Mexico City's Rojkind Arquitectos has designed a weekend home near a lakeside town in Mexico to comprise five prismatic volumes covered in dark stone.
The property called Amanali is located in a residential development near the town of Tepeji del Rio, which translates as boulders on the river. With mild weather and access to water sports, it is a popular weekend retreat for those living in Mexico City and the state Quere?taro.

Rojkind Arquitectos designed the recently photographed house, which was completed in 2013, to draw on the site's climate. The functions are separated into five blocks, described by the firm as "boulders" that are connected by walkways, steps and bridges outside.

"The house was conceived as weekend retreat for outdoor living with no clear boundaries between inside and outside," said the firm, which was founded by architect Michel Rojkind. "Rather than stepping out of the home to the garden, the garden becomes part of the house and vice versa."

The ground-level pathways step down the site to connect the higher level street down towards to a swimming pool. "The house is gradually discovered as one descends from street level through the intimate alley that gives the complex a medieval hill-town feel," the firm added.

Dark porous stone sourced locally covers the bodies of the five volumes, which have dramatic shapes composed of irregular floor plans and sloped tops. Each has a concrete band that wraps around the ...