这座房子是为一个成长中的家庭设计的,它提出了一种围绕着与它所处的景观持续对话的居住形式。黝黑的外表赋予了它坚实的身躯,同时也让人联想到在岩层内部雕刻房屋的可能性。某些形式上的姿态补充了这一暗示,比如房屋体量的分割暗示了裂缝的形式,或者窗户零星地出现在墙的不同部分,但有一个平衡的节奏。此外,内部参观提出了一个变化的光和影的游戏,路径开放和关闭,收紧和拓宽,流向开放空间,确保新鲜空气和隐私。

Envisioned for a growing family, the house proposes a form of dwelling organized around a continuous dialogue with the landscape in which it is located. The dark exterior grants it a solid stature, while simultaneously evoking the possibility of a home carved in the interior of a rock formation. Certain formal gestures complement this suggestion, like the sectioning of the house’s volumes that hints at the form of a crack, or the windows that appear sporadically, yet with a balanced rhythm, in different parts of the wall. Furthermore, the tour inside proposes a game of changing lights and shadows, with paths that open and close, tighten and widen, and flow into open spaces that secure both fresh air and privacy.

梯田和窗户允许与环绕地面的大量植被进行不断的对话。在房子的生态系统中,植物成为主角,建立了一种类似于苔藓或棕榈树与岩石之间相互同意的共生关系。在室内,不同大小和形状的窗户成为框住自然元素的开口,邀请观众思考绿色的颜色,并将光线洒向所有的生活空间。同时,这些窗户混淆了分隔室内和室外的门槛,产生了一种扩张的感觉。在外面,一旦观众克服了围绕和隐藏建筑的植物,就像树干底部丢失的宝库一样,窗户提供了转瞬即逝的生活瞥见,如果只是一堆关于那里每天发生的事情的建议。到了晚上,这栋黑房子消失在黑暗中。剩下的是一些小的光隙,揭示了一系列琐碎的画面。

Terraces and windows allow for an evolving conversation with the ample vegetation that surrounds the grounds. In the house’s ecosystem, plants become protagonists, establishing a symbiotic relationship similar to the one mutually agreed upon between the moss or the amate tree with the rock. Inside, the differently sized and shaped windows become openings that frame natural elements, invite the viewer to contemplate the green color, and shed light on all living spaces. At the same time, these windows confuse the threshold that separates the interior and exterior, generating an expanding sensation. Outside, once that the viewer overcomes the plants that surround and hide the building like a lost treasure trove at the bottom of a trunk, windows offer fleeting glimpses of life, if only a bunch of suggestions of what happens there every day. At night, the black house disappears into the darkness. What remains are small gaps of light revealing a series of quotidian pictures.

如果从外面看,墙壁的岩石色调和树叶的绿色很突出,那么在里面,木材则获得了重要的特征。它出现在横梁、书架、壁橱或家具中,这些家具将成为家庭生活的一部分:椅子、桌子、床、门。除了温暖的地方,木材的使用建立了与景观的另一种对话。松树再一次表明,土地应该提供一个固定在领土上的耐用住宅的钥匙。它的浅色调与外部的黑色、植被的绿色和框架的红色一起,成为最明显的颜色。最后一种颜色,即红色的离散存在,提供了一种与花相似的引人注目的对比,试图找到一种能够与周围环境融为一体的平衡色调。

If seen from the outside, the walls’ rocky tone and the foliage’s green stand out, inside it is wood which acquires an important character. It shows up in beams, in bookshelves, in closets, or in the furniture where the home’s day-to-day will develop: the chair, the table, the bed, the door. Besides warming up the place, the use of wood establishes yet another conversation with the landscape. Pine tree suggests once more that it is the land that should offer the key to a durable dwelling anchored in the territory. Its lightened tone joins the exterior’s black, the vegetation’s green, and the frames’ red as the most visible colors. The discrete presence of the last of them, the red, offers a striking contrast not unlike that of a flower, in an attempt to find a balanced color palette capable of melting with its surroundings.

这个地方提出了一种建立在领土的特点、条件和资源上的居住理念。同样,建筑在这里被认为是允许时间在建筑区域内发挥作用的方式:植物会生长,墙壁会变得潮湿和长满青苔,体积会越来越多地与景观相一致。它规定了一种建筑哲学,在房子开始居住的时候,工作并没有结束(它只是开始)。

The place proposes an idea of dwelling founded upon the characteristics, conditions, and resources of the territory. Similarly, architecture is thought of here in such a way that it can allow for time to do its work over the constructed area: plants will grow, walls will become humid and mossy, the volume will identify more and more with its landscape. It lays down a philosophy of construction in which the work does not conclude (it only begins) at the point in which the house begins to live.

Architects: Lopez Gonzalez Studio
Area: 528 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: César Béjar Studio, Rodrigo Chapa
Lead Architect: José Pedro López González
Design And Construction Team:José Pedro López González, Jesús Arturo López González, Ricardo Alejandro Sánchez Hernández, Iván Benítez Posadas
Structural Engineer:Juan Hernández Del Carmen
Model:Taller Cuatro Cuartos
Country:Mexico