Project: House in Avándaro
Architects: Taller Héctor Barroso
Location: Valle De Bravo, Mexico
Area: 10,064 sf
Year: 2019
Photographs by: César Béjar
House in Avandaro by Taller Héctor Barroso
Taller Héctor Barroso has completed the House in Avandaro – a stunning 10,000 square foot dwelling made up of four dispersed volumes in Mexico’s Valle de Bravo.
Four volumes are dispersed over a flat site surrounded by the natural forest of Valle de Bravo. Each volume has a different orientation- in accordance to its program- and articulates with the rest through a central void, a water pool that reflects the surrounding pine trees.
A succession of columns grants rhythm to the house leading to porticos that generate transitions between different scales and atmospheres. In these transitional spaces one can saunter, admire the context, and observe the materials from which the house is built. In these intersections between volumes, a different rhythm, composed by narrow wooden lattices, grants privacy and a sense of intimacy.
The balance between materials – mud brick, oak wood and soil- and its vernacular building processes bind this country house in harmony with its context though an architecture that dialogues and understands its environment.
