Smyth 139 is a modern two-story concrete house located in Merida, Mexico, designed in 2020 by R79.

Description
SMTYH139, it?s a project for a dear friend and his family, great promoters of our work, who have believed in us and increased our growth, as well encourage critical thinking in us.
It is located in a rectangular plot of land about 1,600m2 of surface (20m in front x 80m of depth) in front of a Golf Court in La Ceiba, a fully consolidated residential complex in the outskirt of the city on the highway that connects Merida with Progreso.
The two-storey house, becomes for us a new test of how to blur the relationship between the outside and the inside, of how to achieve a continuous space where the interior in a flash is transformed into the exterior and vice versa. The presence of vegetation in the place and the infinite view of the green court suggested to use for this occasion an uncommon tool in the design process, called ?cross section architecture? thanks to this tool it was decided that is better to look the tree tops than the trunks, and that being half a level above, the spatial perception of the exterior and its continuity and fluidity were enormously delighting. The scheme in plan divides the elongated lot into bands or stripes alternating the empty ones with the full ones: street, services, access, house, garden.
Facing the street, a large block with services, folds back a few meters to create a square for use and contemplation....