views,like the changing sight along the points of perspective in front,but i think the disposal to landform is mainly the result of private need
Exceptional house with a beautiful natural environment to boot!
This house was designed by gerardo broissin
I worked in JHG and I can tell you thats not true.
Hey Carlos , how can this be true if the house is a project of 2007 when george is in a partnership with Gerardo Broissin? or its only because you and george doest want to give any credit to the other achitect
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I think that is a place with peace.
Congratulations to the architec and desing team “Jorge Hernández and Carlos Rubio”
pure!
The only thing that is misssing is a George Segal sculpture of all-white people. How I detest minimal thinking when applied to architecture!