两年两个月零两天，作家亨利-戴维-梭罗住在他自己在马萨诸塞州瓦尔登湖（Walden Pond）建造的一个小木屋里，这是他童年的小镇。在大约3米×4.5米的湖边空间里，他把自己发展成一个与社会隔绝的个体，寻找自然及其起源的灵感。他在小木屋的时间，让他重视什么是真正必要的，以及对生命本身的尊重，这导致他在生命的最后时刻，把自己改造成一个人，并为社会议题而奋斗。这意味着，蟾蜍进入池塘时和离开池塘时是不同的，这很有趣。
Two years two months and two days, the writer Henry David Thoreau lived in a cabin which he built himself in Walden Pond, Massachusetts, his childhood town. In just about a space of 3 m x 4.5 meters lakeside, he developed himself as an individual isolated from society looking for inspiration of the natural and its origins. His time at the cabin, let him valued what it’s really necessary and the respect of life itself which leads him to renovate himself as a human and fight on social subjects at the end of his life. This means it’s funny how the toad is different when it enters than when it leaves the pond.
La casa del Sapo开始通过建筑的姿态来满足一个项目的需求，反映在环境、社区和我们传递给后代的行动结果中。这是一个在想建之前就已经发展得很好的项目，一个通过标志和直觉落地的项目，它一点一点地打开了门，在应该团结的人们之间建立了桥梁。
La casa del Sapo started to satisfy a program of needs through an architectural posture that reflects in the context, community, and in results of actions we are passing to our future generations. It’s a project that’s grown tremendously even years before it was even thought of being built, A project that landed through signs and intuitions, which little by little opened doors and built bridges between people that ought to be united.
La casa del Sapo是每个人的家，它已经成为一个聚会，Sapo是联盟，一个家庭的家，一个庇护所，一个包容的空间，一个安全的空间，一个休息的家，一所学校，一个孩子们可以学习如何游泳的地方，他们可以把海龟送进大海，一个果园，一个吃喝梅斯卡尔酒的地方，一个朋友的地方，一个成长的地方，Pau和Mario的家… 当你对一个地方表示出应有的尊重时，从告诉社区你要做什么的那一刻起，它就会拥抱你，这必须是对等的。
La casa del Sapo is everyone’s house, it has become a gathering, Sapo is union, a family home, a shelter, an inclusive space, a safe space, a rest home, a school, a place where children can learn how to swim, where they can send turtles into the ocean, an orchard, a place to eat and drink mezcal, a place for friends, a place to grow, Pau and Mario’s home… When you get to show the kind of respect that a place deserves, from that very moment of telling the community what are you going to do, it embraces you, which has to be reciprocal.
房子是由这个地方本身设计的，”两块石头看着大海，渴望着它的永恒”，第一块石头看着日出，另一块石头看着太阳下山，它们之间的间距显示了大海，瓦克萨卡的美丽，并为住在里面的人创造了灵活的空间，他们将以自己的个人方式采用它。
The house was designed by the place itself, “two stones looking at the sea, craving for its timelessness”, the first one looks for the sunrise and the other one for the sun to go down, where the spacing between them shows the sea, the beauty of the costa Oaxaqueña, and creates flexible space for the one living in it, who will adopt it in its own personal way of being.
材料的选择是为了人们和他们自己的建筑技能，就像他们被认为是生态和社会友好的。在建筑过程中，有些事情完全由工人决定，因为我们都必须经历大流行病。在这个过程中，每个人都凭借自己的智慧和意愿来完成每一步。这是一个参与人数令人惊讶的项目，其中一些人，因为一种病毒而被高度记住，并表示赞赏。
The materials were chosen for the people and their own skills for construction, just as they were thought out to be ecological and socially friendly. In the building process, some things were left entirely to the decision of the workers as a result of the pandemic that we all had to go through., where everyone came through on their own wisdom and willingness during every single step in the process. This is a project where the number of people involved is surprising, some of them, highly remember with appreciation because of one virus.
La casa del Sapo是一个给予和改变的项目，它让你环顾四周，让你有意愿去提供并成为其社区的一部分。Zapotengo是一个与你形影不离的天堂，它定位在你的记忆中，永远不会离开，它只是池塘中的另一块石头，就像Zumthor说的 这是一个像许多其他项目会来的项目，因为现在，人们真正地环顾四周。
La casa del Sapo is a project that gives and transforms, it makes you look around and gives you the will to provide and be part of its community. Zapotengo is a paradise that sticks with you, it locates in your memory and never leaves, it’s just another rock in the pond, like Zumthor says It’s a project like many others will come because now, people truly look around.
Architects: Espacio 18 Arquitectura
Area : 130 m²
Year : 2021
Photographs :Onnis Luque, Fabian Martinez
Manufacturers : Cemex, Interceramic, Tecnolite
Lead Architects : Carla Osorio Jimenez, Mario Alberto Ávila López, Sonia Morales, Andrea Rodriguez, Arantza Toledo
Interior Design : Mario Fernandez, Paulina chagoya, Espacio 18 Arquitectura
Builders : Victor Chagoya, Mario Fernandez, Paulina Chagoya, Freddy, Mariela, Candido, Jorge, Cruz Hernández, Jesús Hernández, Coco, Espacio 18 Arquitectura
Engineering : José Luis Contreras Pisson
Landscape : Fernandez, Paulina Chagoya
Carpentry : Mario Fernandez, Paulina chagoya, Espacio 18 Arquitectura
Country : Mexico