CVT House Yucatan, Mexico
This house has been designed as a modern recreation of the old Mexican colonial mansions “casonas” and Haciendas, with a clean, contemporary language. Placed at a regular plot with a rounded side that follows the shape of a rotonda, the building is located in a private residential suburb of the capital city of Yucatan state.
This house has been designed as a modern recreation of the old Mexican colonial mansions “casonas” and Haciendas, with a clean, contemporary language. Placed at a regular plot with a rounded side that follows the shape of a rotonda, the building is located in a private residential suburb of the capital city of Yucatan state. The volumetric scheme involves an “U” shape building that features the social areas at the frontside, as well as the private areas besides, including the car port and services on one corner of the rounded side. At the rear, there is a social-private Pavilion that works as a “hinge” that encloses the open space around an open Patio, following an architectural typology that defines a significant part of the Mexican architecture and comes from the syncretism between the pre-Hispanic and European architecture from the XVI-XIX Centuries.
This implantation strategy allows the breeze to flow free along the compound. At the same time, all spaces can enjoy cross ventilation as well as the natural light necessary in order to minimize the need of air conditioning and artificial lighting with the resultant energy savings. It also makes possible to graduate the views into different scales of perception and privacy, so you can experience the whole in multiple ways.
Natural-local construction materials (Mexican marbles, subtropical hard wood, pasta tiles and concrete blocks produced locally) were chosen in contrast to industrial ones such the aluminum framing for the windows. The plaster that covers all exterior-interior walls is a pigmented mortar that the architects developed with a Mexican-global Cement Company. This company supplied the mix for a finish stucco with the color and strength properties required to avoid the use of coat painting in the future, a more sustainable alternative to reduce the need of maintenance in the hard weather conditions of the Yucatan peninsula.
