The commission of the house comes together with the explicit petition to use stone as the main construction material. The decision doesn't respond necessarily to esthetic reasons but more likely to its common existence in the place, its little need for maintenance and its low cost for built square meter. Such premises are taken as a project challenge both in a structural, typological and esthetic way.

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Architects: Cadaval & Solà-Morales

Location: Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico

Architects In Charge: Eduardo Cadaval & Clara Sola?-Morales

Area: 300.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Sandra Pereznieto

Collaborators: Eduardo Alegre, Orsi Maza, Alexandra Coppieters
Interior Design: Martha Perez

Landscape Design : Martha Perez

Structural Engineering: Ricardo Camacho de la fuente

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Site Plan

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From the architect. The commission of the house comes together with the explicit petition to use stone as the main construction material. The decision doesn't respond necessarily to esthetic reasons but more likely to its common existence in the place, its little need for maintenance and its low cost for built square meter. Such premises are taken as a project challenge both in a structural, typological and esthe...