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Peña Blanca by DCPP Arquitectos
Mexican studio DCPP Arquitectos have designed a home in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, where four roofs slope up from the forest floor.
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Called PEÑA BLANCA the buildings will be located in a wooded area to provide privacy and have been designed to accommodate three members of one family, each inhabiting one wedge-shaped house, with the fourth used as a communal space.
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The structures will comprise a sloping roof with the apex at ground level, two vertical walls on either side and a glass facade at the front.
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The following information is from the architects:
PROJECT: DCPP arquitectos (Pablo Pérez Palacios, Alfonso de la Concha Rojas)
PEÑA BLANCA is a project for a country house to be used by three members of a family with the need of privacy. It’s located in a 10,000-m2 plot with a changing topology as well as mountain climate conditions.
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The concept comes from the idea of the house as a shelter with an architecture that not only intervenes but it integrates with the natural environment.
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The house was conceived as three independent blocks and a forth one that holds the common areas and serves as a complement for the three independent houses.
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The idea of separating the house in modules was conceived to achieve a lower intervention in the natural surroundings as well as giving privacy and independence to each of the modules.
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Each of the modules is located in the ground responding to the views and orientations and at the same time they create a sense of unity, the position of the blocks defines the open common areas as well as the circulations.
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The module integrates with the natural environment through two vertical walls that work as an incision in the landscape with a sloped roof that touches the grounds and melts with it.
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Project: PEÑA BLANCA
Location: Valle de Bravo, Edo. México
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Fecha: 2010
Sq. meters: 460 m2
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