Meztitla 住宅

Meztitla住宅

项目Meztitla住宅是对自然的干预，它展示了休闲的豪华价值，热带气候，强烈的阳光，自然的气味，500多年的景观梯田和一直存在的岩石山:埃尔特波兹特科。它本身就是环境。房子是用粗糙的石头建造的，低矮地匍匐在树下，与植被覆盖的石坡并排。它是在自然空间中创造纯粹空间，它有一个内向的生活方式，但不断地对它的环境开放，只有两个元素向外界展示了它的存在:从茂密的树叶中随意盛开的花朵，也限制着场地的周长；巨大的单片白色盒子从树梢浮现。

Casa Meztitla

Casa Meztitla is an intervention of a natural scenario. It showcases the luxurious value of leisure, the tropical weather, the intense sunlight, the smells of nature, the over 500 year-old landscaped terraces and the ever-present rock mountain: El Tepozteco. It is context in itself. The house, built out of rough stone, crawls low under the trees, aligned with the vegetated-covered stone slopes. It is the creation of pure space within the natural space (Paz, O., 1987). It has an introverted living yet is continually open to its surroundings. Only two elements reveal its existence to the outside world: the colorful bougainvillea flowers showing randomly through the trees’ dense foliage, which mark the plot’s perimeter; and the massive and monolithic white box that emerges through the treetops.

房子的布局

房子的布局分为四个区域，首先是社交区域，包括客厅和餐厅、开放式厨房和"门廊"，可以看到草地天井(项目中唯一的人工自然景观)，这是房子的中心，也是覆盖280立方米(61,591加仑)饮用水蓄水池的楼板。其次有一个服务区，包括一个烤架、一个厕所和一个淋浴房、洗衣房和储藏室；接下来是卧室区域（两个主房间和两个客房），所有这些房间都可以通过室外天井进入，两个主房间，在最边上，各有一个私人天井。工作室是第四个区域，位于二楼，通过房屋的露台屋顶进入，两边都有一对户外天井。

Layout

The house layout is divided in four areas: a Social area with the living and dining, an open kitchen, and ‘portico’ viewing the grass patio (the only artificially induced nature in the project) which is the centre of the house, and the floor slab for covering the potable water reservoir with a capacity of 280 m3 (61,591 gallons); a Service area sheltering a grill, a toilet and a shower room, laundry and storage area; the Room´s area (two main rooms and two guest rooms) all of them are accessed through outdoor patios, the two main rooms, on the far sides, have a private patio each. The Studio, which would be the fourth area –in a second floor-is accessed through the house terrace-roof, and is open on both sides to a pair of outdoor patios.

住宅的主题不是关于项目，而是室内外永不结束的关系:一个人没有办法从一个区域走到另一个区域，而不穿过室外空间;每个区域(除了服务区)都是对外开放的，这样人们穿过任何一扇门就能真正走出家门。该住宅喜欢通过不同类型的室外区域连接的一系列房间。最后，温和的亚热带气候被用作一个借口，不建造一个封闭的住宅，而是不断向自然环境开放，希望它将住宅、它的生活和自然联系在一起，形成一种共生关系。

The house´s theme is not about the program but the never ending relationship between indoors and outdoors: there is no way one can go from an area to another without walking through outdoor spaces; every area (except for services) is open to the exterior in a way that one can actually be out of the house by crossing any doors. The house works likes a series of rooms connected through diverse types of outdoor areas. At the end, the mild subtropical weather was used as an excuse for not building a house that closes to itself, but that continuously opens to the natural environment and hopefully, it will bond the house, its living and nature in a symbiotic relation.

Project:Casa Meztitla

Architecture: EDAA

Website:www.edaa.mx

Facebook: EDAA MX

IG: edaa.mx
Architect (partner) in charge: Luis Arturo García
Design team: Juan Hernández, Jahir Villanueva, Antonio Rivas, Ana Fernanda Rodríguez, Diego Ruiz Velazco
Construction team: Hans Álvarez, Yolibel Allende

Status: Constructed

Typology: Single house

Constructed Area: 4,300 sqf (400 m2)

Location: Tepoztlán, México

Photography: Yoshihiro Koitani, KUU Studio