Our Dream is a modern brick house located in Oxaca City, Mexico, designed in 2021 by Espacio 18 Arquitectura.

Description
A retired American couple, dropped everything to fulfill their long life dream of living in Oaxaca, a city they fell in love with and chose to be their ultimate destination.
Elizabeth and Ray, through diversified coincidences, decided to pursuit a 300m2 land at the city limits in Oaxaca, in this small town named San Sebastián Tutla, where they would build their dream house, the one they had worked their entire lives for, and the one they dreamed since their first visits to Mexico. Not only they would adapt to a new culture and an entirely different society, but they would change their whole way of living. Their last residence before moving down to Oaxaca, was in New Mexico, USA which is known for its majestic skies and extreme weather. They lived in a very peaceful neighborhood. Our workshop had the biggest responsibility on showing this retired couple to learn how to live this whole new and different life the way they had never done before, accepting new typologies, new materiales, and to embrace the interior, all these because of the zone and adjacent constructions.
Elizabeth and Ray are outgoing social people, being part of a community and especially being loved by it is something easy for them, they are invested of what happens in their surroundings, but mostly in what they can offer to their local community, they come to c...