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CASA MEZTITLA BY EDAA IS IN HARMONY WITH NATURE

A holiday home that playfully contrasts volcanic stone with sleek glass

Casa Meztitla, a holiday house created by young Mexican architecture practice EDAA, sits at the foot of the sacred El Tepozteco Mountain near the town of Tepoztlán in rural central Mexico. Designed with the outdoors and contextual harmony in mind, the house was intended as a couple’s leisure retreat. Wide rotating glass doors open up to welcome nature into the house, while natural stone allows the concrete structure to blend with the craggy backdrop.

According to EDAA head architect Luis Arturo Garcia, the house is divided into four distinct zones: social spaces which consist of living, kitchen and dining areas leading out to the portico and garden, a service zone off the central courtyard containing a toilet, shower room, laundry area, storage and a grill for alfresco dining, four bedrooms with their own patios, and a work/living studio space above that allows access to the roof terraces formed by the floor below.

Covering just 400 sqm of a 3,800 sqm site, the house allows guests to enjoy large sections of garden and benefit from an environmentally friendly storm water harvesting system. Storm water is collected in the wet season, purified and stored in two separate containers – a potable reservoir that sits beneath the central courtyard and a maintenance reservoir situated farther from the house. Recycled greywater is used not only for flushing toilets, gardening, and cleaning, but for the benefit of local wildlife in the difficult drought season.

CASA MEZTITLA BY EDAA IS IN HARMONY WITH NATURE

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  • Mexico
  • EDAA