Architects:Taller Estilo Arquitectura

Area :144 m²

Year :2020

Photographs :Tamara Uribe

Manufacturers :  Sika, Cemex, American Standard, Carpintería Linares, Comex, Mosaicos La Peninsular, Tecnolite, URREA, VitrumSika

Lead Architect :Víctor Alejandro Cruz Domínguez, Iván Atahualpa Hernández Salazar, Luís Armando Estrada Aguilar

Construction : Juan Diaz Cab, Luis Esteban Alonso Carrillo

Structure : Juan Diaz Cab

Collaborators : Silvia Cuitún Coronado, Ana Karen Domínguez Peniche, Zahid Quintal Polanco

City : Mérida

Country : Mexico

The concept and name of the project El Nido stands for nest and comes from the Latin word nidus. The term refers to the shelter that birds build with branches, straws and other elements. Just as they make their nests, the goal of this house was to achieve a refuge to be inhabited and enjoyed without major complications, creating a project of great simplicity yet of great spatial richness by using a minimal and simple palette of materials.

Casa El Nido is built on a lot of 4.70 x 26.00 meters as a response to the needs of the users to have a space where experiences and ideas are generated, weaving together a pre-existing building with a completely new one, creating a suture with an empty space, giving the new building the prominence as a great protective envelope for the inhabitants.