This house was designed as a single-family home into a private-residential area in the suburbs of Merida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan. In order to achieve efficiency in cost-energy consumption, the layout arrangement of the spaces assures cross ventilation, optimal day-light as well as direct sun protection due a carefully sized openings in congruency with simple-detached volumes and façade-language. Materials and finished were selected in order to optimize also the need of intense care/maintenance of the construction due the strong climate conditions of severe heat and high humidity during most of the year. The footprint of the house was also intentionally reduced to about 40% of the land surface, giving as much area as possible for gardening as part of design strategies.

As a response to these conditions, the house features transitional spaces such covered-terraces in both floor and upper levels that provides different living spots according to the time of the day and season.

Natural, local materials were chosen for the project: Tropical hardwood, Mexican Marble and cement-based stucco with a natural sealant obtained from bark of the endemic tree Chukum was chosen for the pool´s interior walls. A polish-cement finish without pigment was also applied for all interior-exterior walls, providing a painting-maintenance free finish for the entire building.