Rain Harvest Home is a humble, tripartite home in the mountains west of Mexico City, designed in 2020 by Robert Hutchison Architecture.

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Rain Harvest Home (La Casa Que Cosecha Lluvia) is a humble, tripartite home in the mountains west of Mexico City that integrates with the landscape and the site?s natural cycles to offer an experiential connection to place. Living functions are dispersed into three porous wood buildings that sit gently in the landscape, with bathing and study dedicated to compact structures separate from the main living pavilion. The trio of buildings each collects rainwater, connecting to a reservoir and on-site treatment and storage system that supplies 100% of the home?s water year-round. Located near the town of Temascaltepec, the name of which is drawn from the pre-Hispanic ?temazcal? referring to bathhouses and sweat lodges, the home is a prototype for designing regeneratively with water in a place where it has become an increasingly scarce resource. The home is part of a progressive 450-acre development called La Reserva el Peñón which presents a new model for how communities can coexist with nature. Gathering 80 families, La Reserva implements regenerative design strategies to preserve and replenish the land, including a community water collection system that is 100% water autonomous. Each home in La Reserva is required to harvest rainwater to provide 60% of their water needs, with the neighborhood?s 15 reserv...