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Valle House / DAFdf arquitectura Y urbanismo

Valentina Díaz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

In the upper part of the town of Valle de Bravo, Casa Valle is built on a terrain with irregular topography and complex polygonal features. After a steep ascent, vertical planes of glass, steel, and wood emerge between pine trunks. Above them, a concrete platform projects in front of the tree canopies, hovering over a rocky slope with its vegetation.

House in Avándaro / ESTUDIO Ignacio Urquiza Ana Paula de Alba

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000

In the forests of Avándaro, this house is located on a slope of dense vegetation and a steep topography that directs rainwater toward the adjacent stream.

Ananda House / PPAA

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Located in the wooded landscape of Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Ananda is a vacation home designed for a family, redefining the concept of space by blurring the boundaries between public and private areas. The terrace, which becomes the central axis of the project, acts as an architectural element that not only divides but also connects the different spaces.

Ocote House / PPAA

Valentina Díaz — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Located in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, Casa Ocote is conceived as a peaceful retreat for two friends and their families—where shared living and privacy coexist in balance. The design proposes a layout that encourages connection in the common areas while ensuring intimacy in the private spaces.

House Between Two Rivers / Taller 3000

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000

You arrive from above, descending a ridge between two rivers. The ridge is cut by three walls, one receives you. The other two hide the program: one the living space, the kitchen, the chit chat and the idle day; the other, further down, the bedrooms, small courtyards, beyond the windows trees loom. Stair over stair, a crooked column, humid concrete, a garden.

Frondal House / Taller MRD

Andreas Luco — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

A site of 10,000 m2 surrounded by long-lived pines, abundant nature, and a flowing river that crosses through the middle of it. The project consists of the distribution of 6 country houses that coexist with no greater division than the vegetation and topography that surrounds them. The land located in the Avándaro area has two clear fronts and roads, featuring very rugged topographies and, in other cases, more consistent ones, as well as very diverse visits between each one.

Las Rocas / ESTUDIO Ignacio Urquiza Ana Paula de Alba

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Las Rocas is a complex of four houses in the northern part of Valle de Bravo, known as La Peña. This elevated terrain has outcrops and endemic vegetation. The 6,400-m2 site was treated as an extension of the adjacent natural reserve, and the project seeks to respect and regenerate this environment.

Copas House / PPAA

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Located in Valle de Bravo, Copas is a project born from the understanding and respect for the nature that inhabits the place. Its main intention was to create an open upper floor that connects directly with the surrounding treetops, elements that give the essence to the project and create the atmospheres and views throughout the house.

Equestrian San Ramón / Módica Ledezma

Clara Ott — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Equestrian San Ramón is a space immersed in the forest of Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, designed by the Módica Ledezma office. The design intentions focused on leaning towards materiality that exalts simplicity, providing a geometric order that sought to benefit from the natural environment to solve an equestrian program within a set with different correctly articulated functions.

Noah House / Cadaval Estudio

Valeria Silva — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The NOAH House is located in Valle de Bravo, an area of forest and mountains 2 hours away from Mexico City. This small town of rustic houses and rainy weather is a popular destination for outdoor activities such as boating on the lake, hiking in the surrounding forests, and paragliding, attracting many weekend visitors in search of adventures in this environment.

Valley Expansion House / Studio Heya

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 15:00:00 +0000

“Ampliación Valle" project is located in Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, Mexico, and is distinguished by its original French-style chalet house, built in 1965, set in a natural environment overlooking a golf course. The original house is known for its gabled roofs, wooden construction, and circular columns.

Zarzales House / PPAA

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0000

The Zarzales project is a vacation home located in Valle de Bravo surrounded by nature. It is ideal to return to the most basic and works as a rest space connected with the natural environment, with pine trees around the perimeter that allow the project to be lost within its surroundings.

Tiny House / Weber Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Tiny house is conceived as a rest house, with a limited time and budget for construction, for which the work had the challenge of being carried out over a few weeks, this was possible thanks to the modulation of the design and the precast structure.

Casa FS / Weber Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The collection of four volumes dispersed on a plot surrounded by the Valle de Bravo forest creates a house that focuses on the use of natural materials, with an emphasis on volumes with simple and clean lines. These volumes are simple and sober, creating a timeless and enduring space. Each volume responds to a different program, articulated through the different terraces and paths that make up the project. The square shape of these volumes opens up through openings that are rhythmically repeated, following a rigorous modulation that creates views towards all directions of the property.

Aguacates House / Francisco Pardo Arquitecto

Agustina Coulleri — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 03:00:00 +0000

A couple of hours outside of Mexico City, the rural lake town of Valle de Bravo sits in a valley between mountains, offering perennially agreeable weather and panoramic nature views. Within it, the site for Casa Aguacates — a residential project meant to function as a weekend retreat, and designed by architect Francisco Pardo — is a peculiar one, in which an avocado field slopes down into a dense forest and glen.

Valle Santana / Manuel Cervantes Estudio

Clara Ott — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Valle Santana is a project with a careful insertion on the site and its surroundings, its initial design guidelines were to take advantage of the proportion of the lot and a free zone on the property. Using one of the existing trees as the center of the access courtyard, the social area of the house is generated, as well as the connection with the bedrooms and service areas, providing open views of the forest that surrounds the house from all living spaces.

La Lomita Retreat / ASPJ Arquitectura, Paisaje y Territorio

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 06:00:00 +0000

The starting point of the project is to create a local alternative with an identity and an intention of being replicable in areas with similar climatic conditions, conceived in the interaction with various community organizations such as the RED del Renacer del Campo, the Flor y Canto School and the rural families of the area. It reflects the desire to build locally and to connect with our origins and beliefs, since locality is also familiarity.

Casa Colorada / Once Once Arquitectura

Clara Ott — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Valle de Bravo is a resting place for the weekends surrounded by a lake, oak and pine forests and rivers. It is a perfect place for all kinds of outdoor activities, such as hiking, mountain bike tours and paragliding. Casa Colorada is located within this privileged environment, on a hill that borders the Monte Alto Reserve, taking advantage of the benefit of full views of the lake and the town.