Amona House is located on an urban plot in San Cristóbal de las Casas, adjacent to the Cerrito de San Cristóbal — a wooded hill with public trails that serves as one of the city's primary green lungs. The project draws from the logic of the local urban fabric, maintaining a contained relationship to the street while opening inward toward the plot. Rather than privileging a single orientation, the house establishes layered spatial relationships where outward views coexist with internal ones, producing a spatial experience that shifts with level, use, and time of day.

With a total built area of 155 m², the house is organized over two levels as a stack of functionally independent units. The ground floor integrates living, dining, and kitchen into a continuous layout with a full bathroom. Its configuration anticipates reduced mobility: the living space can be reconfigured into a primary bedroom without architectural intervention. The upper level concentrates the private program — bedroom, study, and terrace — arranged around direct views toward the hill.

A separate 45 m² workshop expands the program with a flexible space for artistic work and family gatherings, including a secondary bedroom and bathroom for independent use. It opens onto a courtyard structured around a pre-existing ash tree, conceived as an urban microhabitat with local plant species and a pond for ex situ monitoring of endemic aquatic life.

Load-bearing walls combine concrete block and brick, with non-structural adobe infill. Lime-rendered walls, exposed brick, and clay tile floors extend across interior and exterior surfaces, emphasizing material clarity and long-term aging.

The project's name — Amona, Euskera for grandmother — names both the inhabitant and the design framework: a house conceived to accommodate domestic life, creative work, and multigenerational living.