René Pérez Gómez designs concrete retreat in Mexican forest
Mexican architect René Pérez Gómez has completed Casa Amapa, a pared-back concrete house nestled in the Primavera forest near Guadalajara in Mexico.
The home has been designed to be a place for reflection and connection with nature, arranged around a series of existing trees to have as little impact on the woodland as possible.
Top: terraces surround the home. Above: the building was built into a hillside
Built into a hillside, the house steps downwards to create two levels: a lower one housing the living spaces and an open upper level of roof terraces, viewing platforms and a small garden.
Oriented to look down the slope, these terraces are shielded from the forest behind by high concrete walls.
The house was built around existing trees Access is via a doorway that sits behind a perforated brick screen.
"The platforms of the house are sites of coexistence, reflection and connection," said Pérez Gómez.
"Below them, the sanctuary is hidden, with an intimacy that is part of the forest as well."
It was constructed using concrete
Informed by "stereotomic" architecture ? meaning spaces formed by cutting and subtracting rather than adding ? the board-marked concrete walls of the home are treated as a found object.
Guadalajara-based Pérez Gómez said the effect is intended to make it look as though the walls "emerged from the Earth".
Open staircases connect these terraces to the living level, with a larger wing to the east housing a ...
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