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Project: TDA House
Architects: Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Location: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Project Architects: Eduardo Cadaval & Clara Solà-Morales
Collaborator: Eugenio Eraña Lagos
Structural Engineer: Ricardo Camacho De La Fuente
Construction Management: Marcial Burgos & Hugo López Solano
Services: José Antonio Lino
Area: 350 sq m
Photography: Santiago Garcés and Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Spanish practice Cadavel & Solà-Morales has designed a house for extreme temperatures in Mexico
The aim:
To construct a house for extreme weather conditions which would be a place of comfort for the city-dweller.To construct a low-cost house that requires minimum maintenance; a house for any number of residents that facilitates a wide range of uses and configurations; a house that can open up completely to the exterior or close in on itself.
The materials:
High temperatures and access to an unskilled labour force meant the practice decided that the house should be constructed using concrete.The house, with its pronounced cantilevers, tries to push the limit of the structural and tectonic qualities of the building material, but above all tries to adapt the house to the specific location conditions.
Three elements are defined for three different conditions.The first is a tower volume which is interrupted at strategic points to achieve complete openness with nothing blocking views over the Mexican Pacific Ocean.The second element is a bedroom volume suspended over the water and the wild flowers of the garden; and the third is a wide, high, fresh central space which distributes the different possible activities in the house.These three elements merge into a single volume of uncertain scale and rough textures.
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