Casa Cañadas: Angular Mexican Home Sparkles in the Sunlight
When your goal is to blend a home into a landscape, using natural materials just seems like an obvious choice. But for Casa Cañadas by RE+D Arquitectos, artistry was even more important. Designed for a forested hillside in Zapopan, Mexico, the home takes materials and shapes more commonly associated with industrial settings and transmutes them into a series of reflective crystalline shards that almost disappear into the sky.
The clients wanted to preserve the aspects of the site that felt special, like its rocky terrain, tall trees, and breathtaking views. So the architects created an unusual floor plan that avoids removing any existing trees, arranging triangular volumes to fit in between and around them. These volumes are offset from each other, gently flowing in a stack from the elevated street level down the slope of the hillside. Most importantly, the layout leaves a central private garden around which the living spaces are arranged, allowing sunlight to reach every room.
The structural base of the home consists of concrete textured to resemble the natural boulders and a steel framework that seems to shift from white to silver depending on the light. In between the polished concrete floors and the elongated triangular shapes of the roof panels are floor-to-ceiling expanses of glass, frosted in some areas for privacy and transparent in others. The glass reflects the silhouettes of the surrounding trees and the color of the sky.
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