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The Chacala House was a rest house which includes the social areas and master bedroom on the ground floor overlooking the sea, four bedrooms to accommodate a family in each, and service areas. A huge fig tree, a palm tree and visual openings to the sea were the conditioning for the house.
Courtesy of CoA Arquitectura , Estudio Macías Peredo – Photographs : Onnis Luque, Jaime Sicilia
The palm serves to confine a courtyard entrance where vegetation dialogues with the apparent structure, they welcome and announce what will be the theme of the whole house: a grid of columns and beams like an skeleton that modulate, order, delimit and qualify the different spaces.
Courtesy of CoA Arquitectura , Estudio Macías Peredo – Photographs : Onnis Luque, Jaime Sicilia The main enclosure conforms a palapa that houses open living and dining room, adjoining a pool that serves the auction house, which dilutes its border with the ocean horizon is located.
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The palapa is complemented on one side by a patio deck on the axis marked by the fig tree, which is followed by another backyard that introduces light and vegetation to the family room area. The bedroom is located at the beginning of the same axis, and through the sequence of courtyards, you also enjoy the scenery without losing your privacy.
Courtesy of CoA Arquitectura , Estudio Macías Peredo –...