Mexican structure studio RED Arquitectos has accomplished a cement-covered residence with screens manufactured from stones used for making ready meals on the shoreline of Cerritos, Mexico.
The 130-square metre Casa que Da was accomplished on a 2,000-square-metre property in Baja California Sur in Could 2023.
The city – positioned between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas within the foothills of the Sierra Laguna – was constructed to accommodate the rising tourism enterprise, however is characterised by the pink brick and smoke chimneys historically seen in buildings within the space, which has relied closely on mining up to now.
“Casa que Da is conceived as a pre-Hispanic codex, which expresses by its spatiality and iconography, the information of the earth and its materiality,” RED Arquitectos principal Susana López González advised Dezeen.
Designed for a pair from Austin, Texas – a surf-loving chef and his mountaineering spouse – the home has a relentless relationship with each the ocean and the mountains and the “geometric continuity of the work unfolds on its facades,” permitting the residents to work together with the panorama from each angle.
The home is organized in a C-shaped plan, opening towards an outside eating patio on the western facet shaded by giant wood beams.
This system progresses from the southwest public finish of the plan to the northwest personal areas, aligning the lounge, eating room and kitchen.
The bedrooms and loos are stacked on the other finish with home windows that look out east and west. The first suite cantilevers barely out from the perimeter of the inspiration with a glazed nook.
An exterior staircase – shaded by a black partition lattice manufactured from native purple rosewood – leads as much as a roof terrace with 360-degree views.
The home is constructed of concrete block, probably the most accessible materials within the space, and lined on each the outside and inside with naturally pigmented cement.
“Combined with the desert, Casa que Da prostrates soberly within the panorama,” the workforce mentioned, noting that the cement type makes the home seem as a “monolithic sculpture” whereas controlling “the thermal sensation within the face of the extreme warmth”.
The facade on the dwelling has a characteristic display composed of nixtamal – corn millstones used to crush corn into flour for tortillas. The stones have been positioned at different locations alongside the facade to create shading parts.
The shopper named the home Casa que Da (Home that Offers) to reference the act of “giving” in a culinary context.
The combination of the nixtamal was impressed by the shopper’s culinary expertise and created a sample of daylight and shadow.
The bands of orange-coloured millstones are divided by a central column of rounded stones.
Within the inside, giant sliding glass doorways are framed in black steel and look out to the encompassing desert.
RED Arquitectos beforehand accomplished Casa Calafia, an earth-toned concrete home with arched doorways and home windows close by in Todos Santos, and Casa Numa, a residence wrapped in a coconut palm display on the Yucatán Peninsula.
The pictures is by Miguel Ángel Vázquez Calanchini.
Challenge credit:
Architect: Susana López González, RED Arquitectos
Collaborators: Arch. Angelica Azamar Villegas
Lighting design: Miguel Calanchini
Building: Ing. Rogelio Rojas Castro
Structural engineering: Ing. Apolinar Sánchez
