La Extraviada is a beautiful vacation house located in Mazunte, Oaxaca, Mexico, designed in 2020 by Em-Estudio.

Description
“La Extraviada is a fish that turned into a dream that turned into a project that turned into a house overlooking the sea.”
Facing the Pacific Ocean, La Extraviada is built on the side of the hill in front of the quiet and majestic Mermejita beach, totally surrounded by nature.
La Extraviada is a house for vacationing in Mazunte, Oaxaca, where it is always hot. Under this premise, the house was designed considering the sea view and the cross-flow of air that keeps the spaces fresh. It is a project that does not fight against the nature of its context due to its proximity to the sea: the weather, the salt, the sun and the humidity, but uses it to its advantage, making it an essential part of the design. The house seeks to blend in with the hill, adapting to its topography, where the spaces are discovered as one goes up or down the mountain. The volumetry of the project arises from the superposition of volumes that resemble stones, which contain large wooden windows, which are projected one over the other, adapting to the slope of the land, generating terraces and overhangs that provide shade and let the wind flow, creating an image of stones that stand in balance on the hillside.
The access is through the top part of the plot, where the parking lot and the main entrance are located. To access the house, ...