![Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao - Door](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a81/97ee/f197/ccb0/b700/0101/newsletter/23_RG846c_1540.jpg?1518442468)
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Architects: Tatiana Bilbao
- Area: 480 m²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:Rory Gardiner
![Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao - Door, Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a81/97cf/f197/ccb0/b700/0100/newsletter/21_RG846c_1759.jpg?1518442437)
Text description provided by the architects. The site of Los Terrenos is nearby Casa Ventura is located in a residential zone adjacent to the southwest side of Monterrey, it’s a highland forested zone. The housing program is fragmented according to each component’s function and role within the site, but they are all enclosed in a perfect square in the general plan. Each volume located in the corners, surrounding an organic shaped pool.
![Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao - Table, Beam](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a81/974b/f197/ccb0/b700/00fa/newsletter/06_RG846c_0914.jpg?1518442306)
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![Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao - Glass, Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a81/9766/f197/ccb0/b700/00fb/newsletter/09_RG846c_0937.jpg?1518442332)
The landscape strategy aimed to respond and mimic the existing ora and fauna of the site in a designed aspect. The social area is on the rest level, within a mirrored glass envelope that simultaneously reflects and contains the lush surrounding; the main room overlooks the treetops; the other bedrooms are underground and built with clay and rammed earth in relation to the topography.
![Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao - Forest](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a81/9732/f197/ccb0/b700/00f9/newsletter/04_RG846c_0661.jpg?1518442277)
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![Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a81/980f/f197/cce4/3f00/0131/newsletter/26_RG846c_1915.jpg?1518442500)
The three program areas have a lattice that was designed to adapt according to different spatial connections and structural possibilities: it works as a solid and permeable door, screen partition, and structural wall, and as a semi-open wall that allows ventilation and sunlight bathing the interior spaces.
![Los Terrenos / Tatiana Bilbao - Image 15 of 22](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5a81/9759/f197/cce4/3f00/012d/medium_jpg/08_RG846c_0966.jpg?1518442319)
Originally published on February 13, 2018.