丨墨西哥丨Valdezarqs

Architects:Valdezarqs

Area:478m²

Year:2024

Photographs:Raul Hernández

Manufacturers:Cemex,Helvex,Interceramic

Lead Architects:Jorge Antonio Valdez Z, Jorge Carlos Valdez M

Category:Houses

Lead Team:Jorge Carlos Valdez M, Jorge Antonio Valdez Z

Engineering And Consulting > Lighting:Yamil Slim

City:San Cristóbal de las Casas

Country:Mexico

Text description provided by the architects. On the outskirts of San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the misty forest of Huitepec, the house emerges from the landscape as another natural element. Its presence implies a convergence with the essence of the site, becoming a symbol and language of protection, a gesture of safeguarding the identity of the place. It is not a foreign object, but a fragment of the mountain, a inhabited sculpture that breathes with the same cadence as the forest. Its shape does not seek to impose itself, but to coexist; following the slope as one draws a dialogue with the earth. It only cements what is necessary, allowing the mountain to maintain its pulse.

A suspended bridge marks the transition between the everyday and the interior, a threshold of silence, a pause before the refuge. At the base, the services are sheltered in the cold of the underground; above, the half-levels accompany the natural ascent of the terrain and reveal the forest from different heights, the foliage, the branches, the canopies open to the sky.

Its skin, made of the same earth that saw it born and of fired clay shaped by local hands, breathes with the humidity and holds the warmth of the inner fire. Casa La Sierra is constructed contemplation, a pause of brick and earth where geometry and the mountain recognize each other, and to inhabit is also to listen, to look, and to remain.

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