Concrete Courtyard House by 3ARCH // Mexico City.

Architects: 3ARCH
Location: Mexico
Year completed: 2014
Project Area: 3560m2
Photography: The Black Rabbit

Staircases descend around a courtyard hidden within the concrete house set into a steep rock face. The house, designed to feel as a den – a place of isolation, reflection and rest – is detached from the urban context and intertwined with the natural environment. Studio 3ARCH were approached by the client who asked for a home that had an “extreme relationship with nature”. As a result, the outer space never ends and interior space never begins. Materials participate in the process of relation to outer space – they are hard but adapt themselves, get older every day, change. The concrete walls isolate the dwellers from their neighbours and they frame the views; block boxes complement the spaces and services.

The architects describe the site as a series of design responses: a cliff, a tree, a stone wall and canyon are the main components of the project. Elegance, restrain and design rigour of this project result in pure minimalist love in me. Are you with me?

[Photography © The Black Rabbit.]