#vernacular-reinterpretation

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Casa Alicia is a 200 m² contemporary, bioclimatic reinterpretation of vernacular architecture in Comitan de Dominguez, designed as Airbnb accommodation and completed in 2024.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 months ago

mature trees and patios shape domestic life in mexican residence by estudio villagalvez

Casa Gálvez by Estudio Villagálvez stands at the edge of a dense residential and industrial neighborhood in León, Mexico, where the city unexpectedly meets a strip of greenery. This adjacency defines the identity of the residence that opens toward a communal landscape of mature trees, including a flamboyant (Delonix regia) and a eucalyptus, integrating them into its composition and framing them as thresholds, companions, and internal landscapes.
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