Casa Cal belongs to a coastal community of 8 houses in a coastal area near Puerto Escondido Oaxaca the mexican surf mecca. Six of these houses have ocean front and two are placed in a second row behind, at the beginning only the six ocean front houses were built and the other two were left in foundations and columns, the reason was that these two houses had the same design as the ocean front houses, so it was necessary a new design that considered the particular issues of this site.

© Edmund Sumner

Architects: BAAQ'

Location: Santa María Tonameca, Oaxaca, Mexico

Architect In Charge: J. Alfonso Quiñones

Area: 657.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016
Photographs: Edmund Sumner

Colaborators: Inca Gabriel Hernández, Guillermo Mauricio Baruch, Lucia Corredor Isita

Construction: Fernando Ramirez, Alejandro Sanjines

Interior Design: Lucia Corredor, Cecilia Tean -DECADA-

© Edmund Sumner

From the architect. Casa Cal belongs to a coastal community of 8 houses in a coastal area near Puerto Escondido Oaxaca the mexican surf mecca. Six of these houses have ocean front and two are placed in a second row behind, at the beginning only the six ocean front houses were built and the other two were left in foundations and columns, the reason was that these two houses had the sam...