Casa CRA in Coyoacan, Mexico City Building Development, Mexican Architecture Images, Architect
Casa CRA in Coyoacan
24 July 2020
Casa CRA, Coyoacán, Ciudad de México
Design: Estudio MMX
Location: Avándaro, Estado de México, México

The CRA House is located within a residenial country club in Avándaro, Estado de México. The country club, like many others in Mexico, establishes general design criteria and suggests, with emphasis, the use of specific forms and materials. Given the mountain character of the site, the regulaton infers the need to preserve the rustic character of the place through architecture.

In most cases, regulatory constraints are real challenges that are solved through analysis and design. In this case, the design of the house proves a stylistic hybridization strategy, with the double purpose of giving continuity to the character of the whole, while at the same time articulating, in an alternative way, the different spaces and the program of the house.
Instead of geting perpendicular to the access, the whole house scroll turns to look for the best orientations and the best and widest views towards the sports field. When turning the limits and the perimeter walls of the house, they establish alternative relations towards the perimeter; Instead of an impassable fence, diagonal landscaped spaces are opened, which correct the conventional edge relationship between the land and the house. The same turn, allows articulating the closed and semi-enclosed...