Mexican architecture studio Weber Arquitectos has used grey volcanic stone to construct five cabins on a forested site in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
San Simon Cabins is a compound that comprises five individual structures including guest houses, a main lodge and a recreational building on a wooded site in the scenic Valle de Bravo region, which is west of Mexico City.

Weber Arquitectos separated the design into several structures as building a single house on the land would have required knocking down trees.
Staggering the individual volumes across the 5,000-square-metre site is intended to blend the architecture and landscape together.

"Instead of a large joint footprint that required the felling of several trees, the different cabins move between the gaps that naturally exist between the trees, also integrating them into the architecture at all times," the studio said.
The main residence and social cabin are rectangular in plan and constructed with grey volcanic stone. Windows of various sizes are scattered across their facades and fronted with wood lattice screens.
Each of the three guest accommodations has a slanted roof and is raised on a plinth formed by rectangular blocks of volcanic stone.

One of the cabins is a double-unit with a bedroom attached to either side of the shared bathroom in the building's centre, while the other two are standalone structures with one bedroom and bathroom each.
A covered terrace is situated under the roof at the front of each...