The house is located south of the Mérida Historic Center In Yucatan. It is displayed on a particular land proportions: 70 meters long by 8 meters wide. This proportion was right to the project designed by the Office Ludwig Godefroy Architecture.
«The close proportion of the land Create a strong escape point effect entering the site. The project responds to this perspective Crossing it from side to side, materializing it with the water that guides it everywhere through the house, ”explained the office located in Mexico City.
The elements of the house are made in particular, wood and stone.Rory Gardiner
Internal and exterior relationship
Called house in coconuts, construction seeks «a strong sense of interiority abroad.» In that sense, the role played by the garden is vital, which was thought to give the feeling of embrace the inhabitants of the house Already each of the environments that make up the program. In fact, the central pavilion of being, which is a social part of the house, Flete on this widely open garden. As a consequence, The light and breeze are traveling through the house.
«This search for simplicity is carrying the design towards a clean and abstract architecture.»Rory Gardiner
The house was thought «as an open central agora that connects all private spaces with each other.»Rory Gardiner
The architectural project itself consists of A series of fragmented pavilionsinspired by the Pre -Hispanic architecture and organized around a water mirror and a pool, as revealed by the architect Ludwig Godefroy. Two pavilions of bedrooms with their private gardens They are located on both sides of this perspective, in order to create a great protected void in the center.
And it is that house in coconuts is structured around its negative empty space. Here, The void acquires as much importance as the built space. There is a poetic of walls that are not touchedof thresholds on different scale, of steps and flat or staggered volumes that refer to this pre -Columbian look as much as The best brutalist architecturethat the architect has already raised with special sensitivity in previous projects.