Vancouver-based design firm Campos Studio has created a sculptural white house with a large cantilever on the rocky coastline of Los Zacatitos to celebrate both the sea and the sky in Baja California, Mexico.
When Campos Studio first visited the 1,780 square metre (19,160 square foot) site, the team was reminded of a quote by French poet Victor Hugo: "There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky."
Campos Studio designed a cliff-side house in Mexico
The team designed the 407-square metre (4380-square foot) house as a series of nodes that emphasized the anchoring desert on one side of the house, the ocean's horizon on the other and the expansive sky above ? creating moments to experience the sight, sound, and scent of each environment. The house presents itself in three vertical bands ? a heavy, white concrete base set into the rocks, a transparent, glazed ground floor that is shaded by a deep overhang and a pristine blocky upper floor. Meanwhile, the floorplan is split in half with a "central circulation spine that bisects the program," the team told Dezeen.
It has blocky white volumes set on top of a glass one
The sleeping spaces are located on the upper level and are divided between the primary suite and guest quarters across the central stairs.
"The bedrooms on the upper volume catch the offshore morning breezes as they flow through the courtyards and the onshore evening winds, allowing one to experience both the desert and the oce...