Studio House on Chapálico Sea / ATELIER ARS

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Text description provided by the architects. Building a house for an urban geographer and expert on architecture and the city meant for us the opportunity to experiment with a certain way of approaching the architecture project. The site is located in La Floresta, a neighborhood from the mid-twentieth century built in the manner of a garden city next to Lake Chapala in Jalisco, which since long ago has been a retreat for many foreigners because of the mild climate. This neighborhood has two main features: the urban space is of great value because of the section of its streets and its interaction with the surrounding landscape - mountain and lake - and also because of the vegetation; however the architecture that has been built there is irrelevant since it has been made ​​from purely stylistic re-interpretations of the local tradition. Thus we proposed a project that was able to relate deeply with its natural and cultural environment even without direct views of Lake Chapala.