Casa Zirahuén is a holiday house located in a small town of Michoacán in Mexico. From de heights of the hills, the project rests amongs the site?s vegetation. The lake of Zirahuén is to the west, directing all the project?s views towards it. The main goal of Casa Zirahuen?s design was to recreate and reinterpretate the mexican cabin, not only by retaking volumetric aspects but also in vernacular constructive techniques.

Description by Taller de Arquitectura y Diseño
We made coatings on interiors and facade walls with site?s clay soils named ?charanda? and ?topure?. The arrangement of the stone in the masonry walls of Casa Zirahuén was inspired by the stone fences that delimit the land in the towns that we see throughout the state. The two way inclined concrete slabs cover the interior spaces and extend outward to create shelters also on the outside.
The house is divided into 4 cabins, the largest contains the social program; living and dining room, the copper kitchen, a stairway to a lookout in the rooftop and a cellar area in its basement. The other 3 cabins, house the private program in its first and attics plants, all three of them are connected through hallways on the ground floor and small bridges in the attics plant. Two of the private cabins have a basement floor with a lake view, a bar and a gym with jacuzzi.
The 3 cabins are disarticulated from the main cabin to create a central courtyard, an important meeting point in the project. The dec...