Mexican studio Zozaya Arquitectos has designed a concrete seaside home outlined by a chilled water characteristic on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Named Casa Mateo, Zozaya Arquitectos (ZAR) accomplished the 488-square metre residence in Zihuatanejo in 2022.
The house is positioned on one of many highest peaks of the Punta Garrabo improvement, giving it views of the adjoining ocean and surrounding jungle panorama.
“The shopper wished a really minimal and clear design home from the start however with out shedding the vernacular and conventional structure,” ZAR director Daniel Zozaya advised Dezeen.
“We have been additionally impressed by conventional Japanese structure in some design options.”
A sloped street leads as much as the property, the place an out of doors staircase flanked by stone weeping partitions opens to the central courtyard and first rectangular reflecting pool, oriented perpendicular to the ocean.
The home consists of two rectangular concrete kinds with broad roof planes.
The personal zone with three bedrooms and loos is to the left of the doorway, which is characterised by a coffee-coloured parota wooden display and a cotton fisherman’s internet hanging rope.
To the appropriate of the doorway – denoted by a floor-to-ceiling sliding glass wall and white deep sea coral sculptures – are the social areas.
“I wished to carry little fragments from the habitat into the inside design by fastidiously curated objects,” Zozaya stated.
Native stone partitions, metal accents and Volcani ground tiles create a monotone gray palette in the lounge, eating room, and kitchen areas that open onto the terrace.
A chrome steel pergola with native tree branches and polycarbonate offers shade for the big grilling space subsequent to a sunken seating area.
The first ensuite opens onto an infinity pool with a two-sided waterfall edge that appears out towards the ocean. The pool was constructed round a pre-existing tree.
The supplies have been chosen based mostly on high quality, native availability and longevity, whereas the tones “coexist organically with the pure atmosphere.”
“The water options play a very vital function in the home as a result of they create the zen mode and ambiance and divide the social with personal areas,” Zozaya stated, noting using water to evoke calmness.
“The challenge resumes passive bioclimatic methods by cross air flow in numerous areas, adapting to the seashore state of affairs of the world,” the studio stated.
“Inexperienced roofs have been applied, with the thought of mimicking the encircling vegetation, decreasing paved surfaces, in addition to producing thermal consolation contained in the residence.”
Based in 1986 on the Mexican Pacific coast, ZAR is thought for its residential seaside tasks. Lately, the studio accomplished a cliffside residence with a thatched roof construction and a vacation residence with a bamboo display – each in Zihuatanejo.
The pictures is by Cesar Belio.
Venture credit:
Architect in cost: Daniel Zozaya Valdés
Design workforce: Enrique Zozaya, Saddam Otero, Jesus Lopez, Luis Alonso, José Antonio Vázquez, Ana Karen Cadena
Inside designer: Sara Campos
