Saint Peter House is a unique brick house located in San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, designed in 2019 by Proyecto Cafeína.

Description
Designed from the philosophy of participatory design low tech high customization, this house is conceived from the bricks, a material widely used in San Pedro Cholula region in an ancestral way from the knowledge of the local workforce in the construction system. Through the collaboration between workers, architects and the client, a house of high sophistication is achieved through plasticity.
One of the most relevant architectural design factors arises precisely from the workers and is precisely the possibility of housing growth in the medium or long term, leaving preparations in structure and facilities to be able to house other spaces as it goes growing the family or its purchasing power. Also leaving the possibility of progresivity of the project, so that the client himself can build and explore other materials, textures or colors in the composition of the future architecture. It is an example of the creative potential that exists through the relationship between workers, managers and clients in an inclusive, equitable and diverse setting where the parties actively intervene in the architectural process providing autonomy, resilience and well-being. The main skin of the house has 3 formats for accommodating the bricks; double wall, lattice and spike from where its expressiveness starts, which are distributed in a func...